Comments on: 5 of the Best Language Apps: Which Is Right for You? https://toomanyadapters.com/best-language-apps/ Tech gear, gadgets, reviews, and advice Sun, 13 Jun 2021 23:21:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Beth https://toomanyadapters.com/best-language-apps/#comment-740276 https://toomanyadapters.com/?p=23367#comment-740276 In reply to Sandro.

There’s a program called Mango. I think it’s a paid program, and I don’t know how much it costs, but a lot of libraries offer free access to it. The lessons can be put on auto play. I like listening to it at work. It’s entirely auditory, so you don’t have to look at it at all. It plays the sentences at normal speed, then says each word separately and slowly.

]]> By: Sandro https://toomanyadapters.com/best-language-apps/#comment-726240 https://toomanyadapters.com/?p=23367#comment-726240 What I really want is an app that’s interactive and auditory. I’m a professional driver, so I’m sitting at the wheel for an average of ten hours a day, alone in my truck. And while there are moments that require significant concentration, 95% of it is just keeping everything inside the lines. It would be nice to be able to accomplish something secondarily productive with that time, but obviously anything that requires me to take my visual attention away from the road is right out. Pimsleur may work, but I’m hoping for something I can really hammer on, and 30 minutes a day is… significantly less than what I’m looking for.

]]> By: Laurence Goldman https://toomanyadapters.com/best-language-apps/#comment-655225 https://toomanyadapters.com/?p=23367#comment-655225 I’ve used Pimsleur for Spanish and I find it great for someone like me who sucks at languages. It teaches as close to the way a child learns as it can get,building on one simple phrase, repeating over and over with variations, and slowly adding new stuff. It was the first time I was able to speak sentences, as opposed to single words. The downside is limited vocabulary building, and stays almost exclusively with present tense. However, after Pimsleur you’re in great shape to continue with more advanced study. Highly recommended.

]]> By: Don Squires https://toomanyadapters.com/best-language-apps/#comment-654666 https://toomanyadapters.com/?p=23367#comment-654666 Babbel is also useful. Compared to Duolingo it places more emphasis on grammar. Unfortunately it is not free, but I finds its grammatical focus helpful for learning German.

]]> By: Kate https://toomanyadapters.com/best-language-apps/#comment-654329 https://toomanyadapters.com/?p=23367#comment-654329 Great post! I’ve used Duolingo to learn Spanish and now Swedish and it’s great. It’s really easy to use and helps give a good understanding of the basics. I will admit, sometimes the phrases it has you learn are a bit odd, for example, “You are eating my dog’s food” – not really sure when I will use this – but overall it’s been a huge help in learning languages.

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