Lingvist: Learn Languages Fast

I think this is one of the best apps for vocabulary building. I’ve tried ALOT. It is very well organized, comprehensive and feels seamless and easy to use. I am someone who was already at a B1/B2 level, it might be better for those who already have some experience rather than a complete beginner because you “fill in the blanks” from an existing sentence. So if you have to actively translate each word in the sentence including the blank, that might slow you down. Best for people who can already grasp some basic sentences and grammar.

Great features, way more breadth of vocabulary than Duolingo. Have learned quite a few words but also was good to be able to asses my current knowledge. However the only thing I think is missing is lesson style content on verbs and conjugation. 1. Show the user some verbs + how to conjugate 2. Give the user the multi select on a few rounds 3. Show the user some flash cards that each relate to the verbs just learned and then cycle them through the main deck Idk maybe I’m not using the app well, but i don’t feel like I’m learning the verbs effectively.

This is a great app for learning vocabulary with a great interface. If they managed to incorporate popular “sayings/phrases” instead of just single words,for example “What’s up?” in Portuguese is “Tudo bem?” then this would undoubtedly be the only app I use to learn. Very helpful and a great design. Loving it.

Ive tried the japanese learning function of the app out for a bit - here is my honest opinion. Its pretty decent for what it is, which is a vocab learner. If you have a long attention span, you can sit and learn vocab pretty easily and relatively fast. From what Ive seen, the grammar tips seem very limited. There is really no other function but to repeat vocab again and again, which is useful but, and this is where my main issue arises, not worth £8.99 a month. I think that price is ludicrous for such a limited app, I assume that the Japanese learning version is incomplete because I don’t think that its an acceptable amount of money for such a limited resource. I would think a one time purchase of around £10 would be much more realistic. The app seems to advertise itself as using AI to help learn language, but from what I can see it is nothing groundbreaking that hasnt been done before, for cheaper. I would love to see AI put to more innovative use in the app, perhaps with AI tutors or AI games? In conclusion, useful for vocab but too expensive for such a limited Japanese learning experience.

After I subscribed in the Apple Store, the app didn’t recognise my payment and I was still in trial mode.

Starting the app for Spanish and I’m offered a placement test which I begin, I would have expected the first batch of words to be the most common and while some were, a good chunk wasn’t (I’d have thought they would get progressively less common towards the end) there is 50 questions in total, you type in the missing blank and then the whole sentence is read back to you, I found this insanely annoying and I can find no way to skip these sentence readouts each and every time, given that they’d want you to do 50 questions a day I’d actually go insane if this was forced on me as it basically x20 (if not more) the time taken. At the end of the placement test it made the declaration that out off approx 5000 words I only know 10…… I thought this placement test would be a bit more clever under the hood but evidently not, I simply got 10 answers correct out of 50…. So yeah, the placement test doesn’t do jack (fyi I know several thousand of the **actually** most common Spanish words) Anyway, Spanish placement done and I realise I’m in euro Spanish by mistake as the app has randomly ordered the language selection it would seem, I switch over to Latin Spanish and guess what, it pops up asking me to do the placement test again, but afaict it’s identical to the euro one (as you’d expect) so why then are you having me take it again??? In terms of the apps ability to actually teach you things, sure, but in the most inefficient way possible, partly because of the painfully slow input method and sentence read backs but also because this is nothing but a rote SRS system (which you can get far better elsewhere for free), it’s long long long been known that rote learning methods are inefficient and at absolute best (real emphasis on the absolute best part) we can take on approx 30 new pieces of info daily based on rote methods, the reality is we will take on far less than that. A better way which has been known about for absolute donkeys years is using mnemonics, for example “the cyclops said there is something in my hay (eye)” “there is” and “hay” being the word in question, using this actually efficient method you can learn 50 or 100 or 200 words a day with the only limitation being your time. Sufficed to say this app does none of that. There is a bug where If I go to insights and then word lists the page is always loading, it never stops. Edit: I see now this is only for paid members….why??? Utterly backwards. Grammar is poorly implemented, and afaict none of the grammar p

I do fifty words every morning. My vocabulary has really improved and it reinforces my grammar when I wonder why something has this or that ending. Or go to a dictionary to see if I can understand why that word is used in that way. I have no opportunity to speak Spanish, so I am concentrating on my reading and writing. If I ever do become fluent, Lingvist will have played a major part. Oh, and constantly listening to correct pronunciation is a massive help.

NO cantonese despite them keep asking what I’m looking to learn

The app is really good, the only thing I’d ask is for the user to be able to reset their own progress in learning “Decks”.

Lingvist's design is simply beautiful, easy to navigate, and I have had no bugs in the several months I've been using the app. The support team are quick to respond to issues, and helpful. As a vocabulary learniny app, it's solid, by using words in context you'll find you're learning. I do wish there were more notes on the words in my chosen language (Portuguese), or a dictionary or link to one. That said, I highly recommend the app for serious learners.