Ling - Language Lessons 4+

LITERALLY AMAZING!!

I literally just stumbled across this app on Google an hour ago, saw it could teach Tagalog and now I’m HOOKED!! For the longest time I’ve been wanting to learn my native language as my parents never taught me but didn’t know where to go to or how to start because such a ‘niche’ language is not typically made available as an education. Yet this app made it so accessible, easy and clear, explaining the grammar too!

Maybe one thing to improve for Ling is to allow for a retry/to go back to a question when I make mistakes within the same lesson, I take so I can strengthen my knowledge better.

Other than that, I’m so excited to continue learning and maybe pick up another language entirely too!

This app could be so much more !

The app provides high quality education to an extent with the comprehensive activities it provides to learners, however i believe the activities themselves are fairly insufficient and extremely repetitive.

The repetitiveness is beneficial but only to a certain threshold where you’re are still left wondering about certain grammatical inquires etc.

Things they should add to vastly improve the app :

1) Add a section where students can free write in whatever language a student is studying and have a marking feature that shows when you are incorrect in any way grammaticaly, vocabulation wise etc.

2) Add a vocal studying section, where students have the ability to practise pronounciation and fluency, which is arguably the most detrimental part of learning any new language and it would seriously seperate Ling from other language learning apps massively.

3) Make the examinations at the end of each lesson much longer and more versatile with the questions being asked to students. I feel as if the questions are so predictable and repetitive which really limits the learner from absorbing the necessary information and questioning (that they would occur in a real scenario speaking whatever language) that is needed in order to acheive true fluency.

Other than that so far so good,

All the best to the team.

Developer Response ,

Hi! I’m very grateful for your positive feedback. It’s awesome to hear from Lingsters like you that our app is helpful and easy to use. I’m glad that our app can help you learn a new language in a simple and effective way with our language games. We’re always working to improve our app and add more languages and features. I want to make sure that you have the best possible experience with Ling and that you can learn any language you want. Please let me know if you have any suggestions or questions by emailing me at [email protected]. I value your opinion, and I’m here to support you. Cheers! Nick

An app that needs a lot of improvement

This app gets worse for Slovenian the more you use it. It keeps coming up with a totally different language and it’s getting more and more frequent. Also the speaker has a verbal tic so teaches the pronounciation wrong. Lastly they sometimes teach the words in the wrong case or say it’s singular when it’s plural. However, if you don’t rely on it alone to learn, it can give useful practice and help with word order, if you ignore the verbal tic of the one woman you can also improve pronounciation. It also improves vocabulary. Don’t rely on it to understand grammar. You have to have lessons for that or proper books that teach it.
Still worth subscribing and using the app.
It’s also possible that some of these things have been ironed out since I first wrote this review, although the annoying tic is still there.

Developer Response ,

Hi there! I’m very grateful for your honest feedback. It’s awesome to hear from Lingers like you that our app is helpful and easy to use. I’m glad that our app can help you learn a new language in a simple and effective way with our language games. We’re always working to improve our app and add more languages and features, and I hope that our recent improvements will be more beneficial to you.. I want to make sure that you have the best possible experience with Ling and that you can learn any language you want. Please let me know if you have any suggestions or questions by emailing me at [email protected]. I value your opinion, and I’m here to support you. Cheers! Nick