No Kanji
This app really needs to incorporate kanji into Japanese learning. Teaching everything primarily in hiragana makes reading real Japanese more difficult, because Japanese is normally written using a combination of kanji, hiragana, and katakana.
A simple improvement would be to replace appropriate hiragana words with their standard kanji and provide furigana above the kanji for learners who still need help with pronunciation. This would allow users to learn how Japanese is actually written while still being able to read unfamiliar kanji.
Without enough kanji exposure, I feel like I’m learning to read Japanese in a way that doesn’t reflect what I actually encounter in Japan. Adding kanji with furigana would make the app significantly more useful for serious Japanese learners.
A simple improvement would be to replace appropriate hiragana words with their standard kanji and provide furigana above the kanji for learners who still need help with pronunciation. This would allow users to learn how Japanese is actually written while still being able to read unfamiliar kanji.
Without enough kanji exposure, I feel like I’m learning to read Japanese in a way that doesn’t reflect what I actually encounter in Japan. Adding kanji with furigana would make the app significantly more useful for serious Japanese learners.
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had to pay after three lessons
i got this app to help me improve tagalog for my school it was going well until i had to start paying after lesson 3
Best language app
This is by far the best language app I’ve ever tried. It doesn’t use ai (to my knowledge), it’s basically free, and it has lessons that actually work in tons of languages! My only criticism is that you should add chapters on how to learn the different writing systems, and also to maybe add Esperanto. Thank you!
-an aspiring hyperpolyglot
-an aspiring hyperpolyglot
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Love to Vietnamese!
I normally never write a review for an app, but I am especially inspired today to express my appreciation for this app. I have always wanted to improve my Vietnamese (my family speaks)but have always found it so difficult across various apps because of different pronunciations and the exaggerated formality of the language. As a speaker seeking to increase her vocabulary outside of a household setting, I commend your dedication to the language and the curriculum to actually teaching someone a language with the goal to put it to real world use with REAL conversation. My only complaint in the way the app is formatted. I think your mission is amazing but if the app was a little easier to navigate take Duolingo as inspiration maybe? Also vocabulary wise I am already familiar with many words as is but would love to add a unit one vocab word to a bigger vocab flash card list with more advanced words. Thank you MANGO team!
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Real voices has to be a lie
I just sat through a phrase lesson that’s most definitely AI. Not as advertised at all
Great app and support
One of its kind app, it offers a learning vida a great listening experience besides exercises. The support team is rapid and responsive. Thanks a lot for such a great app.
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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