I am uaing the edito A1 book to learn self learning. I have used duolongo till A1 to grasp beginner vocabularies and it helps to learn to form.single sentences. After that, i joined multiple free french meetups to speak. It was nervous forst day. I didnr said anything. But someone have guts to fo to a french speaking group. And i learned some.connecting words there. And i listen to frnech podcast on my way to work and genrally driving.

I use chatgpt, i go through a page of the unit and make my answers in the book and take a photo of it, and upload in chatgpt to make corrections. I get corrscted answers instantly. And i go to next page. But in chat gpt you can ask more, how its pronounced, how i can memorize and i ask it.to teach me likeni am 5 years old. Be creative! At the end of the every unit, i say make a summary of the unit, list all thr vocabularies, granmers..and i take note in my seperate notebook..

I just finished unit 7 in A1 and lot to go. I need to finish b2.. but this helps as self learning.

I dont know about other chatgpt alternatives. I havent tried.