Good with limits
Overall, I like this app and pay for the monthly subscription. One area I have been needing work on in my language journey is an outlet to practice listening. This app helps fill in those gaps, although, there a few aspects I would change regarding the saved vocabulary feature.
Overall, I think this app is worth it. It’s less complicated than finding level appropriate YouTube videos
Overall, I think this app is worth it. It’s less complicated than finding level appropriate YouTube videos
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Good for reading in another language
But you do have to pay
Comparison to DuoLingo
I think DuoLingo is a good app but LingQ is better because it is more immersive. The lesson have more complex word formation but the repetitions of the words creat better learning.
Must Have App
Still the reigning champ of language Apps. CI, RWL, tons of available content. Spaced Repetition.
Very engaging
I had plateaued in my French studies and this app got me excited to restart my studies. There are lots of different ways you can use this app to learn and tons of interesting material to work with in your studies. I notice huge proficiency gains in less than 8 weeks
Great for passive B1 / B2 learners beding listening practice
It would be really helpful if the vocabulary flip cards had larger or adjustable text and also Helium if nouns were capitalized
Amazing for Advanced Learners
lam fluent in Korean in terms of daily life and even more complex topics, but l am working to advance my Korean for further academic studies. The issue is that it often becomes hard to find resources when you're advanced especially for languages like Korean. I feel blessed to come across this app as it is exactly what I was looking for: self-guided lessons that cover all media and situations that doesn't spoon feed you and make you feel frustrated with things you already know (most of it), but also gives the needed context to quickly flow through while picking up the words you need.
Advanced learners need something completely different from beginners and this app seems to understand that! However, I also recommended it to my more beginner friends as it's a beautiful balance and the methodology of this app is one that makes you actually fluent not just someone who parrots words. So excited to take this app through school; this is the only language app I've ever been willing to pay for.
Advanced learners need something completely different from beginners and this app seems to understand that! However, I also recommended it to my more beginner friends as it's a beautiful balance and the methodology of this app is one that makes you actually fluent not just someone who parrots words. So excited to take this app through school; this is the only language app I've ever been willing to pay for.
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scammers
First, they say you can sign up for a trial period and cancel it within a week, but when you cancel after three days, they charge you $30 anyway once the week is up. Give me my money back, you scammers. Now, as a matter of principle, I will not use your app.
Tool for building comprehension
This is a tool that, if you put the time in, will truly build your comprehension in your target language.
The theory behind it is simple, the more content of a foreign language you input, either through reading, listening, or both, the more you’ll understand.
Some cons-
The UI may take some getting used to.
It has glitches from time to time.
But if you’re motivated, and your mind is set on practicing, the glitches are not much to work around. I think I still save significant time not having to look up every word in a dictionary.
The theory behind it is simple, the more content of a foreign language you input, either through reading, listening, or both, the more you’ll understand.
Some cons-
The UI may take some getting used to.
It has glitches from time to time.
But if you’re motivated, and your mind is set on practicing, the glitches are not much to work around. I think I still save significant time not having to look up every word in a dictionary.
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Good app but constant technical issues
Having used this app for multiple years its is disappointing how unstable it is especially on iPad. I continue to use it daily but it often freezes, will not import content and has other technical problems with especially with Japanese.
Cecilia
Wonderful way to learn!!! Very enjoyable and effective. Thank you for the opportunity to learn another language in such a fun way.
Fantastic App
This app is exactly what I was looking for. It allows you to learn in context all in one spot. I love that you get real people narrating the texts almost of the time as well and that you can make your own lessons out of the videos, podcasts, books, and websites you want to watch or read. I actually use it to understand websites I am looking at. The only thing I would love to see eventually is in the vocabulary review section I would love to see more interactive activities. I want to have to type or speak, not just choose the right answer. I would also love there to be a pronunciation section where you can either record and compare the pronunciation or it simply tells you how close you are. Something that this app has is that it is almost a one stop shop. With these changes I think it will be this for sure.
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Stuck in English
I signed up for the application trial with the goal of reviewing French and improving my listening comprehension skills. The app however had gotten stuck with two target languages: English and French. As a result, I was getting daily email reminders telling me how I can become better at English, in English. I was getting notifications about studying English. No notifications nor emails about French. There is a way in the app’s settings to remove a language, but English would somehow get added back the next day. I just couldn’t bring myself to pay $120 per year to get daily reminders about learning English so I canceled my trial. It’s really too bad because what I saw for learning French looked pretty great.
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Great app for language learning
Great app to learn a new language. You can import YouTube videos, documents, certain books(depending on copyright), Podcasts etc. You can then study the content and highlight words and phrases. Highlighting a phrase is called a LingQ and it really is the best way to learn because individual words may have a different meaning alone but with other words mean something completely different. I didn’t give it 5 stars because there are a few things that they need to improve/fix. One thing that is annoying is when you import something it will sometimes split a complete sentence. So if you’re studying in “view sentence” mode then half of that sentence is on one page and the other half is on the next. Or you may even have half of the last sentence, the beginning of the next sentence and then the end of that sentence afterwards and so on. This is a problem when studying because depending on where it splits can sometimes change the meaning of the sentence. If the app knows where the sentence starts and ends, then it should be able to fix this issue. I know you can manually do it but it is very tedious and takes a lot of time to do. Most of the LingQ lessons are perfect and don’t do that, only importing from what I can see. Other than that, the app works great and they are consistently pushing out updates to improve it weekly.
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App is unstable
the daily “Lingq” goal sometimes does not work due to server issues.
Importing podcasts is also hard to do so content is not that wide as it’s advertised. Timezone changes during travel can mess up your daily goal although you already account for the time change.
Importing podcasts is also hard to do so content is not that wide as it’s advertised. Timezone changes during travel can mess up your daily goal although you already account for the time change.
LingQ
An excellent means of learning a second language
Great Tool
This is an excellent tool for learning a language. I really appreciate all the work and thought that when into creating LingQ.
Best Reading source I’ve found
I am reading everyday things that I enjoy on this app. This is the best app I’ve ever used.
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Good system
I really like this system.
