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Revised: Bought the lifetime deal, but it doesn’t include live
The app is a visually beautiful tool and it works very well. I was excited when I saw the amazing lifetime deal but I just learned it doesn’t include the Live courses and that it would be an additional $89 for the lifetime deal.
It feels misleading but I can get over it. Overall, I really like the functionality and look forward to adding this to my language learning collection.Show lessYahudith Simkah
How do I choose a level?
Great app and maybe better than Speakly (the only other app I know for learning Estonian). But how do I choose my level? I am learning both Estonian (A1/A2 level) and Italian (B2+ level) but I can’t find a way to set my level so it keeps giving me really easy Italian stuff to learn. Maybe a paid feature?Show lessXeja2020
Ok app - not a fan of how they handled the upgrades
First off, the use of speaking to study is a great option.
The conversations are good for grabbing phrases and then inserting them into your own flashcard app. Which you will need to use because the review feature on this app isn’t good enough or customisable enough to truly cement what it is you’re learning.
Pro’s and minor Con’s aside, what I really don’t like is that I bought a Lifetime upgrade (yep, stupid me), and then the app six months later decides they will unveil a Live feature using Ai. But you guessed it - the people who bought lifetime memberships don’t get access to it. Not even a discount as a reward! Which would be very much appreciated as the rates are very expensive and on the level of more well-rounded and established language learning apps.
The experience has soured me from ever buying a lifetime membership again as developers now use lifetime membership upgrades as a temporary cash infusion to fund feature development that they’ll then expect to charge you again for. Better to stick to a time period subscription and then ditch an app if they screw you over.Show lessHorabiscus
A Great Start, but many inconsistencies in Thai
I don’t regret buying this app, as it’s been helpful for learning Thai. However, the farther I get, the more frustrated I’m getting with one thing: very often now, the Thai words that are written are not the same words that are being spoken. The sentence means basically the same thing in each, but often the word order is different, or sometimes a word is added or left out.
I’m trying to learn to read Thai script as I go, but it’s frustrating to not know how to pronounce what is written because what’s being said is different. Please make the script and the spoken recording consistent!Show lessGardenbagger
Please fix the French Live Lesson
Everything is enjoyable thus far, but I have one complaint and that is the Live Lesson feature that I paid for always marking me wrong for saying "Je suis désolée" or other phrases that are pronounced exactly the same as the male version of it ("Je suis désolé"). Please fix that. Thank you.𝕺𝖛𝖊𝖗𝖑𝖔𝖗𝖉
SO attacking
I literally just downloaded the app and it already tells me to subscribe, also when I actually started learning it didn't even show me what the words where, just strait up phrases. I already know a but of french so I could answer the questions but for completely new people it would be very confusing. This app has lot’s of potential with its aesthetic design but please make it more of a slow paced experience.Show lessаюка132
The Icelandic Course Needs Work
This is the first language app I’ve found that finally has an Icelandic course on it, but unfortunately it looks like there are quite a few mistakes in it. Maybe the developers could get an Icelandic expert to go over it and make changes? Still, it’s definitely better than nothing and I love the mechanics of the app itself.Show lessDeLorean Gray
What part of Beginner didn’t you understand?
The visuals are truly beautiful. But as for starting out, you throw me out of the boat immediately on the first screen with no basics. Maybe that’s how toddlers learn, but not me. If I want to dive into the deep waters without swimming lessons I can just go to Germany and fumble along. For starters, they only speak a sentence one time, there is no repeat button, so if you don’t quite get the nuances, you’re out of luck. And no going back to begin again. Glad I didn’t waste any money.Show lessDobbex
A Few Concerns
So far I really appreciate the introduction to this app. I am trying the Japanese language course and have practiced enough from other apps to be able to translate the sentences that were given. I like how it breaks down each of the sentences into parts (noun, verb, adjective, participle, etc), and especially with Japanese sentence structure (such as desu indicating the subject of a sentence, or more generally a sense of existence).
I do have one main concern so far:
In one of the introduction sentences, the sentence was “I eat eggs.” The Japanese translation of the kanji in the sentence was ‘tabane’ which is correct, but when I clicked on the kanji itself as I was trying to hear each individual part of the sentence in Japanese, it used the word ‘ran’, which CAN also mean eggs, but not the ‘tabane’ from the full sentence translation. I think it would be more consistent to use the same word in the isolation of a word as the word that was used in the sentence translation.
This may be corrected later and I can update this review, but so far I am very excited to get into more of the content of the app!Show lessThe11tHouR
Deeper explanations please
Suggestions:
1) grammar reference tab devoted to explaining grammar concepts. Currently the grammar is scattered throughout the “cards” in point form which doesn’t allow for detailed explanations the way a dedicated tab would. This makes it hard to find a specific concept and to really gain enough info from it once you do find it.
2) you currently show the sentence structure during the grammar portion of the card but it rarely also includes the word order which is much more important for forming sentences in the sentence you are trying to learn. Also you should explain why you chose the vso instead of vos or SOV as I am currently learning Tagalog which frequently switches between word orders and I am having trouble understanding when to use.
3) You should make a feature that lets you compare a sentence that has been reworded into different variations and allow people to study the different factors used to change a sentence
4) you should have it show me the grammar explanation every time and allow me to advance when I am ready regardless of whether I was able to guess the answer. Sometimes I am able to use process of elimination to guess the answer by knowing a few words but I didn’t actually properly understand the sentence structure and grammar.
5) an audio based flash card playlist using the built in audio recordings that repeat the words or phrases in English and then in the target language so that you can study while your hands are busy or while driving
6) short stories and picture books! Full sentences that are interconnected are crucial for learning how to speak naturally and not just learn random words that you don’t know how to stick together.
7)progressive alphabet incorporation. For Japanese for instance you can have people study the hiragana and katakana by adding in a portion of a word in hiragana and the other part in romaji that way each word is not overwhelming at one time but allows you to use your memory of the word to figure out a letter you don’t remember and then commit it to memory. This way you learn a letter or two at time while also learning a word at the same time and not overwhelming the learner with too many new symbols all at once.Show lessWarrior9310
