Phenomenal language app
This app is just so thoughtfully and well designed. Can’t recommend Sylvi highly enough! It’s amazing to finally have found a way to practice speaking German in a low-stakes setting, but also get remarkably detailed feedback. It’s amazing how the app is able to put together little focused lessons based on the specific problem areas you’re having in the target language. This is one of the best parts of the app! And this feature is so impressive. There are just so many absolutely useless language apps and this one is just phenomenal. Wow!
I have a couple suggestions for the developers:
1) The “Quick Lessons” only come with just five exercises. Could there be a way to have the AI generate more of them on a specific grammar topic if desired? Or to be able to go back to a lesson generated on a previous day and get more exercises on that topic? I’d like to be able to practice the grammar topic I’m having issues with more extensively.
2) The news articles in the German version of the app are all originally written in English (the Guardian, BBC) and just translated into German. Could news articles be made available that were originally written in the target language so that the reading practice is authentic? Such as Tagesschau, Deutsche Welle, Heute.de etc.
3) The text-to-speech/dictation function in the pen-pal chats is on the whole mostly reliable; my only recommendation for the developers that is they continue to update this as the technology improves. The embedded dictation function in the app certainly isn’t as good as say Wispr flow and I often have to edit my dictated speech to correct errors.
I have a couple suggestions for the developers:
1) The “Quick Lessons” only come with just five exercises. Could there be a way to have the AI generate more of them on a specific grammar topic if desired? Or to be able to go back to a lesson generated on a previous day and get more exercises on that topic? I’d like to be able to practice the grammar topic I’m having issues with more extensively.
2) The news articles in the German version of the app are all originally written in English (the Guardian, BBC) and just translated into German. Could news articles be made available that were originally written in the target language so that the reading practice is authentic? Such as Tagesschau, Deutsche Welle, Heute.de etc.
3) The text-to-speech/dictation function in the pen-pal chats is on the whole mostly reliable; my only recommendation for the developers that is they continue to update this as the technology improves. The embedded dictation function in the app certainly isn’t as good as say Wispr flow and I often have to edit my dictated speech to correct errors.
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Finally I am finding consistency with my language learning!
I am really enjoying the penpal feature of this app and find it’s helping me be consistent with my French and Spanish practice. It feels just like needing to reply to a friend’s message - I love it. Also, the corrections are so so helpful for checking up on my grammar slip ups.
ACTUALLY making progress
For the first time in SUCH a long time, this app is helping me make real progress on speaking Portuguese 😭 I was on the verge of giving up, but I’ve now stuck with Sylvi for over 100 days. The method, the personalisation & seeing your progress makes this the best language learning app ever! Everyone should use it
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untrustworthy
everything is AI, beware!!!
Spanish
Someone recommended me this app and I have lots of learning apps and this is the far best app I found I’m learning Spanish but it caters for every other languages too download you won’t regret
