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Speaky

Quick Review

3.7 

Summary:

Speaky is a social language-learning app for people interested in language exchange. It’s available for iOS, Android, and the web. Users can chat with other language learners, share photos, leave voice messages or even have voice calls. The basic features on Speaky are free to use, but access to more than five translations per day requires a subscription.

Community

There are some dedicated language learners on Speaky but not as many as similar apps.

Features

The platform is easy to use but lacks advanced features.

Value

Speaky is mostly free to use, extra features are available for a subscription.

Languages

There are over 100 languages on Speaky. These include popular languages like Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Russian, Portuguese, Italian, Arabic, etc.

Price

The basic features on Speaky are free to use. A premium membership is available for a subscription.

1-month Subscription $5.99/month
6-month Subscription $4.83/month
12-month Subscription $3.91/month

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Rype App

Quick Review

1.8 

Summary:

Rype is a resource that provides language learners with access to one-on-one lessons with teachers. According to its advertising, you’ll be able to “Learn anytime, anywhere, on-the-go.” Users purchase a subscription package that contains a certain number of lessons per month. The lessons are 30-minutes long and are easy to schedule.

Platform

The platform is very easy to use, but there aren’t many teacher details and lessons take place on Skype.

Teachers

There seems to be a range of experience levels on Rype and a very small number of teachers.

Value

The hourly rates are higher than similar online tutor options and you have to commit to a subscription.

Price

The price varies per subscription package and number of lessons each month.

Number of Lessons  Six-Month Subscription  Monthly Subscription
8 Lessons/month $59.99/month $79.99
12 Lessons/month $84.99/month $99.99
20 Lessons/month $159.99/month $179.99
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Lingvist

Quick Review

4 

Summary:

Lingvist is a language learning resource that uses spaced repetition and flashcards to help you build your vocabulary in a new language. There are five language courses made for English speakers, and some of these have an extra challenges section with additional reading, speaking, grammar, and listening practice. Lingvist is straightforward, easy to use, and most effective for beginners or intermediate learners.

Quality

The interface is easy to use and practice is enjoyable, but the grammar explanations aren’t great.

Thoroughness

The vocabulary practice is great, but the additional features are somewhat limited and vary by language.

Value

A subscription isn’t super expensive, but it isn’t the best resource for a comprehensive education.

Price

Lingvist is available for a recurring subscription period of one month, three months, or one year.

Subscription Length  Monthly Price (Billing price)
One month $19.99
Three months $13.33 ($39.99)
One year $6.67 ($79.99)

Languages

German, French, Russian, Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Latin America)

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Busuu

Quick Review

3.3 

Summary:

Busuu is a digital language-learning app with over 90 million registered users. The resource offers vocabulary and grammar practice through short, self-paced study exercises. It also has a social aspect that allows users to get writing and pronunciation feedback from native speakers. It is available on the web, iOS, and Android.

Quality

The layout is great, and the quality for non-Asian languages is decent, but there were significant errors in the Chinese course.

Thoroughness

It has some good explanations but doesn’t often offer much in the way of in-depth explanations.

Value

Busuu is relatively inexpensive, but there are more thorough and efficient resources out there.

Price

Premium Subscriptions

One month: $9.99
Three months: $24.99 ($8.33/month)
Six months: $34.92 ($5.82/month)

Premium Plus Subscriptions

One month: $13.99
Three months: $28.98 ($9.66/month)
Six months: $39.96 ($6.66/month)

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Word Dive

Quick Review

2.8 

Summary:

Word Dive uses artificial intelligence and short exercises to help language learners commit study items to long-term memory. The app provides instruction in ten languages and is available for desktop, iOS, and Android.

Quality

It’s very easy to use, but I thought the material was limited.

Thoroughness

You can practice vocabulary and grammar, but there are almost no grammar explanations.

Value

It isn’t very expensive, but other resources are similarly priced and more comprehensive.

Price

Word Dive is available for a subscription.

Subscription Period Price/Month Payment Scheme
Monthly $9.99 Renews automatically
Three months $9.33 One time payment of $27.99
Six months $8.00 One time payment of $47.99
One year $6.67 One time payment of $79.99

Languages

English, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Swedish, Japanese, Estonian, Russian, and Italian.

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By Brian Afrikaans Albanian Arabic Armenian Azerbaijani Belarusian Bengali Bulgarian Cantonese Catalan Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Filipino Finnish French German Greek Haitian Creole Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Irish Italian Japanese Korean Kurdish Latin Latvian Lithuanian Malay Mandarin Chinese Norwegian Pashto Polish Portuguese Punjabi Romanian Russian Serbian Slovak Spanish Swahili Swedish Tamil Thai Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Vietnamese

HiNative

Quick Review

3.7 

Summary:

HiNative is a Q&A app for language learners that want to have questions answered by native speakers. It’s available for iOS, Android and desktop, and it has over three million registered users. A free version is available that offers the basic features of the app.

Platform

The app is pretty basic, but it works.

Features

Many users are very helpful, but not all questions receive intelligent responses.

Value

The basic functions of the app are available for free, but you’ll need to pay for audio or video features.

Price

The basic features of HiNative are free to use. A premium subscription is available for $5.68/month paid monthly, or $4.96/month paid annually (a $59.63 payment).

Languages

HiNative supports just about any language.

