The Best Language Learning Apps (and Why Most Don’t Work)

If you have any thoughts or questions about language learning apps, let me know! Thanks 👍

تقدر تسويلي حساب بنكي امريكي

Hi, language transfer doesn’t have português, do you know another free app?

I've been learning vietnamese with preply for a few months now, and I can tell you it is a really good app, I highly recommend y'all to try it

You didnt learn Arabic , you learned the EGYPTIAN DILECT ... Still pretty impressive 🎉

multilingual men are so attractive that’s all I have to say

I’m an English instructor, and I always recommend my students to listen to podcasts with transcripts, it’s really useful. I’m learning French, and I’d like to know if some of you know a podcast with transcripts in French. Thks!

Do you know any apps to learn San Carlos Apache I've been getrinf quite a good understanding of it

Am I the only one that got a Duolingo and Babbel ad before this video?😭

How did they let you in college without having taken a year of foreign language? Duolingo is worthless

all in one: LingQ

Brian, you're a good man

من كتر ما شوفتك بتكلم مصري ومشفتكش قبل كده بتتكلم انجليزي مستغربك 😂😂

I really like the way you made the video, and thanks for letting me know there are more free options than the dreaded Duo!

I had been studying Finnish for a year, and about two weeks ago, I started using Duolingo (my first foreign language app). Before that, I studied through books and audios (the 'traditional' way), and honestly, the thing that improved the most was my vocabulary (which is important in this language, given the huge variety of words that can be formed). I started at a more advanced stage, but still managed to learn a lot. In short, my advice is to always vary your study methods. I learned a lot from Duolingo, but I don't recommend relying solely on it for studies

I want to learn 10 language Spanish French German Italian Portuguese Arabic Russian Dutch and Hindi

BRIAN! where is LingQ and why you didn´t mention it instead of that bee whatever app. We want answers. Can´t disrespect Steve Kaufmann like that

I'm from Denmark. I learned German in school for about 10 years - I was ok at it. Since then however I've not really used it and therefore forgotten a great deal.

The German Grammar was the thing in school that made it difficult - I've felt that it complicated things in my brain to put too much focus on that. I studied for tests and grades, but would have preferred to learn to communicate more.

I want to relearn it now, since I work in a museum with lots of German tourists. 😊

I am wondering which one might be the right app to re-learn it; when you already know some German??

I was mosly thinking about Pimsleur, but now I'm interested in Glossika and Preply as well. Maybe I should make a plan...😂

Excuseme may I ask about good app for translation

اي دا براين هو انت طلعت عندك قناه يوتيوب

I lost focus and ended up subscribing. God damn.

I haven't seen Language Transfer since many years ago when I was recommended their course for Spanish on SoundCloud. It's nice to know there's an app now!

What's the best app for learning to speak Spanish?

....but what was that Japanese deck though...

Your Arabic need more work coz i can tell you aren't arab

this is an incredibly helpful video! Thank you so much for all the specific referrals!

What is the best app please to learn Bulgarian?

thanks for specifying mandarin instead of chinese. china's regional languages are being erased

Really great advice and I found a new app to try so thanks for that!
Small point - Anki is free everywhere except on iOS it's $25

My comment here is genuinly the BEST and quickest way i learned languages at conversational level is the simplest yet no one ever does it- basically just made 100s of flash cards for the main most common words (adjectives, adverbs, nouns etc) and went through them 10 minutes every day for a few months. By that time i was farmiliar with the most common words to get meaning out of a fair bit of sentences i heard. I then began to watch sitcoms, radio shows etc of that language every day on top of the flashcards and within a year i could understand the language enough to talk/listen to most people in it. All you need to know is the simple main words to get most meanings out of sentences. Even word order doesnt even matter at conversational level most will be able to understand if you just say the main words. People waste too much time learning the language to perfection/correct way too quickly and it overloads their mind.

What about the app Innovative?

I didn’t like using Rosetta Stone to learn Arabic. Without knowing Arabic alphabet, I had a hard time, figuring out which word was which. I had to rely on sounds, and then, when it decide to go to sentences, like I could read Arabic, it got worse.

I have heard you talk arabic so much that it has become weird to hear you speak English

Good morning 🌞 how's it going, I speak 5 languages french Spanish English Portuguese criollo ❤ I want to speak Italian

I've straight up been switching between languages in Duolingo for a week and still can't decide between Spanish, Italian and French. I also wanna learn German, but I'll probably learn it in highschool. I really need help deciding on one language. Which one do you think is the easiest?

That is not the Arabic language. It is the Egyptian language.

شكرا👍😊

You're speaking Egyptian dialect not arabic language.

I used to love Duolingo. But since, the update in the past year to the snake tree, and tapping boxes to answer questions instead of typing, I can't stand it anymore.

I mostly agree, and I use differnt apps. I tried Anki several times and I just don't get into it. So, I now use ReWord. The number of languages offered is limited and the free version also limits you, but it's about 4€ / month with discounts every now and then. I was lucky to catch a Black Friday deal and paid 5€ for lifetime subscription.
Another app I use is Language Flower which offers just a few languages, but short stories for different levels. You read a sentence in your target language and either swipe to the next sentence or click on the sentence to get a translation. Free to use for 10 minutes / day or 1€ per month (subscription can be cancelled anytime).

How do you not have LingQ on your list . Best overall tool to learn a language

Duolingo is the worst app of all. No basics. They just jump to words. Every language has their own basics and Duolingo lacks that. Also there are weird sentences that make no sense. Like a guy saying: my husband works for the government.
WTF is this? Cringe community?

Thanks 🇧🇷

Can you share the Japanese Deck on Anki that you are using! Cause i am learning Japanese too

It will be great for me to speak these languages

nah bro Duolingo sucks, u will know how to connect diff words to make a random sentence, but will have trouble with making a single snetence.

Btw bro ur arabic isn't The real Arabic it's the daily arabic language in Egypt so yeah

I love how you can speak Arabic as a native speaker.

mango app is free from my public libraryand has an aññ audio option. more interesting than pimsleur

That's not arabic !