im re-visiting learning Spanish in my spare time and am working with Babbel, LingoDeer and a pretty good independent site morpheem (https://morpheem.org/) that has the heaviest use of AI of all three. I didn't even consider duolingo as LingoDeer is generally better in the "cutesy gamified language learning" space.
Curious if you have tried (or heard of) spanishdictionary.com? I work on it, and our users seem to like it and find it effective. The name is a bit misleading—started out as a dictionary but now has a full curriculum up through a couple years of college Spanish. We don’t really do any paid marketing (or any other kind for that matter) so I’m always curious about whether people have heard of it.
I use spanishdictionary.com (both the app and website) all the time for when I forget a word or conjugation, I really like it for that. The fact that when I type in a word in either language and hit enter, it goes straight to the page for the definition and translation to the other language is great UX (i.e. not dumping me to a search results screen, or making me toggle between languages)
I think it got me to try out a lesson a while back but it felt kinda half-baked and I never continued further.
My biggest issue with the site/app is the constant splash-screens/pop-up modals that take over the app/website to try and get me to upgrade. I get you guys want to funnel people towards the subscription, but being nagged daily when I'm just trying to look up a word is not making me more likely to bite.
If you tried the lessons more than a couple years ago, it may be worth revisiting. I hear you about the marketing stuff. FWIW, if you create an account (totally free, no CC needed or anything like that), you will see less of it.
I will try it. From my other comments you can gather I'm a sad lifelong monolinguist despite having a terrific Spanish foundation in middle school, and I can hardly imagine ever being conversational. But it's only been a week
Someone mentioned on r/DuoLingo so I installed in order to try it. My biggest problem with it was the UI and lack of options to configure it. I would really like options to make fonts and buttons bigger. Altough I changed phone font size in order to use app, small height of buttons on the bottom are really getting on my nerves.