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By Brian Afrikaans Ainu Albanian Arabic Armenian Assamese Austrian German Avar Aymara Azerbaijani Balinese Bavarian Belarusian Bengali Berber (Tamazight) Bhojpuri Brazilian Sign Language (LIBRAS) Breton Bulgarian Burmese Cantonese Catalan Cebuano Chavacano Chechen Cherokee Chewa (Chichewa) Choctaw Cornish Corsican Cree Croatian Czech Danish Dutch Dzongkha English Esperanto Estonian Ewe Faroese Fijian (ITaukei) Filipino Finnish French Galician Georgian German Greek Greenlandic Guarani Gujarati Haitian Creole Hebrew Hindi Hmong Hokkien (Taiwanese) Hungarian Icelandic Ido Igbo Indonesian Ingush Irish Italian Japanese Korean Kurdish Latin Latvian Lithuanian Malay Mandarin Chinese Norwegian Pashto Persian Polish Portuguese Punjabi Romanian Russian Serbian Slovak Spanish Swahili Swedish Tamil Thai Turkish Twi Ukrainian Urdu Vietnamese

Tandem

Quick Review

4.7 

Summary:

Tandem is a popular language exchange app with over one million active users. It’s available for iOS and Android and aims to bring language learners from all over the world together. It’s largely centered around its chat capabilities and language tools that facilitate communication, but there is also a tutoring service offered in the app.

Community 

There are lots of active language learners, especially those looking to pair with native English speakers.

Features 

The interface is intuitive and the language tools are simple and effective, though you’ll quickly run out of free translations.

Value

The free version is all most people will need. Tandem Pro doesn’t add a ton of extra value.

Price

There is a limited free version of Tandem and a pro version available at $6.99 for one month, $3.99/month for three months, and $2.92/month for a year’s subscription.

Languages

There are over 160 languages offered on Tandem.

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By Magdalena Azerbaijani Arabic Aramaic Armenian Bengali Cantonese Cherokee Croatian Czech Danish Dari Dutch Dzongkha English Filipino Finnish French German Greek Haitian Creole Hawaiian Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Igbo Indonesian Irish Italian Japanese Javanese Kazakh Korean Latin Malay Malayalam Mandarin Chinese Norwegian Pashto Persian Polish Portuguese Punjabi Romanian Russian Scottish Serbian Slovak Spanish Swahili Swedish Tamil Telugu Thai Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Uzbek Vietnamese Yiddish

Mango Languages

Quick Review

3.5 

Summary:

Mango Languages is a pretty good resource with numerous languages available along with their regional variations.  It’ll work the best for beginners or for those interested in studying a few languages at the same time. Anybody past the intermediate level won’t find Mango Languages very useful.

Quality

It is well designed, has a beautiful interface, and is intuitive to use.

Thoroughness

There are some gaps in terms of writing and grammar, along with a lack of materials for intermediate or higher level students.

Value

The price is fair and will give you access to materials for over 70 languages.

Price

A subscription to Mango Languages costs $7.99/mo for one language or $17.99/mo for all languages.

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Alternatives: Babbel and Lingodeer are somewhat similar but a bit better, while Duolingo is free.

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Babbel

Quick Review

4.2 

Summary:

Babbel is an online language-learning platform with over 1 million active users. It’s available on the web, for iOS, and for Android. The app aims to get learners to a conversational level as quickly as possible through the use of a variety of exercises and spaced repetition for review. The courses are well put together and relatively inexpensive; there are 14 different languages available.

Quality

It’s well-designed and the content is immediately useful.

Thoroughness

The material provided is effective and covers a lot, but isn’t ideal for advanced levels.

Value

The price is relatively low for what’s offered, but you’ll have to purchase each language separately.

Price

Babbel uses a recurring subscription model and offers a 20-day money-back guarantee. Price per month depends on the length of the subscription and only includes access to one language.

Monthly – $13.95/mo
Every 3 Months – $9.95/mo
Every 6 Months – $8.45/mo
Every year – $6.95/mo

The prices listed here are for customers in the United States; they otherwise vary by region.

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By Alex Afrikaans Arabic Armenian Basque Belarusian Breton Bulgarian Cantonese Catalan Cornish Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Esperanto Estonian Filipino Finnish French Galician Georgian German Greek Guarani Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Irish Italian Japanese Kazakh Korean Latin Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Mandarin Chinese Norwegian Persian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Scottish Serbian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swedish Turkish Ukrainian Vietnamese Welsh Yiddish

Clozemaster

Quick Review

4.2 

Summary:

Ideal for people who are already at an upper beginner/intermediate level, Clozemaster will help you build your vocabulary and learn new words and sentences in context. While you won’t learn much grammar or improve your speaking and writing much, it is great at what it does and the videogame aspect makes it fun and addictive to work though. Although the exercises are all pretty much identical, there are various ways in which you can increase the difficulty and Clozemaster’s free account is almost as good as the Pro User one.

Quality

Very easy to use with thousands upon thousands of sentences for you to work through, Clozemaster’s main exercises are well-designed though some features are a bit hit and miss.

Thoroughness

Although you aren’t given any explanations, Clozemaster’s huge database of sentences allows you to learn words in context.

Value

The free version offers a ton of value, but for those who use Clozemaster regularly, it may be worth upgrading to a Pro account.

Price

The free version is very useful, but you can upgrade to a pro account for $8/month or $60/year.

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