BETTER THAN DUOLINGO: The 5 Best Language Learning Tools and Apps

Love your stuff Lamont - your down-to-earth, 'I'm a language nerd and I own it', style is very endearing! About lingq: you have it listed in the text below video, but don't mention it in the video. Do you see Bookmate as something of an analog? I haven't used it myself. I don't necessarily care for the Lingq design either (though they've recently updated with the scrolling text in the audio playback which seems to be a great design upgrade) but I use it primarily to bring outside content into - from ebooks, articles etc I find myself. Again, thanks for the tips here - I'm not super techie, so I appreciate the tips on stuff I would never find myself ;) Gonna try some of this audio and recording wizardry!

Your intro is funny 😂

I do enjoy this. I hope you have fun with a happy learning.

I've been using Busuu for Spanish for about 2 months, I completed the A1 stage and it did help a lot, however I noticed that if you only use the free version it kinda doesn't let you see some key features which can leave you struggling. For example, they will introduce a new piece of grammar, but a pop up will show to tell you that you can't access grammar units if you're not paying premium, then if you close that and go back to the lesson, it will start quizzing you on that new piece of grammar or rule that you didn't actually learn so you kinda have to figure it out based on the mistakes you do, which kinda sucks.
Duolingo for example doesn't have this problem, but on the other hand Duolingo doesn't follow a structure that's as efficient as Busuu. So I ended up using both simultaneously.

Dulingo now Emphasizes On teaching gender -neutral pronouns word and culture. So if you'r interested in pseudo everything & geting a western woke vaccination. Then DUOLINGO is a must application for you.

Okay I want to learn Arabic where do I go for that

Great stuff. I feel like a lot of people get hung up on boring apps and then lose motivation (like I did). I've had way more fun just wandering through all parts of the web seeing what I can find in my target language. It feels like an adventure into another culture and makes me genuinely want to understand the things that I come across.

Busuu sounds great but no Greek so not good for me.

I just started to learn Swedish and it’s my first time learning a language that’s not native. Right now I am useing Duolingo to get started until I get done books
Tack för videon

Busuu is terrible for Russian and any Asian languages. Those courses are like Lonely Planet phrase books - no structure at all. Absolutely 💩!

I got a Duolingo ad before the video started...

My fingers brought me here.

You're wrong, irregardless.

I use Busuu for Polish! I really feel like I'm learning!

i like duolingo because that green bird is my only friend

HAHAHAAA

I'm kind of screwed with Busuu because I'm learning European Portuguese and they only have Brazilian Portuguese. I'm sure it would have been a good app though.

I downloaded Busuu as you were speaking until i saw it didn't have Svenska...prime reason I was watching this

OBS is a recording program that is free

I’m going for your advice! Duolingo is just translation and spoon feeding. I only like their stories and flash card matching. I wish that’s all it was. ?:

I had doulingo add

Thank you so much for this list. I had never considered that my e-reader might have a translation tool but it does! 🙂

I have difficulty finding a good app for learning Ukrainian. Do you have any recommendations?

In your opinion
Which are the best total free apps
which you use please.
I'm 70 years old. I'm too fearful to buy anything online.
Thieving Scammers!

Busuu used to be fun. Now, it's just a Rosetta stone knockoff.

I miss Livemocha.

Thanks

Is Busuu still better than Duolingo?

I like your style.

I could use this!

Thank you for your fabulous intro!

What are good apps for Danish?

Duolingo just sux. High error rate. Small databases. 1950s teaching methods. Duolingo is just about ads and is insulting to every culture it claims to represent. I feel sorry for those paying for Duolingo. They'll just have to unlearn all of the bad habits Duo teaches them.

You just got me as a new subscriber because of the quality of information in this video. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!!!!! It would be interesting to see what your top five would be now (2022) compared with this video.

IVA

I talky

Book mate
Music speed changer
Busuu

good

Duodungo is trash, and they know it themselves.

thank you!

So was this video sponsored or not?

Thank you! I was so tired of Duolingo lessons in Russian that made me repeat "The horses eat apples", babbel doesn't allow you to learn more than one language at once, and memrise is great for vocabulary (especially Mandarin) but to learn how to speak not so much.

For me, I'd say NO.1 choice is------ move to a free country, cuz first for example in china Apps like duolingo was removed from the market, actually most of the western educational resources are banned. Second vpn is illegal, lots of vpn doesn't even work in china. Third even if your vpn works and has an app downloaded it still might not work, such as Drop and Quizlet.If communist party doesn't exist then this country will be much better and more friendly to the whole world

VPNs prohibit bigpond from syncing. There's no Korean or Greek on Busuu.

Thank you so much. This has been very helpful

The music app is android, not for iOS 😭

Duolingo is good for start, it gives a strong base, after that you can continue with other tools to become more fluent,