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Skloňuj Mini Review: Czech Cases and Declension Practice

Skloňuj

Price:

Free

Summary

Declension is one of the trickiest parts of learning Czech and can be hard to grasp at first. Skloňuj is a web-based declension trainer that helps learners practice noun declension across all seven noun cases using vocabulary that matches their specific CEFR level. Answers are explained through paradigms instead of just memorization. There are some multi-step questions that ask for the paradigm and gender of the word before declining it. In addition to teaching declining nouns, Skloňuj uses adaptive drills to target your weakest areas and help you practice pronoun declension as well as adjective-noun agreements. Skloňuj is synced with Krok za krokem, a very popular Czech textbook, and you can select a specific chapter and practice only the cases and vocabulary covered there. Furthermore, Skloňuj has a classroom integration feature that allows teachers to implement it in their classrooms. They can create custom assignments, monitor student accuracy, and flag struggling students. 

Existing declension resources like Umíme česky, Czech Practice, Decline are often geared towards native speakers, offering simple reference tables or quizzes with limited flexibility. Skloňuj instead emphasizes paradigms, adjective-noun agreement, and progress tracking over single-question drills.

Keep in mind that not all of the Krok za krokem chapters are available. You may also come across some minor sentence errors or awkward phrasing, though it’s being audited for correctness. However, if you want a structured way to practice Czech declension, Skloňuj is worth a try.

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Avatalks Mini Review: Conversational Practice for All Levels

Avatalks

Price:

Freemium; $19 .99/Month, $119.88/Year

Summary

If you’re looking for a way to practice conversation, but have no access to native speakers, you might like Avatalks.

Avatalks aims to immerse learners in conversations through interactions with AI avatars to make speaking practice engaging and help you build confidence. With over 20 languages to choose from, Avatalks is well suited for beginner to advanced learners who are looking to sharpen their conversational skills.

The platform offers conversation practice with emotionally expressive AI characters that guide and correct you in real time, making practice feel more natural. Instead of simply memorizing words, you’ll have conversations about topics that interest you, receive feedback, and build your speaking confidence. Interactive grammar & vocabulary lessons are integrated directly into the chats. For vocabulary, Avatalks uses a Spaced Repetition System to help you build and retain vocabulary. You can also save words that need more attention and revisit them later. For grammar, sentence rules are presented through bite‑sized tips and practice drills. These lessons allow you to apply what you’ve learned in conversations immediately. During the conversations, the platform uses a speech recognition system to provide pronunciation feedback instantly. Furthermore, Avatalks adapts to your level, pace, and learning style to ensure your learning experience is more personalized and efficient so as you progress, the content adjusts accordingly. You can also track your progress with Insights to monitor your improvement over time.

What sets Avatalks apart from similar resources like Duolingo, LingoChamp or Speakly, is the dynamic back-and-forth conversations with emotive AI avatars. The combination of grammar and vocabulary lessons along with real-time feedback offers a more interactive and immersive experience.

The app is still new, so while its core features are robust for major languages, some language-specific content, like advanced Korean grammar, is still in development. It also requires a stable internet connection to function. Nevertheless, Avatalks provides an engaging and personalized way to learn a language without feeling overwhelmed.

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OkyDoky App Mini Review: Interactive Lessons with Lots of Speaking Practice

OkyDoky App

Price:

$4.99/Month (7 day free trial), $29.99/Year (7 day free trial), $49.99/Lifetime

Summary

If you’re in search of a language resource that lets you learn at your own pace and gives you plenty of real-life conversation practice, you might want to check out OkyDoky.

OkyDoky is a language learning app that aims to make your learning process fun by combining interactive methods with customizable learning paths. It is suitable for beginners to advanced learners, and offers courses for a variety of languages. The lessons include different kinds of exercises to help you sharpen your listening skills and improve spelling. 

