Best language learning apps on Reddit
89 reviews from r/languagelearning, r/Japaneselanguage, r/VietNam and 10 more subreddits
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#1
Duolingo
3.6
(11)
"Best for grammar"
"Gamified app"
"Enjoy"
"I'm using duolingo for norwegian"
"Good"
"Severely lacking in listening"
"Overall"
"Good for retaining memory because it forces you to repeat the same lesson over and over again before advancing to the next"
"Decent and free"
"Rote learning"
#2
Pimsleur
4.7
(6)
"Best program, teaching style, audio course, able to immediately use the language"
"Get you speaking from the beginning"
"Speaking"
"Pimsleur's course"
"Solid"
"Flashcards"
#3
Babbel
4.4
(5)
"Structured lessons"
"Tried every on the list."
"Beside that, Babbel might be a help for you."
"Developing verb conjugation skills, understanding grammar properly, practicing problem solving skills"
"Short, interesting"
#4
Memrise
4.4
(5)
"Structured lessons"
"Access a list of all the vocabulary I've learned and see which ones I need to work on"
"Great method for improving vocabulary."
"I use memrise for learning vocab"
"It's mainly a phrasebook."
#5
Lingq
4.8
(4)
"Dictionary->flashcard pipeline"
"Flag words for studying later"
"Upper level Italian"
"Similar"
#6
Mango
4.5
(4)
"Best for conversation"
"Good"
"Mango is great"
"Good for learning basic survival phrases"
#7
Tandem
4.3
(3)
"Meeting foreign speakers"
"Deliberate"
"Nice"
#8
Lingodeer
4.3
(3)
"Miles better than duolingo"
"I'm using lingodeer for korean"
"Good"
#9
Chatgpt
5.0
(2)
"Wonderful"
"Amazingly intelligent as a language tutor"
#10
Anki
4.5
(2)
"Helpful"
#11
Innovative
4.5
(2)
"I actually really love Innovative."
"The lessons are easy to listen to and progress well for comprehensible input. The text write-ups and grammar notes are generally pretty good. The flashcard system can really help with pronunciation; it's easy to add most words as flashcards. It goes to a higher level than mo"
#12
Glossika
4.5
(2)
"Get you speaking from the beginning"
"Best for improving my accent"
#13
Mondly
3.5
(2)
"People usually recommend Mondly"
"It's better than nothing"
#14
Brulingua
5.0
(1)
"Free language courses for 20 or so languages from A1 to C1"
#15
Immersive Chinese
5.0
(1)
"Got my Mandarin from literally point 0 to HSK2 and being able to understand HSK3 videos"
#16
Language Transfer
5.0
(1)
"Makes you hear and speak the language, spends a lot of time explaining the grammar, then getting you to use that grammar to make sentences"
#17
Pocket Casts
5.0
(1)
"Glitchiness of that app makes it unpleasant"
#18
Flashcard Apps
5.0
(1)
"Good adrenaline dopamine cocktail"
#19
Kanji Apps
5.0
(1)
"Quizzing app got hiragana and katakana into my head rapidly almost effortlessly"
#20
Speakly
5.0
(1)
"Comprehensible input"
#21
Migaku
5.0
(1)
"You can basically do this with Migaku"
#22
Lingopie
5.0
(1)
"This one is a paid subscription, and it does exactly what you're showing. You watch videos, it could be anime or cooking, and the text in japanese will be shown. Can click to translate, has built in quizzes as well."
#23
Animelon
5.0
(1)
"Subtitles you can hover over every word and get its meaning including its romaji, kanji, and plain hiragana"
#24
Todaii
5.0
(1)
"Similar, short news articles"
#25
Chrome
5.0
(1)
"Language reactor"
#26
Axtongue
5.0
(1)
"Japanese and english lyrics"
#27
Learn Vietnamese With Annie
5.0
(1)
"Far better than Duolingo"
#28
Seedlang
5.0
(1)
"Really good"
#29
Kleo
5.0
(1)
"Wonderful"
#30
Youtube
5.0
(1)
"Greatest voice"
#31
Langi.App
5.0
(1)
"Good"
#32
HelloChinese
4.0
(1)
"Teaches you relevant vocabulary and gives you literal translation to help you understand the grammar structure"
#33
HelloTalk
4.0
(1)
"Problem solved."
#34
Linguno
4.0
(1)
"Good for conjugation practice"
#35
Japanese Sensei
4.0
(1)
"10,000 of the most common Japanese words and has different exercises to learn them"
#36
Umi
4.0
(1)
"Teaches you vocab through short scenes from movies and series in a language"
#37
Deutsch Lernen Durch Hören
4.0
(1)
#38
Youtube Videos And Podcasts
4.0
(1)
"Hunt down comprehensible"
#39
General Purpose Line Software
4.0
(1)
"Lets me watch series in my TL"
#40
Busuu
4.0
(1)
"Teaches you a fair amount of grammar, pronunciation and vocabulary."
#41
LingoLegend
4.0
(1)
"Card based fighting adventure language learning game with a cute and fun story"
#42
Hiragana Times
4.0
(1)
"Gives you articles from japan, some paid most are free. There are voice readings in both english and japanese. You can use furigana, or English translations under each word for the reading."
#43
Lingbe
4.0
(1)
"Seems pretty legit"
#44
Assimil
4.0
(1)
"Good mix of everything"
#45
Innovative Language Learning
4.0
(1)
"Pretty good for audio lessons"
#46
Drops
4.0
(1)
"Uses games to keep me focused"
#47
Duoli
3.0
(1)
"Gamification and animations"
#48
Funpik
3.0
(1)
"App to get you ready for the TOPIK test"
#49
Simya
3.0
(1)
"Simya might have an okay-ish course"
#50
Babble
2.0
(1)
"Learning system felt not very helpful"
#51
Rosetta Stone
2.0
(1)
"Expensive, lack of grammatical explanation, glacially slow, very little vocab"
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