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Targumi Mini Review: 100+ Language Courses and Live Classes

Targumi

Price:

Free, Premium – €99 / month, €199 / 3 months, €399 / Lifetime

Summary

Targumi is a language learning resource that aims to help learners delevop their language skills through a combination of structured self-paced courses and live lessons.
The platform offers more than 100 languages, dialects and regional varieties, including widely studied languages (Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, French, Korean and Spanish) as well as less commonly taught languages and dialects (Lingala, Wolof, and several varieties of Arabic).
Targumi offers free learning materials that you can start with; level tests, essential vocabulary lists, survival kits, audio content, and exercises before moving on to the more structured courses with interactive lessons. These lessons focus on practical language, emphasizing useful vocabulary, dialogues, listening comprehension and communication in realistic situations rather than teaching isolated grammar. You’ll also have access to live sessions with native speaking teachers, and here you’ll have the chance to use what you learnt in real interactions and even receive feedback to help you improve. While many language resources focus mainly on self-paced learning and others on live tutoring, Targumi combines both approaches across lots of languages and language varieties.
Although course content, teacher availability, and live classes vary by language, Targumi can be a good fit for learners who want structured language courses, guided instruction and practice opportunities.

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35+ Resources For Learning Malay – Lots of Free Options!

Take a look at our list of resources for learning Malay. This list features lots of beginner-friendly resources in Malay as well as free ones.

Some of these Malay learning resources are comprehensive and others cater to helping you practice and improve specific language skills. We’re sure you’ll find those that best meet your language needs.

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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.

Visit Language Learning Programs in the LanguagePod101 Series

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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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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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.

Visit Elon.io

To see all of our self-study guides, favorite programs, online subscriptions, apps, podcasts, and YouTubes for the language you’re learning, look for your language in the table below.

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My Language Exchange Mini-Review: Millions of Active Users

My Language Exchange

Rating 4.2
★★★★
★
★
Price:

Freemium, Gold Memberships start at $6/mo

Summary

My Language Exchange has been growing since 2000. Although the website seems out of date, it still has an active community of millions of language-learners who speak almost 200 native languages (including less commonly studied languages). You can choose a pen pal by reading their bios, or there is a chat room available for you to instantly connect with a language exchange partner — note that if you create a Gold account, you can initiate chats with other users, but as a regular user, you will have to wait to be contacted. Using the Cormier Method, the website provides tools to help intermediate speakers effectively practice with other learners. It advertises a Chat Companion with lesson plans to accompany your exchange, or lesson plans developed by teachers (although the quality of these resources varies drastically).  You can also find language teachers on the site, but given that the transactions take place directly between you and the teacher, you may feel safer using a 3rd party platform like italki or Verbling.  Although there are outlines on how to participate in language exchanges, how these outlines are followed depends entirely on you and your partner(s). My Language Exchange will help you build connections with other learners, but it’s up to you to plan how to practice. The concepts can also be used with any language exchange platform, such as Lingbe, italki, Tandem, and Amikumu.

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Lexilogos Mini-Review: A Resource Bank For Dictionaries and Books

lexilogos

Rating 3.5
★★★
★
★★
Price:

Free

Summary

Although Lexilogos seems to have entirely neglected its aesthetics, it holds more than meets the eye. If you click on one of the 130+ languages listed at the bottom of the page, you will find a series of resources to support your studies. This is especially useful for less-studied languages, like Marathi, Basque, and Pashto. Although the lists don’t provide recommendations for applications, they do provide a list of dictionaries, keyboards, news sites, books, and research papers. Additionally, if you switch to the French version of the site, there are even more languages and resources available for you to explore. Within each language’s page, there is also a dictionary search function. You will notice that more commonly studied languages will have dozens of dictionaries to choose from, while less commonly studied languages may only have one or two. Overall, Lexilogos is a great option for finding resources for less commonly studied languages. They regularly update their site, so make sure to check back if you don’t find what you’re looking for the first time around.

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