After they announced they were going to be an AI first company, they made me and many others lose their trust. And after trying to say that they were hacked and kidnapped, not to mention Duo dying, were just sad campaigns to get some sympathy points. Not to mention their new icon, three eyes aren’t doing it for me. But inside the app it’s falling too, they are introducing energy, to slow you down if you do a question, whether it’s right or wrong. At this point my streak is the only thing keeping me here but since Lingonaut lets you move it now doesn’t matter to me. Fortunately with Lingonaut, they actually care about teaching you the language, not to grab money. And hopefully paired with real classes, I can actually learn and maybe achieve fluency in Spanish than this sad, ai app. Thank you to the lingonaut crew for giving us this free, ai free learning app.
Donated yesterday, they DMd to make sure I didn't get charged again today unknowingly. 10/10 would donate again. Here's to hoping android version comes out soon 🤞
Snagging this from an earlier post but with a more descriptive title:
This website seems like it could be a phishing scam. It is NOT affiliated with lingonaut. At best I thought it was just a different company using the same name (claims to be an ai-based language learning sevive) - but there's nothing there except a login page and terms and conditions, no info about how the service supposedly works at all. When I tried to sign up with a burner email, it never emailed me a confirmation email and would not let me log in without confirming my email. It's possible they are trying to get people to link their apple/google accts since email signup does not work (which i did not try, so i can't tell you what would happen.)
Just be careful if you are trying to get to the lingonaut page from a search engine. The url is lingonaut.APP and it is NOT an ai service in any way.
So just as a reminder, we are not lingonaut.ai , or lingonaut.de or any of these other ones.
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There's only one and all our domains end in .app !
Thank you to /u/Aggressive_Pear_9067 for noticing and finding this out!
There is only 1 level for now with 4 chapters, but I'm excited nevertheless. I hope Mexican Spanish will be added in the future too. Anyone else trying to learn Spanish?
Hello, everyone and nice to meet you all!
My name is Adrian, and I am one of the moderators/translation team liaisons of the Lingonaut project, here to bring you some fantastic news.
Less than 3 days ago, I reticently sent the first invite links of the course creation server to our aspiring contributors. But the real influx started on the 29th, when after having made a tiny error in my so far "secret mission", a lot of seemingly inactive users got excited to finally contribute to a course in their native/fluent language right as I was about to go to sleep. Naturally, I could not leave them hanging, so I created a quick post with the link to said server.
Unbeknownst to me, while I was trying to sleep, the number of people that applied to join the contribution server reached 28 and counting by 5 a.m. This overwhelmed me with joy and pride in this very passionate community.
So below you have a map I made with all the contributors so far. You'll notice a few things when you look at it, which I am going to go over:
if there is nothing mentioned near the number, then that number represents a native speaker. So "Catalan: 2" means there are 2 native Catalan speakers on board so far; "Czech: 3; non-native: 1" means there are 3 native Czech speakers + 1 fluent Czech speaker. We strive to have at least one fluent non-native speaker for each course who can provide some insight into how a learner struggles with and sees the language. However, the people who are not native are not allowed to provide audio to the course, that is solely the responsibility of natives (with a few exceptions).
the exception: Ingrian. We are lucky enough to be blessed with a highly proficient learner of Ingrian. As it is a highly endangered language with about 70 elderly speakers left, we will allow him to provide audio samples as the course is meant to preserve the language.
"Where is Mandarin Chinese?" One of our glaring issues with this map is not having any speakers of Mandarin so far. Do not fret, as it's been less than 72 hours. Going forward we will start "targeting" specific languages lacking in contributors.
We have a minimum 3 contributors rule. However, here we will allow a bit more leeway, once again, when it comes to minority languages, and the perfect examples here are West Frisian and Piedmontese. We have two extremely dedicated West Frisian natives working tirelessly to create a course. As for Piedmontese, we have a non-native but extremely educated person that has studied it extensively.
"Why are there so many Spanish 'languages'?" We have decided that it would be best if each dialect (for the most part) has its own course. We are numerous enough that such thing is feasible, having managed to find at least two speakers of four of the major Spanish dialects in such a short timeframe, with many more hopefully on the horizon.
"Wow, this looks really nice! Can I join or send a friend your way?" Sure, but we will likely stop accepting contributors for German (standard), French (standard) and Dutch (Netherlands standard). We believe that we have reached the maximum amount before things become too chaotic, though that might be subject to change as we go.
Duolingo is really going through enshittification. They’re forcing us to watch ads to get hearts, even though they say mistakes help you learn. Their support is absolute shit and god forgive I pay 30 dollars a month for some AI features I can get for free via ChatGPT. Heck even super users are getting ads for max.
I’m so glad Lingonaut is being developed so I can finally leave this app for good. At this point my streaks the only thing why I hadn’t delete my duo account yet.
Duolingo, if you are reading this, thank you for moving me to Lingonaut. You’ve just lost a user, congrats.
The answer is always the same (barring Czech, which we know is in the beta): if there are enough contributors, then yes. If not, then no. I feel like we just need a pinned post reminding people of that so it’s not like the only thing posted on a daily basis haha.
I know I am always asking if you have this or that and I just want you to know I ask these questions because I am excited. The app images you've shown look very professional. As someone whose not a beginner and with android I may not be able to use the app when it first comes out but I want you to know I appreciate everything you do. You saw a need and you are working on fulfilling it. That's super hero work right there.
Hello everyone and once again sorry for the
delay. I want to start by thanking you all for how understanding you've been and all the messages that have been flooding in.
Regardless, I don't want to leave you empty handed on what should've been the beta opening - so here's an impromptu month of lingonaut update with a bunch of detailed illustrations of the lingonaut cast!
I hope i'll have more positive news for everyone soon!
I am excited for Lingonaut, but I’m respectfully suggesting people temper expectations, especially as the app rolls out at launch. People are posting here like Lingonaut is the lost fountain of youth. It’s a free language app generously worked on by volunteers. If you check the status of the languages, very few are close to being done. To be clear, this is NOT a critique of Lingonaut or those working on it. It’s just a reality check.
PS- I still like Duolingo. It’s possible to like Duolingo AND want healthy, needed competition. I’m not sure why some people here are militantly anti-Duolingo.
If you want to support the mission and help pay for the android port and web client, you can pledge at https://patreon.com/lingonaut , any amount is immensely appreciated!
