Ideally offline and either Android or Linux. Just looking to see what's out there and I didn't see much yet besides some dictionary or DIY flashcard apps

Thanks!

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[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Op:

[–] comfydecal@infosec.pub 1 points 4 months ago

Thanks for the reminder!

[–] TheSun 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

No need to DIY, Anki has tons of flash cards packs to download for free for any language.

Anki + downloading ready made vocab packs is a nice tool in the toolbox. Wont teach you a language on its own but good for increasing your vocab.

[–] DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

+1 for anki. I struggled for years to find anything decent for Swahili and there is more content for Swahili than I got out of Duolingo. One thing I didn't know about anki until i tried it because I didn't see anyone mention it, the flashcards can include pictures/videos/audio.

[–] comfydecal@infosec.pub 3 points 4 months ago

Of course, open source communities are awesome and provide! Thanks for the tip, will check the prefilled flashcards out

[–] comfydecal@infosec.pub 3 points 4 months ago

Of course, open source communities are awesome and provide! Thanks for the tip, will check the prefilled flashcards out

[–] Ludrol@szmer.info 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Anki for vocab
Textbook for grammar
Immersion for everything else

Also input and output are two different skills.

[–] makeasnek@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

One option is to ask open source language models to make lessons/quizzes/etc for you

[–] comfydecal@infosec.pub 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Do you find local models fast enough or accurate enough? I find their grammar to be inaccurate too frequently

[–] makeasnek@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

tbh I haven't played around w them much so idk

[–] anzo@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not offline but self-hosting available , there's LinguaCafe it's like book reading web app with tons of niceties. I am yet to try it for myself.

[–] comfydecal@infosec.pub 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the tip! I wonder if it could self hosted locally on a LAN?

[–] anzo@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

Yes. I believe all self-hosting apps are like that. As an example, I have a docker container running Searxng and I use it locally on my PC as default search engine. Just keep in mind that docker compose port mapping (e.g. "3000:80") attaches to all available IPs unless you specify it like "127.0.0.1:3000:80".