Selam vs Bo Speak Learn Language
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Selam
Learn Amharic and Tigrinya through interactive lessons, vocabulary building, and grammar explanations. Practice with flashcards, track your progress, and build a daily learning habit. Unlock more content with a premium subscription.
- Interactive lessons
- Vocabulary building
- Grammar explanations
- Flashcard review
- Progress tracking
- Two language options
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Learn Amharic to connect with family and your roots. Whether you grew up hearing Amharic or are learning it for someone you love, Selam helps you build everyday vocabulary through short, interactive lessons. Practice with pictures, recorded audio, matching and translation. You can also choose Tigrinya and follow its own learning path. TWO LANGUAGES, ONE APP Choose Amharic or Tigrinya and follow a structured learning path. Amharic includes 22 units and 68 lessons. The new Tigrinya course includes 10 vocabulary units and 32 lessons, covering greetings, family, food and more. LEARN BY SEEING AND LISTENING Connect words with pictures and hear their pronunciation. Practice recognizing words, matching meanings and recalling what you have learned. GRAMMAR THAT FITS THE LESSON Short grammar cards explain useful patterns at selected moments in your lessons, helping you understand how the language works as you practice. FLASHCARDS, YOUR WAY Review one unit or choose All learned to practice words and phrases from completed lessons in your selected language. Reveal each answer, mark how you did and revisit cards that need more practice. Flashcard practice requires premium. BUILD A LEARNING HABIT Earn XP, keep your streak going and track your progress as you complete lessons. Switch between Amharic and Tigrinya from the app's language picker. MORE TO EXPLORE IN AMHARIC The Amharic course also includes sentence practice, an interactive Fidel chart, cultural articles and word explanations. The Tigrinya course currently focuses on vocabulary lessons and selected grammar cards. START WITH UNIT 1 Create an account to complete all three Unit 1 lessons for free in either language. A premium subscription unlocks Unit 2 onward and flashcard practice. Subscription prices and any available trial are shown in the app before purchase. Manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple account settings. Let's learn together. Privacy Policy: https://www.learnwithselam.com/privacy.html Terms of Service: https://www.learnwithselam.com/terms.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Bo Speak Learn Language
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Little Languages gives a child seventeen languages to explore, each one set in its own animated world. Café Paris has rooftops and city lights. Zen Garden drifts with blossom. Savanna Trail glows at sunset, Kente Market flies festival bunting, and Dragon Palace hangs with swaying lanterns. Every world is drawn and animated inside the app, so the whole thing feels like a place rather than a list. Lessons are laid out as a winding trail rather than a wall of rows. Children follow it from chapter to chapter with a friendly guide waiting at the next stop, so it is always obvious where they are and where they are going. Along the way they meet words on flip cards, hear them or read how to say them, then answer quick questions built for small hands: big tappable choices, and letter tiles for spelling so nobody has to hunt for accented characters on a keyboard. The seven African languages are full courses, not a phrasebook — the same twelve levels and thousands of lessons as every other language, written in proper orthography, from Yoruba's tone marks to Amharic's Ge'ez script. We are straight with you about pronunciation. Where Apple provides a voice for a language, you hear a real one, spoken slowly. Where it does not — which is the case for every African language — the app stays quiet rather than guessing. We tried a substitute voice and removed it after a native speaker told us it was well off the mark; tone in particular is something no stand-in voice can carry. Those lessons show a clear written "say it like this" guide instead, because a word taught wrongly is worse than a word not spoken. Grown-ups get a gated area of their own. Behind a simple multiplication question, a parent chooses exactly which languages appear on their child's home screen, so a family learning two languages sees two, not seventeen. Progress is always kept, whatever is switched on. ### WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT - Seventeen languages, each with its own animated world, mascot and greeting - Swahili, Twi, Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, Zulu and Amharic as full courses - A lesson trail to follow, with chapters, stars and a daily goal ring - Flip cards, tap-to-answer questions and spelling tiles — no keyboard needed - Real voices where they exist; an honest written guide where they don't — never a fake one - Grown-ups area to choose which languages your child sees - Hearts that offer a hint instead of ending the game - Works in light and dark, supports larger text, and respects Reduce Motion - Progress saved on device — streak, XP, words learned and per-language mastery ### HOW IT WORKS 1. Pick a world — seventeen to choose from. 2. Choose a level and follow the trail to the next lesson. 3. Meet each word on a flip card, and hear it or read how to say it. 4. Answer by tapping — choices or letter tiles, never a keyboard. 5. Earn stars, keep the streak alive, and grow your mastery.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bo Speak Learn Language at none against Selam's 3. Selam's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Selam sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month. Bo Speak Learn Language asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Selam | Bo Speak Learn Language |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (143 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 76.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 143 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 71 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Selam Labs LLC | Cozy Suites Realty LLC |
In-app purchases
Selam
- Monthly Plan$12.991 Month
- Founding Member3 Days trial$79.991 Year
- Annual Plan3 Days trial$89.991 Year
Bo Speak Learn Language
No in-app purchases
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