YuSpeak: Learn Japanese/Korean

Such a greattttt

No words can explain how fantastic it is.

it’s so good for learning korean i’ve learnt so much in such little time

I tried learning Japanese using Duolingo for 6 months. I have made more progress using YuSpeak in a little under a month. YuSpeak is excellent for grammar and sentence structure. I’d recommend using a flash card app alongside it to recall hiragana and katakana. When using YuSpeak be sure to turn off romanji and you’ll learn quickly. The free features on YuSpeak allow pretty much full access to the app. I have paid for premium for 1 month but see very little difference in the features. Great app!

Really enjoying YuSpeak for grammar and comprehension, I’m a paying subscriber. However it seems strange that the kanji training appears in the lessons only, with no way to review progress, or practise writing, except for retaking a lesson. Could this be added in a future update?

I’ve been learning Korean on and off for a good few years but making little progress. In 6 days I’ve learned grammar (something I struggle with even in my own language) and I honestly feel like I’m making visible progress & learning things that I will actually use with Koreans IRL!

Overall I think this is a fun app, I had a play with the Japanese which I already know a fair bit of and thought it was great but not sure I can say how effective it would be for beginners due to my level, so instead I’ll focus on the Korean which I don’t know at all. Starting the Korean course and it proceeds to teach Hangul with image overlays and mnemonics which I think is fantastic and is the same way I learned hiragana and katakana over at Tofugu, it is by far the most efficient way to learn a non native writing system…. Though, unlike with Tofugu and other platforms there are a few things I think could be improved, for example when it’s teaching “ㅏ(a)” it says the following as the mnemonic “f*a*r away from home” with an image of a boy outside his home…. I find this style of mnemonic not useful at all and in general, any which include the spelling or sound mid way through a word which take more effort to locate in your mind vs than with no mnemonic at all, for example a far better mnemonic for “ㅏ(a)” would be something like, “ the *Archer pulled back the *arrow dead centre. He’s a champion but only when facing his right…blah blah blah” with an image of the archer overlaying the character in question, I mean this is just an example but it’s far more effective and easy to recall when the first letter is the same or has the same sound (even if not a perfect match) Unfortunately there is even more abstract images which are harder to associate with the character than it would be just to hammer home rote instead (for example the one with the tree etc) , all in all I think it’s a good system but some extra work and care needs to be taken here and i’d urge the devs to check out Tofugu for a better examples of how this should be done instead. Continuing along and i struggled when all of a sudden these characters/ components started appearing side by side, it kind of feels like something was glossed over somewhere along the way and i was a bit lost and also I didn’t really feel that secure in my knowledge of the individual Hangul up to that point either which didn’t help, now there is a section in later lessons which seems like perhaps it should come prior but being a beginner is not sure 🤷‍♂️ The app assumes you are an English scholar… I’m a native speaker and ashamed to admit it but I couldn’t tell you what the difference between a consonant and a vowel is or a noun or an adjective, most other apps these days assume we don’t know or have forgotten these

So much better than Duolingo, I learnt so much more after mere hours of using this app than I have learnt a couple days on any other app. I saw someone else say this and I 100% agree. It makes learning Korean so much easier and I recommend highly to anyone looking to learn a new language. :)

( if you are someone reading my comment looking for ways to start learning don't miss this app give it a try and you will be amazed by the results ) I was searching for an easy way to learn Japanese and Korean. Personally, this app needs to be heard more it's the best app I've ever seen simple to use and explains in detail. I was always afraid that I won't succeed in both languages but thanks to your app even after 13 hours I've learned so much.

I actually feel like I’m learning grammar!