Is there any open-source project that serves the same purpose of Duolingo that can be self-hosted?

Or perhaps a self-hosteable webapp i could add the words myself from curated sources on the internet to then do quizzes on it?

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jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de · 39 pts · 1y (3 replies)

25 or so years ago, I learnt Esperanto (my first second language) by chatting on the Internet. I'd have two windows open - one with the IRC client, and the other with a terminal and a shell script that would grep a txt file with consistent formatting. "esp esperantoVerbPrefix/" or "esp noun," or "esp affix-" would typically return the correct result in a split second. Thanks to the simple grammar (that I had quickly memorized), I could hold conversations in near real time as a result.

I wish I could have learnt my other languages as easily.

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slym@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Mi estas lerni espéranto kun duolingo ekde unu kaj duono kaj me ne estas tre bona .

jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Ha, mia samideano! Tre bon'!

slym@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 1y

Dankon, mi provas.

PetteriPano@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 1y

Inspired by xkcd's thing explainer I generated a list of how often words appeared in subtitles on opensubtitles for my target language.

I whipped those into a database, added manual translation for the top-1000 and started quizzing myself with a tiny php script.

It was more fun to code than to actually quiz myself. I think I played the top-100 before I got bored.

decisoft@lemm.ee · 23 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Maybe something like this?

https://github.com/simjanos-dev/LinguaCafe

thelittleblackbird@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

This is the answer

metaballism@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 1y

+1 for LinguaCafe. It's amazing, it replaces another proprietary app called LingQ

jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de · 21 pts · 1y (6 replies)

Anki ?

Kalkaline@leminal.space · 3 pts · 1y (5 replies)

Anki is amazing, but it's not self hosted without some effort.

BenchpressMuyDebil@szmer.info · 13 pts · 1y (4 replies)

https://github.com/LuckyTurtleDev/docker-images/tree/main/dockerfiles/anki

start with env var sync_user1=username:password or something like that

change server url in anki desktop or ankidroid to what you started in docker

done

Kalkaline@leminal.space · 2 pts · 1y (3 replies)

That seems pretty straightforward if you have experience with that stuff, I don't have that experience.

oxomoxo@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1y

bruhduh@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y

This is how experience gained if you don't have mentor, the only way to gain experience in that case is FAFO

Anivia@feddit.org · 8 pts · 1y

Then maybe you aren't qualified to call something difficult to self-host, because those instructions are very basic

stringere@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Not self-hosted but Language Transfer is pretty awesome.
https://www.languagetransfer.org/app

mmhmm@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

This is cool. Thanks.

stringere@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y

Welcome!

laxryn@slrpnk.net · 9 pts · 1y

Not self hosted but look at your local library, I am in the US and my library has Mango Languages for free, and Duolingo does not seem to be the recommended way to really learn a new language.

themaninblack@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y

I made a PHP-based one a while ago before Duolingo offered Swahili. It probably needs a little upgrading, ha. A cool project and you can do it for most things. Oh plus it’s raw PHP so snappy as heck you youngins. https://github.com/ryanchausse/githeri

modest_bunny@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y

anki has a self hostable sync server, i am hosting it right now and works very well

pugsnroses77@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y
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