Teacher Quality
You’ll find everyone from long-time professionals to brand new teachers.
You’ll find everyone from long-time professionals to brand new teachers.
The overall platform has tons of useful features but also some room for improvement.
Huge number of teachers, low prices, and flexible scheduling.
There are large numbers of teachers available even for less common languages.
You can find skilled teachers even at low prices.
The flexibility to schedule lessons whenever convenient. The huge number of teachers guarantees you’ll find someone to fit your schedule.
The extra features in the italki Community make it easy to ask questions, get your writing checked, and find a free language exchange partner.
Community features are only available through the app.
You may need to try several tutors before finding one that fits your learning and personality style.
It’s easy to not take classes as often as you should.
The prices vary by teacher and language with some being as low as $4 and others as high as $60 per hour. Most will fall somewhere near the $10 per hour range. Right now italki is offering a $10 credit with your first purchase.
*Use this link to purchase a minimum of $20 (US) of Italki credits and receive an extra $10 free! (Bonus added after completion of 1st lesson)*
It’s nice to have native speaker audio, but I personally found the course to offer very little learning potential.
The course didn’t cover everything listed under “Course Content” and offers no explanations.
This course is way overpriced in my opinion. I wouldn’t even use it if it were free.
Audio by a variety of native speakers.
I wanted more explanations
Practice opportunities felt severely limited
I found the material unengaging
Content doesn’t build on itself logically.
There are courses in over 160 languages on Cudoo. You’ll find languages as rare as Alsatian, Jerriais, and Navajo alongside more popular languages like Spanish and German.
Price varies by course, from $4.99 to $24.99, with language bundles costing up to $199.
The mobile app looks great and is easy to use, but the website is clunky. Works very well for memorization.
There are quite a few official Memrise courses, and the number of user-created courses is massive, but you’ll benefit from using additional resources.
The free version of the app provides a lot of value, but the paid version doesn’t offer much more.
The spaced repetition software is effective for memorization
The huge range of available content
It’s more interactive than other flashcard apps
It’s not enough for continued language learning
Website navigation is clunky
Premium version isn’t much more valuable than the free version
There are currently official Memrise courses for 21 languages.
Among others, these include: Spanish, French, Chinese, German, Italian, Arabic, Korean, Japanese, Russian.
If you count the user-generated courses, the list of languages is nearly endless.
For the full version of Memrise, the subscription prices are:
$8.99/monthly
$59.99/annually
$139.99 – lifetime subscription
Signing up for a free account with Memrise automatically gives you access to limited versions of their official courses.
The app is very user-friendly, and the content is mostly useful, but little variation in practice activities can become repetitive.
The app does a good job of teaching key words and phrases, but review opportunities aren’t as transparent or comprehensive as they could be.
The price is very low, there’s a lot of content, and the right learner could get some serious practical use out of the resource.
The number of languages on offer is staggering.
Each phrase is recorded by a male and female native speaker. This was especially helpful in learning pronunciation.
You frequently get to hear recordings of yourself producing the language. I found this motivating and informative.
The Memory Game exercise felt like a waste of time. It’s difficult to get a perfect score even if you know the language well.
I kept wishing there was a way to choose which phrases I could practice in games instead of them being randomly selected.
$2.99/month on a monthly basis and can be canceled at any time
$1.67/month for a year-long subscription
$1.00/month for a two-year subscription
*This is the price for the more popular languages like Spanish, German, Arabic, etc. Less common languages such as Afrikaans and Tibetan cost slightly more.