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OwnSlides Mini Review: Learn, Practice, and Chat With an AI Tutor

OwnSlides

Price:

Freemium, Basic-€4.99, Pro-€9.99, Premium-€19.99

Summary

OwnSlides is a web based language learning platform designed for both learners and educators. It covers 91 languages and the interface supports 21 languages. OwnSlides combines an AI tutor, flashcards, interactive exercises, a dictionary, and translator, so you don’t need separate apps for each one. The content follows a CEFR curriculum and the platform builds you a personalized study plan based on your level. The AI tutor works for both voice and text chats, correcting mistakes and explaining what you got right and what to review. For each voice session, you also get scored on your pronunciation with visual articulation guidance. Voice conversations work in all 91 languages, but pronunciation scoring is limited to 24 languages. If you prefer to practice speaking with real people instead of AI, OwnSlides matches you with real learners at your level for voice chats, or you can join scheduled speaking rooms. The dictionary and translator are especially helpful when you need to look something up. Furthermore, you can aslo track your progress, earn streaks and join weekly competitions with leaderboards.

For teachers, OwnSlides can be handy in the classroom. You describe what you want to teach, and the platform generates a complete lesson. You can organize lessons into collections, assign them to students and track them through the analytics dashboard. As the name suggests, verified teachers can export lessons as slides or to their social media platforms to reach more learners.

Keep in mind that AI often misses small nuances so its important to still get practice with real people as much as you can. There’s also a lot packed into the app and it may take a bit of getting used to. Signing up is free and most of the core feature are also free. The AI features run on a credit system and free users can buy credit packages as needed. The paid plans however, include a larger monthly credit allowance. OwnSlides is still fairly new with a small user base, expect a few bugs here and there. That said, if you want a resource that covers a lot in one place, OwnSlides is worth trying.

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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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All Learning Resources Danish

70+ Danish Learning Resources – A Comprehensive Resource List

Finding your preferred Danish learning resources can be a challenge. We’ve compiled various Danish resources that’ll be essential in your language-learning journey.

Explore this list of Danish language resources, featuring lots of free resources and tools to help make your learning experience more worthwhile.

Check out our Deep Dive to Learning Dansk to help you as you start learning Danish.

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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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Click the icon to visit the site for the language you want. Purchase or just check it out. Happy Learning!

You can also read ALR independent reviews for each language’s program in the following section.

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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 several options… $9.99 per month for one language, $47.99 per year for one language

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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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AmazingTalker Mini Review: Not Our Top Pick for Web Classes

AmazingTalker

Rating 2.5
★★
★
★★★
Price:

From around $10 per 50-minute class

Summary

AmazingTalker is an italki and Verbling competitor that lets you book classes with language teachers and academic tutors of your choice. It has a lot of attractive features for students, but teachers complain about high commission rates and lack of support. It boasts a 3% acceptance rate for teachers and a 100% satisfaction guarantee. If you’re not happy with your class, they’ll rebook you another one for free. There are lots of teachers to choose from, or you can also use their AI Matching Service to find a tutor. The teachers’ profiles include videos, reviews, and their résumé. However, AmazingTalker doesn’t seem a great choice for teachers. It charges English and Japanese teachers astonishingly high commission rates of up to 30%. While these rates fall as teachers earn more through the site, they have to make $1,500 a month before the commission reaches levels comparable to italki and Verbling. Making it worse, there’s an additional 8% fee for payment processing and tax that all teachers have to pay, no matter what language they teach.  There have also been complaints on Reddit from teachers claiming to have been harassed by students and fellow teachers. However, we cannot corroborate these. Given all this, we’d recommend trying italki (review) or Verbling (review) first. Alternatively, check out our guide to the best platforms for online language classes.

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