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Etar is great!

Thanks! Needed a replacement for Simple Contacts after this, Connect You seems like a much better app anyway. :)

1. You don't like the Google app
2. You don't want to use Google apps out of principle
3. You're using a version of Android where Google apps are not installed by default, so you need to install something

There are a bunch of those "simple" apps on F-droid, such as Simple Contacts, Simple Calendar, and Simple Camera. I cannot find Simple Gallery in F-droid any more, it seems to have been replaced by its Fossify equivalent already.

In light of this, it could be an idea to check if you have any of those apps installed and consider replacing them with an alternative. I was using Simple Contacts until now (only listed as "Contacts" in my apps), so I guess it's time to make some changes.

Distributions like Linux Mint and Ubuntu don't have much of a learning curve at all these days. If you're curious, you could install them on an USB drive and play around with it without installing.

I've been using Linux for well over a decade now, but I'm not an advanced user at all. I mostly just like it because it just works.

"Christianity doesn't exist because God isn't real"

Yeah, the adds take up some time, but I still find the overall experience less annoying than I did with Duolingo last time I used it. The push towards human interaction, which Duolingo has actively pushed away from, is also welcome.

A lot of people don't have much food on their table
But they got a lot of forks n' knives
And they gotta cut somethin'

- Dylan

Unfortunately I don't know of any open source alternative. After another response in this thread I started using busuu.com for French and Italian, and I'm liking it so far. Their business model is pretty transparent, but I find it less annoying than Duolingo so far.

Viel Glück and buona fortuna with your language learning!

Anyone who has a passion for open source and wants to learn Spanish should check out LibreLingo! It's also a nice project for people who want to contribute to something that is not owned by a company, though it's a bit too early for contributors who have language skills but no coding experience.

Never heard of busuu before, but tried it now and am enjoying it a lot. Thank you!

It's also worth giving a shout-out to LibreLingo, which aims to be an open source version of Duolingo. For now it's only Spanish though, and as I'm not interested in learning Spanish at the moment I haven't gotten any real use out of it.

In my experience the typo-tolerance is not very flexible. I write using Dvarok instead of QWERTY, so the typos I make don't always follow regular patterns. On my phone I use a swipe keyboard, so sometimes a typo comes out as a different word entirely. No matter what I don't want to be punished for my mistakes, even if they are real mistakes. I just want to keep on learning without the tool I'm using intentionally trying to make that harder for me.