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Overall great - just a few tweaks needed
I’ve been eager to learn Spanish formally so when I saw a deal on HuffPost for a lifetime subscription to Mondly for about $40, I grabbed it. Overall I’ve been very pleased with the app. I like the range of lessons available (daily, grammar, lots of different categories). I like the competitive piece of it too, and the bonuses for doing at least one lesson each day.
My only quibbles are that it’s unreasonably picky about correct answers and there isn’t quite as much conversation as I’d like. An example of the pickiness is that it asks to translate “Que clase de habitacion desearia?”; I translated it as “what type of room would you like?” And it dinged me because the correct answer was “what room type would you like?” It would be great if there were alternate correct responses.
In terms of conversation, it would be good if there were more opportunities for speaking practice in each lesson. I’d like it if there were times when there was a sentence in English and I had to come up with the correct Spanish phrase without a prompt, rather than just saying what I’m reading.Show lessBeth SH
Latest update wiped out all of my conversations
Kindly: it's good, but not as good as Duolingo. The format of the daily lessons is always the same: eight simple noun tests plus two simple sentences. The font choice is really strange - the upper case "i" looks exactly like a lower case "L", which makes it really hard to know which letter to pick when one has to spell words by sliding individual letters into place.
I like the feature whereby one has free access to all the content if one plays Mondly seven days in a row, but the most recent update has deleted all of my conversations in the deeper lessons, by which I mean each subject matter has eight lessons, one of which involves speaking aloud ("the conversation"), and although I've completed the conversations for every subject I've undertaken so far, Mondly has decided to delete my progress, so instead of scoring 8/8 in my completed subjects, it's now showing 7/8 for all of them. Hmm.Show lessCotswold Boy
Developer Response
Greetings from Mondly! We'd like to help you with this issue. Please email us at ios@mondly.com. Looking forward to hearing from you, Ioana, Customer CareFacebook login
I think this is a great app, but the Facebook login is a mess.
Once one person logs in with Facebook that is it, you have no way of loging in with another Facebook account. I had logged on with my wife’s iPad and she now has no way to even select her Facebook account on any of her devices (despite my Facebook in no way being logged in on any of them at the time). A ‘not my account’ functionality really needs to be installed as she lost all her progress trying to create that account. There is no point in the account creation/login where it even tells you what account is being used to log in.Show lessDouble_Infinity__
Developer Response
Greetings from Mondly! We'd like to help you with this issue. Please email us at ios@mondly.com. Looking forward to hearing from you, Ioana, Customer CareThis app is great!
This app is very good. I have just started and I have already learnt basic greetings in french! I definitely recommend getting this app, especially beginners like me!Jemima Head
Fantastic learning tool if used correctly
Learning Spanish. Great app but shouldn’t have removed the conversation part of each topic as they helped with diction and it was funny to hear a conversation between you and yourself. Good for learning some key words and phrases but best used along side other learning materials and not alone as getting to grips with verb conjugation is easier if you read and practice since there are thousands of verbs and some rules that aren’t easy to grasp using Mondly’s method. However if you are starting a language from scratch it’s a great way to introduce you and get talking! The other things will come with experience and probably help from native speakers if you show a real passion to learn. Would be 5* if it introduced a refresher algorithm to refresh words and phrases as they start to be forgotten that you must type without help.Show lesselchupe
Revised opinion
Well I paid for the premium app, but had real issues when it didn't work. It took a while for their support team to get back to me. However, when they finally did, the outcome was brilliant! Everything works as it should! I am learning Chinese. The app goes rather quickly but it is brilliant as a way of consolidating what I've learnt. So many topics to choose from!
You get characters as well!
Listening practice, speed gradually increases, as well as speaking practice. Awesome.
JeanieShow lessJSt11
Developer Response
Hello, Thank you for contacting us. Please email us details of this issue to ios@mondlylanguages.com so we can sort this out. Thanks, RoxanaOne of the best teaching apps on the market
I am a private voice specialist and very often we work in foreign languages. This is absolutely one apps of the best that I’ve ever seen for education and recreation. I wanted to take the time to explain why I feel this way, for one thing I work with students who were on the autistic spectrum with great gift for music and left brain activity. This is fantastic particularly the virtual reality feature to be able to get my students attention and get them retaining the information. I also like that there are so many free features. The app is affordable at $10 a month, and I personally to keep myself polished on my language skills love the text conversation option. Whoever created this understands how the brain works and that education is very personalized. I think this opens a lot of doors to folks that maybe would get frustrated with the apps that only teach one way. I can only see this product improving as time goes on. And have high hopes for the future. Very best, Jen VanellaShow lessCastsajen
Developer Response
Hi Jen, Thank you so much for your review and for your kind words. We're so happy to have received such amazing feedback and to hear that we're really helping and making a difference - we won't let you down - Ioana, Customer CareMake it cheaper!
Iv been learning a language for a few years and this would be one of the best but this app only lets you complete the first lesson and daily challenges before asking to pay I won’t be paying $50 for an app, please make it so if you don’t want to buy the full game make it so we can buy the next lot of lessons with our points we earn so then we actually get to play the app and don’t delete it and look for a new one that is free coz there are a few. Besides that it’s a great way to learn and is easy appShow lessbecka848
Great Learning App for Many Languages
I decided to learn Bulgarian in order to speak to my partners family. I didn’t know any Bulgarian and they didn’t speak any English, so I wanted to learn Bulgarian to make it easier when I visit them for the first time later this year.
It’s a great heart and I can also learn French, as I will also be meeting my friends Canadian friends parents this year too. It has been quite difficult to learn both languages simultaneously, but it gets easier to retain what you have learnt if you put in time every day to learn the languages. I have had some problems with my health and it has affected me, neurologically, especially in terms of memory and concentration. So, I need to spend at least an hour per day for each language. I started last year and stopped for a while due to health problems, but I am determined to take time each day to study. I don’t think I’ll ever be fluent, but I will be happy just being able to have conversations with my boyfriends family and my friends parents.
I actually first went to Rosetta Stone to learn Bulgarian, but they don’t offer that language, unbelievably. So, I found this app and it is even better AND less expensive. Win-win.
Thanks Mondly!Show lessSuzabella27
Developer Response
Hello, Thank you for your amazing feedback, we're happy to hear that you're learning Bulgarian and French with Mondly and that you like us best. We wish you best of luck in your language-learning journey and if you need us, please get in touch at ios@mondly.com- we'll more than be happy to help. Ioana, Customer CareJapanese is making sense
I’m actually considering buying the full version of this - the free lessons are great, with audio available for every word. You can choose whether you see the words in Japanese or the English version of the pronunciation (although it would be better if the Japanese words were spelt fully in Hiragana, especially for beginners). At the end of every lesson, you’re given a summary of what you’ve learned, including little tips for using Japanese words, which has been so helpful. I always refer back to these when writing notes. Overall great app, would highly recommend for beginners 😊Show lessLara Trenchev
