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?
You can try a combination of different resources. I would exhaust the free and cheap resources first. Get yourself up to being able to read your first book and listen to your first podcast. After that you can focus a lot on consuming content. :-
Duome
Closemaster
Busuu
TV5monde - Free
LeFrançais Facile avec RFI - Free
Morpheem
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
Tex’s french grammar Free
Speakly (paid)
Free4talk - I think free. Practice speaking with others.
LanguageTransfer
InnerFrench (podcast)
AliceAyel (youtube) free + paid(site)
NewsinSlowFrench
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StoryListening
Hyplern
Graded reader on amazon/kindle