Rosetta Stone is also US owned.
I pay for a family plan and share it with a bunch of people. Several are government workers and use it in addition to traditional training, so it is actually an important subscription.
It’s one of my last US subscriptions.
The best language learning app IMO is Anki. It’s FOSS and very powerful (although the UI isn’t great).
Seriously, once you learn how to use it, it’s incredible how well it works. However it is also much less forgiving than Duolingo. You really need to use it everyday. If you skip more than 1 day, you’ll be so behind that it gets tough to catch up
Does Anki come with content? Like where do I get the flash cards from for a certain language? The website makes no mention of this
You can download shared decks. On the mobile app, there’s a little floating button with a plus sign that takes you to the shared decks, but I find it better to use the desktop app to import so that I can go ahead and fix any formatting issues I have too (i find the default font size to often be too small).
AnkiDroid on F-Droid, Ankiweb only links to Google Play from their website: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.ichi2.anki/
I’m doing ok with Babbel which is German — not Canadian but also not American
Awesome, we have the same goal and I’ve been looking at European alternatives wherever Canadian one doesn’t exist.
Subscribed
For ebooks, Kobo is a Canadian subsidiary of a Japanese company (Rakuten).
Edit:
Apparently Kobo does audiobooks as well, but not sure what the selection looks like.
Also, you can check out books from your library and read them on Kobo devices (probably - check out your local library).
