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American learning French
A fairly clear structure with good visuals and clear pronunciations. My goal is to read books in French, and this app seems more geared to travelers or business people visiting a French speaking country. I also feel it is more geared toward British English than to American English even though I specified American when I signed up. They use words like biscuit for cookie, holiday for vacation, etc. which gets a little confusing in some of the modules. Is a “cooker” a stove? Most Americans would never use the word cooker. And Americans spell color without the letter u. Also, I have been using this app for twenty months, and feel there is not enough explanation of verb tenses or conjugations. Some of the translations are too loose. It would be easier if they better explained them; for example an American would say “I need ___” whereas in French they say “I have need of ___”. That much I learned in high school, but it was not explained in the app. Small things like that can be very helpful. Colloquialisms (or what I take to be colloquial) are not explained at all. For example, the word cour translates as court, but the app uses it interchangeably with garden, which is confusing.Show lesspm.art
Learn Tagalog the easy way.
Tagalog language is very easy and fun to learn with this program. Everything is well organized and lessons well explained. The only bad thing is that some sentences, when spoken to you by the App, they don't agree with what you are reading. I have reported them, however, the next time they come up, they continue being wrong. It seems to me that Mondley doesn't review the content, at least that is true with Tagalog Language, where there are several mistakes being reported and they never get corrected.
Tagalog is a fascinating language, however, it is a language that cannot be learned by memorizing words. Therefore the teaching should be more like the way you learn in school, and not by memorization; it is too complex to learn the way Mondley lays out its lessons. I have not seen any explanations as to how to change a word from singular to plural or how to understand focus markers, focus pronouns, etc. I believe that maybe everything is included here. However, the presentation needs serious rearrangement.
I take language learning seriously. Mondley, now it's your turn to teach seriously!Show less{Puraagua}
Developer Response
Hello, Thank you for the input. We carefully review each and every feedback we get so we want to follow this through - please get in touch at ios@mondly.com with some additional details so we can look closely into it. Looking forward to hearing from you, Ioana, Customer Care10/10 :)
Love this app! So easy to use and better than the website :)kiwigirl1996
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My trip to Greece years ago was wonderful. My ability to speak Greek even the few phrases I had mastered sounding authentic to the people. They were very surprised and appreciative. (See below for my first use of Mondly.) Now I’m reviewing my German anticipating working again with German speaking business people. The app is helping me to catch up quickly. I’m starting with the intermediate section and finding my memory coming back quickly. Mondly is an excellent tool!
(Learning Greek) I’m really learning how to speak and read Greek. As a former language teacher I’m impressed that in 5 days I have learned lots of basic vocabulary as well as phrases that I will use in my coming travel to Greece. As well, the app is cleverly introducing the Greek alphabet. It combines pictures, audio and print. You are prompted to speak into a mike. Then the app reflects back what you say in writing. Using the color red when you’re wrong and white when you get it right. It works and it’s fun.
An update: I’m on my 58th day now and continuing to learn daily. I still have a long way to go to be fluent, but I’ll be able to speak basic phrases and vocabulary when in Greece. I’ve noted that I’ve covered less than 10% of the app’s content so far. They have just updated the app to include more opportunities to speak and hear yourself converse. Very clever.Show lesslanajewell
Update!
Took a while and a few Mails but now the App seems to work again. Hope it will continue to do so! Thank you Mondly- Team for solving the issue!34601-0815
Developer Response
Hello, Thank you so much for your feedback - we’re glad to hear that everything is working as intended. If you need any assistance, please do not hesitate to contact us at ios@mondly.com - we're always happy to help! Happy learning! Ioana, Customer CareNo Grammar
This is a great app that can be very helpful for learning words and phrases, with a great system to make sure they stay in your head, and it even offers speaking practice with a high level of accuracy. However it does not teach any grammar, even in the grammar section. At best, phrases that contain certain grammar rules are shown and you must figure out why it happens the way it does, for instance: in French, “Qu’est-ce que” can be used to start a question that translates to: “is is that…”. “Est-ce que” can be used in the same way, and in common speech these words are missed out altogether, but this isn’t taught, you’re just shown questions that have those two different beginnings and you’re left to figure it out. Without being taught different grammar rules one can’t transfer words and skills they’ve learned from phrases taught by Mondly into other coherent phrases, and furthermore, they then can’t build sentences and paragraphs, as the way to do this isn’t taught. This also makes you unable to fluently speak the language, only using the phrases you’re fed. Great app but no grammar teaching is a massive flaw that will hold learners back.Show lessNot chess
Developer Response
Hi, Thank you for the feedback - our lessons are based on inductive reasoning - if you keep using the app, you'll learn the rules without even realizing it. If you encounter any issues while enjoying the Mondly experience, please let us know at ios@mondly.com - we're here to help. Looking forward to hearing from you, Ioana, Customer CareTHANK GOODNESS FOR THIS APP
i was so happy to find this app, i recently wanted to start learning korean because first bts is korean and second it seems like a really fun language. I want to go and live in korea in the future with a friend of mine and before then i want to be fluent, i do use duolingo and it helped me learn some of the korean alphabet (hangul) but this app opens up more vocab, u can learn how to speak in a conversation or u can learn simple words like mother ,father, sister or brother. their technique is really helpful, u can learn but writing it or by speaking it they have lots of options, i’m doing the 7 day free trial right now and i might end up buying it after this week. i advise anyone trying to learn any language to use this appShow lessfortnite_love_xx$
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It is so helpful definitely recommend if you want to learn a new language sadly have to pay for others buy quality languages are free give it a try it’s safe and professional🙍🏿♀️🤷🏽♂️
Lots of bells could do with more whistles
Hi just wanted to say I absolutely love using Mondly and where other apps I’ve picked up and put down I always use Mondly for a few different languages.
It’s really fun to do the daily lessons and I love going through the grammar sometimes , but could you please make it easier to review things covered in given category?
I love to learn but always need to review I would just be really happy if I could fire up Mondly a bit late at night and quickly review what I had done in a recent lesson or something. Even a quick review option . Or test me - make quick tests or pre lesson reviews an option and I will gladly pick it and you can drill some of this stuff into my brain thanks a lot oh also you know sometimes I like the native voices but with the french course I only heard this for like a few words like tea and stuff , but the rest is all machine work. Too bad like the Turkish would be nice to have some native speakers
But yes keep up the good work lots of good product to refine just needs a bit of polish I think you can stretch it outShow lessaleph-naught
Love this app!...except for the chatbot sections
I love this app when it comes to learning. The hands free style where I can practice speaking is amazing and I’ve been able to put into practice the kanji, katakana and hiragana I’ve been learning on my own (I recommend this program in addition to a book or another program to practice sentence structure). I love everything about it...except the chat bot sections. The responses I give don’t work with the bot (despite them offering me the sentence) and if I try to do another sentence (which sometimes is an option) it’ll count it all as one sentence. I don’t know how to “speak” a period into a sentence. It’s frustrating. Even more frustrating however are the repetition sections. I repeat the dialogue exactly as they ask me (it even is recorded the same) but they mark me as wrong for using hiragana instead of kanji for some words. How do you “speak” in hiragana vs kanji? The program never says it. They just repeat the same section over and over again and drive me insane. I love this app...except that part. Please adjust the chat bot sections to either teach how to use the dialect they’re asking you to use (slowing down doesn’t help when it’s the same sounds you’re using and you’re still getting it wrong), or make it a bit more lenient with foreign speakers trying to speak a language they are unfamiliar with. Beyond that I love the program and recommend it to everyone...except the chat bot sections.Show lessBriKaiBag
