Ling: Learn Thai Language

In my opinion if you allow it to give you notifications it's not as annoying as doulingo which harasses you

I really want to love Ling. The UI team deserves an award. Really intuitive and easy to use. I even dig how they present the lessons. Buuuuut this is a language learning app geared towards someone that already had some familiarity with Thai. Not a complete beginner.

I started using this app today, I already know the basic’s and everything but for 1 month it cost’s so much.

So I downloaded this app to learn so I downloaded this learning my basic sentence and all that but then I figured out that every single thing else is for pro. I’m mad because I love I suggest that you fix that or else more people are going to delete the app like I did, so please if you can respond as quick as you can or fix the issue bye-bye

I have been using this app to learn Thai and absolutely love it! I especially love how it allows you to review the vocabulary. And I really like how I’m able to write and record my voice in Thai and listen to it in order to improve. Would highly recommend!

I like this app more than other, far more expensive, options. The only problem thus far is that material from one lesson to the next is not repeated to build on vocabulary

Thank you Ling! The new update makes learning so much easier!

I’m going to start by talking about the things I like about this app- - the lessons are quick and you can do them within five minutes - I like how you can evaluate your pronunciation - I like how you can learn how to write different letters that aren’t from the roman alphabet - I like that it teaches proper grammar structures and about the culture - to some extent you can sort of practice conversations So why not five stars? - when doing a lesson, you can’t really go back to fix a mistake or go back to the beginning of the lesson until the very end- and even at the end, you can’t correct mistakes unless you want to redo the entire lesson - yes the app gets the job done- but the learning process is a bit dull and not all that fun - lessons- I was looking through the lessons and i don’t believe I could become a fluent speaker with what I am offered - writing- there should be a way to practice writing some of the phrases that were learnt- for example- if you are learning Thai, and it asks “how do you say hello in Thai?” Theres no way to practice writing it as “สวัสดี ค่ะ“ instead you simply click a button- which is good in some cases, but it won’t help in terms of writing or learning how to properly write - It would be sort of cool if there was a way to practice writing and conversing in the language with an actual person- or even ai, or however that would work, or with other learners, instead of pushing a button to send a ready-made phrase to a bot - it would be pretty cool if there was a game option available at all times to review stuff (like what “Babbel” does) - Teaching about tones for writing for different languages- or going more in depth with the alphabets of the languages that don’t use the Roman alphabet would be awesome! Overall the app is pretty effective for comprehending a language-would recommend if you are using it to understand media- for reading and writing it might not do completely as you wish- for full fledged conversations it might be a bit difficult as well Where to look for inspiration on app updates- Babbel has some super cool immersive features, where if Ling made their own version of them, it could be much more fun, engaging, and give more learning opportunities to people who have the app.

$15 for 30 days of access is already a steep asking price, but there’s not a lot of Thai resources out there. To make things worse, I got through 1 (O-N-E) ‘premium’ lesson before the app froze and kicked me out, and now has no record of my purchase. I’m locked out of the lessons I bought and yet the money is still gone from my account. Even if I can get a refund, I will not be using this app again, nor will I ever recommend it to fellow language learners. In the time I have spent trying to get this app to work, I could have found 5x as many free resources that actually function as advertised. Disappointing.

Once you sign in you find out it is a subscription. Not free. And I can’t find out how to opt out. AND there doesn’t seem to be any instruction in what phrases mean. Just introduced to a new word, and Then it is included in a sentence. There needs to be more structure in how to pronounce these words, and start from a more basic set of words. Like YES and NO.