Deceptively good value
My favorite language learning tool, period! It’s so good for building a foundation, even with a few minor issues. They use spaced repetition, which is a simple, but incredibly effective tool for learning Swedish (and pretty much anything). You can customize the number of cards you get each day, and you can set rest days, in case you feel overwhelmed or fall behind. The design is clean and simple, and I haven’t encountered any bugs. Two things I’d change are that I wish you could save progress between devices (if you contact support they may be able to help, but it isn’t a default option), and I do wish you had the ability to play audio at half speed, because some longer sentences can be a bit difficult to understand at the full, natural soeed. But overall, they polished this and poured so much work into it that it really does make you appreciate that they’re focusing on doing the Nordic languages extremely well, in a quality over quantity sorta way. To me, this is better than doing 40+ languages with a standardized system with robotic voices. They use native speakers for each card, who all speak at a natural, real life pace, which is a HUGE improvement over what I’m used to even if it can be a little bit difficult to understand audio at first. Customer service is also excellent and was super helpful for me. $80 seems kind of steep for a year, but a few months in, I honestly feel like it’s incredible value for a streamlined, polished, effective learning tool with folks behind it who really do care about doing it right. 5/5, this is such a nice foundation for learning Swedish, especially when—because it isn’t a super popular language for foreigners to learn—resources are a bit limited unless you live there. Which I do not. Maybe some day.
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Response from developer
Thank you so much for your review! We'll look into better synchronisation between devices. All the best for your studies!
Excellent
Wonderful learning tool with great functionality and customer support. Extremely happy with it and the progress I’ve made with it so far!
Forced portrait/veritcal view
Unfortunately the forced portrait view doesn’t work for me. I have my iPad set up in a keyboard carrier case and I never use it vertically. It’s prohibitively awkward to try and use vertically. Can’t comfortably set it up the tablet to use properly for this app. It’s the only app/program I use that forces vertical use and I don’t really want to have to fuss with a tablet set up that works for me just to use one app. Very disappointing.
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Response from developer
Hello, point taken, we are doing some refactoring and we'll look into this. Hope to have you back at that point, feel free to reach out to support so we can message you when it's done.
So good
I’ve been using this app for two months, coming from near-zero Swedish, and it quickly became the core of my learning because of how clearly effective and efficient it is.
The daily lessons are motivating. The quality is top-notch. The most important concepts are introduced early and drilled until you really know them.
Finally, it’s easy to skip any item you already know, so you’re never wasting your time here. The price is 1000% worth it, knowing that it’s always using my time effectively.
The daily lessons are motivating. The quality is top-notch. The most important concepts are introduced early and drilled until you really know them.
Finally, it’s easy to skip any item you already know, so you’re never wasting your time here. The price is 1000% worth it, knowing that it’s always using my time effectively.
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Response from developer
Hej! Thanks for taking the time to give us feedback. As former learners of Scandinavian languages ourselves, it's a pleasure to hear that you've found what we offer to be the best use of your time, because it was really our intention. We really wanted to create something that, whether you had 15 or 30 or 60 minutes a day, would make you say "yes, there was no better way to spend my time learning new things about Swedish and retaining what I have studied before". All the best!
Marvelous!
The app has really useful insights, particularly on the pronunciation. Ideal for English speakers.