The app offers courses for 38 languages, including some that you won’t find on other apps, like European Portuguese, Icelandic, and Macedonian. You can also learn from any of the available languages if you prefer. This option makes it easy to learn your target language in a language that you already know, be it your native language or just another language you’re fluent in. With the Plus membership, you can learn as many languages as you’d like. The app is super flexible, so whether you want to follow a structured plan or tackle specific topics like verbs, nouns, or phrases, OkyDoky allows you to tailor the courses to your preference. There are also word-by-word audio and translations, along with simple grammar tips and transliterations for non-Latin scripts. If you want to practice speaking, the Live AI Tutor, simulates real conversations to help you practice. You’ll be able to use the vocabulary and grammar that you learn in actual speech and improve your overall language proficiency.

What sets OkyDoky apart from apps like Duolingo and Ling App is its focus on providing a wider range of language pairs, real-life conversation practice, and practical sentences in every course. The AI tutor also gives you the chance to practice speaking, and you get grammar explanations for each sentence, which is generally not found in these apps.

OkyDoky doesn’t offer an introduction to the script for languages with unique alphabets, and languages without text-to-speech support on iOS may have less accurate speech recognition on the Live feature. That said, it is a great tool if you’re looking for an engaging and adaptable language resource to develop or polish your language skills.

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LanguagePod101 — All Languages, Pod101 and Class101

Updated November 20, 2023

If you want a language learning podcast that consistently adds new content to keep you motivated, you will find the “Pod101” and “Class101” series quite useful.

One great thing about LanguagePod101 programs is that they do publish new content ALL THE TIME. And their pricing structure allows language learners of any mastery and commitment levels to find contents that are useful. The pricing starts at a mere few dollars per month, and the top subscription called Premium PLUS gives learners personal feedback and a personalized program to follow.

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Mondly Review

Mondly Review – Is Mondly Worth It?

Rating 2.7
★★
★
★★★

Summary

Mondly is a language-learning app that teaches basic vocabulary and grammar structures. It seems most appropriate for learners with little to no exposure to their target language.

The activities mostly rely on passive recognition of vocabulary and phrases, and therefore are not very challenging. However, they are varied enough that you probably wouldn’t get bored with short, daily practice sessions.

Although I wouldn’t recommend Mondly to anyone looking to seriously learn a language, it may be appropriate for individuals studying languages with less available resources, or for individuals who are preparing to travel abroad.

Quality 3.0
★★★★★

Both the interface and the course itself could be designed better. *Edited on Nov 22* It has made many improvements this year. We will update soon.

Thoroughness 2.5
★★
★
★★★

It’s decent for learning vocabulary, but I thought a lot of the material wasn’t explained very well.

Value 3.0
★★★★★

It’s fairly inexpensive.

I Like
  • Daily lessons, weekly quizzes, and monthly challenges – these functionalities encourage you to practice every day.
  • The vocabulary included is useful and drilled in an effective way.
  • It’s fairly inexpensive.
I Don’t Like
  • The content and exercises are the same for all levels and languages.
  • The exercises are mostly passive.
  • I don’t think the order of lessons and topics is very well thought out.
  • For me, the interface is not user friendly and the platform is visually unappealing.
Price

There are three plans… $9.99 per month for one language $47.99 per year for one language and $89.99 for Lifetime Access to all languages.

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LingQ Review

LingQ Review – Extensive Reading Made Easy

LingQ

Rating 4.0
★★★★★

Summary

LingQ is a language-learning platform that focuses on extensive reading for over 30 different languages. You can import your own content or choose from the community library of books, articles, podcasts, YouTube videos, and more.

The app highlights unknown words across every lesson and makes them reviewable via different types of SRS flashcards. The more you read, the more accurately you will be able to identify content that is suitable for your level.

Although I did not find it beneficial for languages I had never studied before, I think LingQ can be helpful for upper-beginner to advanced language learners who enjoy reading. It is especially helpful if you struggle to find graded readers in your target language.

Quality 4.0
★★★★★

The LingQ reading app is enjoyable in most languages, easy to use, and can expand your vocabulary. However, I found the user content frustrating to navigate.

Thoroughness 4.0
★★★★★

With the import function, users can choose to study almost anything they want.

Value 4.0
★★★★★

Now that other apps provide similar functions, the monthly subscription may be a bit overpriced. However, the yearly subscription seems fair.

