Too complicated and poor ui
Too complicated onboarding with with not necessary first test with no skip button poor small elements in ui sometime old style
free AND helpful! ^_^
finally finding a free language learning app with only the need of a library card is amazing, unlike other apps that are stuck behind a paywall/won’t teach you anything, mango actually does teach important basics and has a flash card feature! 10/10 to anyone who wants to learn a new language !!
I love your app but
I really love your app it helped me learn how to pronounce some Japanese words. I deleted the app for some space but now when I try to open the app it won’t open. I tried to back out of all the other apps and reset my phone but I still can’t use the app, it’s just all black then backs me out. Thanks for listening and if you have some advice I would be very grateful to try it out thank you.
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best language app
Free with a library card and breaks down how to form sentences, use grammar, and pronounce words. The app got me to A2 spanish, so it is a great starting point! I wish there were more lessons for languages like Korean, but I like how there are so many languages on the app. It would be useful for traveling and I appreciate that there is no AI.!!!!
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Genuinely incredible
I mean seriously. I have recommended this to all of my friends. It’s insane. If you really use the app and put in the effort, you will learn another language. Amazingly organized lessons, real speakers. It actually works. I never write reviews, but unbelievably good. Been using for 2 years at this point
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Have to pay!?🙁
It’s good at teaching me a language but I would have to pay to keep going.
Just one bug to fix!
I remember hearing about Mango Languages 20 years ago and how it was potentially free if you did it at the library. I always wanted to try it, and now that we live in an age of smartphones where we can connect our apps to our library cards, this really is a great gift. I am one of those who completely lost faith in Duolingo once I realized that its business model relied on drip feeding people the feeling of education for as long as possible to keep getting their money rather than actually educating them. I am thrilled that this app exists, and I am thrilled that the institution of the library still exists in these dark times for public infrastructure so I need to give all of that prepuce before I register my one complaint: I have just started a French course and want to take advantage of the autoplay feature while I get ready in the morning, drive my car, etc. but unpredictably it will jump at seemingly random points in seemingly random exercises, skipping to the next. I don't want to miss any content because it was surely laid out with the repetitions by design. But I also don't want to have to sit beside it like a babysitter to advance slide after slide when there are so many opportunities throughout the day to let it just play to me. This one but being ironed out would make the app perfect for me.
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Not good for Vietnamese
Fell for the trap. Saw someone mentioning it being good for southern Vietnamese online. Little did I know that they only have one unit for Vietnamese, and it was very much focused on tourist interactions (while also being way too advanced for a tourist lol)… and it definitely didn’t have any units with southern Vietnamese language used.
Oh well.
Oh well.
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Meh
I have their paid subscription but am looking for alternatives to Duolingo because their predatory business model of constantly pushing PAID users to buy points for real money to buy your way through the levels really ruins the joy of learning a language for me. However, there seems to be no app that does it all perfectly. I find this app from the sample content to be very “dry” but two definite pluses are how the app explains WHY a phrase is said a certain way - it gives insight in to the literal meaning of a phrase- and in addition to speaking with a quality voice, it also shows the phonetic spelling to help you understand how to pronounce a word better. What I really don’t like is the push to sign up for an account- free or not- especially when it only lets me see a few basic words I already know. I want to know what other lessons and activities are contained in this app before even signing up; I have ZERO interest in signing up for yet another subscription trial. I want to know exactly what the content is ahead of time and THEN if it has value I will pay for it.
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Paywall
It seems like a rather good app if you have the money, but you can only try out the first unit before having to get a subscription. The actual walking process is rather alright, although it can be difficult to understand how to mimic what it’s telling you to without knowing how to move your mouth. For example, making the throaty Dutch sounds, or how to move your tongue to make certain sounds in Spanish, etc.
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Library account
Signing up with my library card still is a difficult procedure. I’m still not able to after googling and reading how to.
1000% recommend!!
I was looking to learn spanish quickly for my trip to latin america. So much better than any other language app I’ve used, especially for this purpose. Grammar is introduced quickly and intuitively, the course structure makes sense, and I like that I could learn quickly and efficiently with emphasis on speaking, reading and listening. I used almost everything I learned on my trip and could be friendly and polite when speaking.
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App is fine but loading time is ridiculous and so slow
Slow
More material please
Love how the app helps with pronunciation and practicing listening and reading comprehension but it’d be awesome if Polish and Ukraine had more material on listening or reading conversation comprehension like what French, Russian etc have. Also while the Arabic course is extensive like the other major language course, help learning the Arabic alphabet as well for the other languages that don’t utilize Latin script or Cyrillic or maybe I missed something
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App doesn't open
Stuck on the opening doesn't open
Response from developer
Thanks for sharing your experience. Please uninstall and reinstall the Mango app. If the app continues not to open, please email support@mangolanguages.com with your device information and a screenshot of the app when you try to open it. -Sarah
Amazing
Great app for learning English, Im still learning how to speak it tho. I never knew how to speak any language. Im actually a cat
“How old are you” is incorrect in Japanese
I’m learning Japanese and the app taught me to say that “お歳は？ (otoshi wa)” is the correct way to ask how old are you. However, native speakers say that’s unnatural. The natural and polite way to ask is actually おいくつですか？ (oikutsu desu ka) and the informal way to say it would’ve been “何歳ですか” (nansai desu ka) so I’m kinda disappointed that Mango didn’t catch that
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Best for Russian
I think this is the best language learning app for Russian at least (I didn’t try other languages). There is lot of content that is very usable and relevant in real life situations. The apps is made so that you will remember the sentences because of the repetition. I like a lot how it makes you repeat few words and then few words with grammar and the sentence itself. The grammar notes are also super useful. I love also how it’s focused on practicing speaking always. I really feel using the app improves my level in Russian.
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App doesnt work anymore
This was my favorite app and was helping me tremendously with learning spanish. One day it just started getting stuck at the loading screen. I deleted the app and got it back but still its stuck on the M (main loading screen) and i cant move past that, log or sign in, nothing. Ive never seen anything like it and have no idea what the solution is. I hope the mango team will look into solving this soon, im extremely disappointed.
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Can be improved
What if there were multiple voices/accents/dialects for each vocab/phrase/etc., for which can be done via feeding vocal training data to an AI model optimizing for the most realistic (or most likely to encounter) voices/accents/dialects in a particular region (e.g., Male British accent in London region speaking English, Female American voice in Midwest USA region speaking English, Female Chinese voice in Shanghai China region speaking Mandarin, etc.)?
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