Would be perfect if UI was and features were improved
Engaging way to learn a language such music is so engaging and it’s fun to develop the ability to follow and understand songs. It’s useful for learning lyrics and getting a feel for language structure and vocab. However, there are a few major flaws.
1. You can’t watch full videos “Learn” tap, nor search for songs in the “Play” tab. This makes watching the full video and lyrics for a song you’re learning tedious to find since you need to scroll through the entire collection to find it.
2. There are useful tips and phrases in the learn modules that pop up as cards, but they cannot be retrieved afterwards. Once you see a tip, there should be a central repository of these useful phrases similar to that implemented for vocabulary. As it is there’s really no good way to review past material.
3. You can navigate back within a lesson to review a tip/pronunciation/anything. This should be possible as it’s easy to answer a question and want to review true concept before closing the lesson.
Despite it’s flaws I am subscribing to this app to support the team and idea, but I wouldn’t recommend it to others until the above feature are implemented. I’ll update this review and rating if/when these basic features are implementedA Osler
Developer Response
Thanks so much for your review - we’d love to hear more so we can make improvements to the app. Can you drop us an email on hello@lirica.co.uk so we can arrange a very quick chat!Great app!
So far I love this app but can you please have it to where when we click the words in green it plays just that part along with showing the English translation? I think it would be helpful so we don't have to keep repeating the whole thing over and over again for just one phrase we don't understand.Ayakashi Ayaki
Love it! Would pay a lot for Korean :)
Such a great app. Fun to play, and really makes vocabulary stick in my mind so much better than learning with out-of-context flashcards. (I do review the songs by singing them to myself or playing the challenge from time to time.) Memorizing song lyrics is also a very effective way to learn grammatical constructions for me. (“How do you do a counterfactual conditional in Spanish again? Oh right, Si yo tuviera un palacio...”)
I’ve played all the lessons for German so far, and most of the Spanish and had a great time. The only reason I haven’t upgraded to premium is that my German level is intermediate and my Spanish level is advanced. I’ll probably pay when/if lessons at my level get made.
But what I would absolutely pay for is lessons on Korean. I know there’s a big challenge, namely how to teach the Korean writing system through songs. But I can think of some ways to do it. Or maybe the lessons for Korean could start at upper beginner, and require that you’ve already learned to read.Would-be tipper
Cool concept
It is a great idea, but it really needs an option to search a specific song. I gave up on using it when I couldn’t figure that out and was forced to choose a song based off the album cover... that’s the only needed improvementalicamp06
Ok app, non-existent customer support
*No reply to 3 emails regarding a promotion in which existing customers needed to provide email/name to get the reduced lifetime upgrade fee of $15. I wouldn’t hold out for any response regarding problems with the app.
The pricing model makes it near impossible to recommend for my ES —> ENG students. It’s a shame because modern SLA research points towards an app like this being beneficial for procedural language acquisition.
The app itself is a nice concept, but often the songs lag a little, lyrics don’t match the song segment, etc. Song selection isn’t good unless you like music from Spain or reggaetón/pop from Latin America. (Can’t comment on the English language songs.) Not a lot of content was added while I was using it. I suppose I was hoping for older cumbias and more Mexican music.
At $50 lifetime access, it’s probably worth. I see no point in renewing at the regular price as new content is not added frequently.Maxcnw
Not actually free, good app otherwise
It is an interesting format for sure but I would not recommend for beginners.. the only thing free is the download and one sample song. The learning style was easy enough to pick up but I feel that it is lacking in any real permanent learning.FemSamurai21
All they want is money
I downloaded the app because I really want to learn Spanish. It’s a fun idea and it’s helpful for learning, but they only let you learn the beginning verses of 2 songs before they make you create an account, and you can’t get past the 1st verse unless you buy a subscription. Very disappointing.merber666
It needs improvement
I'm a music lover, but I didn't enjoy this app as much as I thought. The intro part both Spanish and English is too fast for a learner. The texts have mistakes. You can't choose a slow song, and you have to struggle with the ones available as first options because they are too fast. I couldn't see the translation for the complete song, and I couldn't understand what it was saying. Frustrating! The membership is not expensive if you pay for the whole year, but I think is not worth it. In addition, I want to learn English from the USA and Spanish from Latin America, not from Great Britain and Spain 😩.anailuj78
GREAT IDEA!
I am just now starting do use the app and i am in love with this idea! whosever idea was to create an app where you can learn through music is a genius lowkey. Very cool.EbonyBurris
Really good 10/10 recommend subscription
I’ve just got this app and it’s actually pretty good. I’m learning a lot fasterahlysia