I Like
  • I can easily import almost any material I want to study.
  • I can use SRS flashcards to quiz new words from a specific page.
  • Each lesson in the library displays the percentage of known and unknown words based on my reading history.
  • There are many dictionaries to choose from for definitions.
I Don’t Like
  • Reviewing words is chaotic. Every word you look up gets added to a huge queue that quickly becomes unmanageable.
  • The extra features are overpriced and can be found other places for cheaper.
  • Very little of the content is original. Much of it was uploaded by users from other places.
  • The free version is extremely limited.
Price

Premium membership costs $14.99/mo, $119.88/year, $215.76/2-years; single-language lifetime membership costs $229

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When I first signed up for LingQ, I wasn’t very impressed. Its seemingly random lesson library, filled with custom cover photos and inconsistent title formats, made me want to click on just about anything to get away from that page.

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Verbling Review

Verbling Review: Online Classes With Helpful Revision Tools

Rating 4.6
★★★★
★
★

Summary

Verbling is an online language-class marketplace where you can take lessons with teachers of your choice. It has some student-friendly extra features, including a built-in online classroom, flashcards, homework calendar, and a filing system for lesson materials. There are also useful but disorganized forums where you can discuss languages, share writing for critique, and do free language drills and exercises.

The lessons are generally high quality and well structured, plus the filters make it easy to find teachers who specialize in everything from accent reduction to interview preparation. 

However, it can be slightly pricier than alternatives, so if you’re on a tight budget, you may want to look elsewhere. It also has fewer languages than some of the bigger competitors, so it might not be a good choice if you want to study Azerbaijani, Khmer, or Yoruba.

Quality 4.5
★★★★
★
★

There are some less experienced teachers, but I found the lessons to be more consistently high quality than on italki.

Thoroughness 5.0
★★★★★

The classroom technology, flashcards, and filing system are fantastic for learners and easy to use.

Value 4.5
★★★★
★
★

Some teachers charge more than on italki, but you get better classroom technology, more privacy, and fewer disorganized teachers.

I Like
  • I quickly found great teachers.
  • The platform’s extra features, such as teacher-made, personalized flashcards, help you review the material learned in each lesson.
  • It seems focused on long-term progression as well as immediate student satisfaction.
  • You don’t have to give out your contact details, thanks to the classroom technology.
I Don’t Like
  • Some teachers don’t use the platform’s flashcards and materials system.
  • There are fewer languages available than on italki.
  • You can only pay in US dollars, plus there’s a hidden fee.
  • The forums need more moderation.
Price

Prices are set by the teacher and range from $6 to $75+ for an hour-long lesson. You can get discounts for buying packs of 5 or 10 lessons with a teacher. Every new student gets one free trial lesson, after which they’re $6 each.

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I’ve got a confession to make: italki is one of my least favorite online language-learning resources. However, it was my go-to option for a long time, and I understand why people love it: it’s cheap, has teachers in nearly every language imaginable, and the app has a bunch of extra community features.

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Elon.io Mini Review: Quickly Learn Vocabulary and Grammar

Elon.io

Price:

Freemium; $9.99/Month

Summary

Looking for a language resource that keeps things simple, effective, and fast? Elon.io might be exactly what you need.

Elon.io is a web-based app that’s designed to help you learn languages quickly. With over 25 languages available—and more to come—the platform focuses on teaching through sentence translation. Each sentence has grammar explanations, which you can skip if you’ve already mastered the grammar. You can also sign up for a free account to keep track of your progress. 

The courses are practically endless. When you get to the end of a course, a new lesson is automatically generated, ensuring that you’re always progressing and never running out of learning content. The AI translation is very good, producing high quality material that gets more complex as you advance. Additionally, Elon.io implements a spaced repetition system to ensure you retain new vocabulary more efficiently. Furthermore, there is a built-in Q&A feature for every sentence that provides answers to any of your grammar related questions. 

Compared to Duolingo and similar apps, Elon.io helps you learn faster. After just 10 lessons, you’ll have learned 900 words and lots of grammar, including tenses. 

The platform does have a couple of downsides—if you’re away for a while, you might come back having to do just reviews before learning new lessons. Also, the interface isn’t as refined as other apps, but with an almost infinite lesson library to help boost your vocabulary and grammar, Elon.io is a great resource to try out.

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