I quite like busuu for Spanish so far. It is a lot better than Duolingo trash as it actually explains things rather than just throwing stuff at you that is often incorrect anyway.
I started using Busuu yesterday: I like it too for the languages they have, and while they don’t have all languages they make up for it with good learning materials.
Though I’m not sure about the inclusive words for French due to my convictions as a Christian.
What do you mean by “I’m not sure about the inclusive words for French due to my convictions as a Christian”?
Oh, there’s a new course on Busuu for French that I don’t like that deals with inclusive terms I’m probably not confortable talking about anymore since they deal with genders and sexuality.
I’m trying to be a Christian instead and not talk about those things in my faith, but that doesn’t mean I’ll be learning what is supposed to be teaching me French with weird terminology.
For Japanese specifically, I’m using Renshuu (free) and Wanikani for kanji ($9/mo) and loving both of them.
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I’ve enjoyed using Mango. It’s always been free but there’s a paid version now too. It dives right into useful conversation, but gives cultural context before, like formal/informal or when certain phrases are used. It has flash cards built between lessons to help with memorization and you can even record your pronunciation and hear/see the audio clip and how it compares to how you are saying it. It also has the ability to download lessons for offline use. I first used it because it was one of the only apps/websites that specifically taught the Levantine dialect of Arabic not found on other apps.
I like Language Transfer. It’s free and you can download the episodes for offline listening.
I second this. I have learned four languages aside from my native English, and Language Transfer is easily the most natural and effective system I have ever used.
My wife has a lot of trouble learning languages, but she found Language Transfer very effective as well.
It’s completely free and relies on donations. I have been a monthly donor on Patreon for about 5 years now.
Thanks for supporting and thus making it available for others!
Rocket languages is pretty decent. In going to their site to link it here, I saw they have a 60% off new years sale going on.
Best practice is to provide non-aff + affiliate link, calling the latter out clearly.
I just searched duckduckgo and linked the website. Not trying to peddle their products. Just thought it’d be more convenient to provide a link. Didn’t realize that it was an affiliate link. Just edited that off the URL.
The best app is whatever you use to consume media in the target language.
The only way to acquire a language is to expose yourself to it in a natural context. You can’t acquire a language just by studying with flashcards or grammar exercises or whatever – any app that offers enhanced versions of those will at best be a minor supplement to actually using the language.
Your comments seems to imply that just using the language is enough to learn it. This is not necesserily true, especially with more complex grammars than english. You need a source to teach you grammar and basic vocabulary, then you use these basics information to roughly understand spoken language and slowly building up your actual vocabulary and consolidate the rules. You cannot skip neither of those two passages
I got a lifetime purchase of Lingodeer a while back, for super cheap during a back to school type sale I want to say in the $70 range. I’m trying to learn German but it has a good number of available languages. I’m not sure how it compares to other apps but I find it works well enough for me
Have you tried Seedlang? That’s been my favorite so far.
I have not, no. Are you using it for German?
Yep. Not as much as I should.
