I've been using Duolingo to casually learn French. I also used school method (setup classroom with one email id and enrolled using another) to avoid ads, limited hearts, and leaderboards.

However, Duolingo has started showing ads and limiting hearts since last month for me. I checked reddit and seems like they've been rolling out these changes since last 3 months or so.

So I'd like to know what are the alternatives available for Duolingo?

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[–] Litebit 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

You can try a combination of different resources. don't do too many at one time, 1-3 is enough, depending on your interest and learning style and schedule.

I would exhaust the free and cheap resources first, like Tv5monde, CI stuff, language transfer and some basic grammar. Use ANKI or whatever other flashcard app to go through 1k high frequency words to build up vocab.

Get yourself up to being able to read your first book and listen to your first podcast (innerfrench). After that, you can focus a lot on practice by consuming content.

Remember the goal is to start using/practicing the language not duolingo/grammar/anki the language but USE the language which is read/write/listen/speak. :-

Duome - free
ANKI - free flashcard app. If you like it get the refold 1k deck or community deck.
TV5monde - Free
LeFrançais Facile avec RFI - Free
Tex's french grammar Free
Closemaster
Busuu
Morpheem - Free, this is a cool concept using AI try it.
Lingua $9.9/year cheap for what you get. Reading, Listening, Dictation, Grammar, Vocab
Lingolia Paid (grammar) or Kwiziq (expensive)
LinQ for reading and listening (paid)
Linguno - Free simple games.
Free4talk - free. Practice speaking with others.
LanguageTransfer free
InnerFrench (free podcast) Keep trying to be able to understand him.
AliceAyel (youtube) free + paid(site) CI very easy to understand stories
French CI easy CI.
Speakly (paid) strong focus on listening and flashcard style.
NewsinSlowFrench
Refold document has a list of CI resources
StoryListening
Hyplern - graded interlinear books.
Graded reader on amazon/kindle.
Grammar book on amazon/kindle.
Discord French-Learn French in a friendly community - resources and voice channel to participate
Discord Refold - French - more resources and community.