Perhaps it is no secret to anyone that live communication helps to quickly integrate into the language environment and make progress. Hey Jay! is a free application that allows users to search for native speakers nearby and make appointments to exchange cultural experiences. English, French, Italian, German, Spanish and even Chinese can now be learned over a cup of coffee in a pleasant company. Such practice helps to improve the skill of speaking a foreign language, to get to know the mentality of people from other countries and to discover linguistic features that are not written about in textbooks.
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The application is one of the most popular among the Russian-speaking audience. Inside are a variety of lessons that will help turn the study in English into an exciting game. Instead of cramming, familiar from school, they offer to learn new things with the help of videos and songs, and memorize material by completing tasks that are interesting in terms of mechanics. So that you don’t abandon the process, an element of gamification has been introduced: for the exercises you complete, you are given meatballs that you need to feed the lion. You don't want the lion to starve, do you?
The application is available for download in the App Store and Google Play
The app is a global celebrity: millions of users around the world are learning foreign languages with Duolingo. Unlike the Russian predecessor on this list, you can learn four languages here: English, Spanish, French and German. The application will teach you how to read, speak and listen, offer interesting tasks and reward points for correct answers. The creators claim that 34 hours of the Duolingo course is comparable to a whole semester of study at the university. Only free.
The application is available for download in the App Store and Google Play
An indispensable assistant for those who need to replenish vocabulary. The repertoire of the application includes more than 200 languages, ready-made lists of words and phrases. Memrise is based on a scientific approach and uses the spaced repetition method. The application will remind you of itself at the right time to prevent what you have learned from disappearing from memory. To facilitate the memorization of words, voice acting, videos and memes are used.
The application is available for download in the App Store and Google Play
Most of us have tried this method at university: you take a card, write the word in English on one side, and the translation on the other. AnkiApp works on the same principle, only it also offers to evaluate how difficult it was for you to remember the translation. The application takes into account your answers and, depending on this, adjusts the period after which it will show you this word again. You can use ready-made sets of cards (there are more than 80,000,000 in total) or add them yourself. The application has several dozen languages in its arsenal.
The application is available for download in the App Store and Google Play
Two-in-one app: learn languages and get acquainted with ideas from around the world, which are shared by the speakers of the famous conference. The topics of speeches are very diverse - from psychology and finance to modern technologies and desire to change the world for the better. With a library of over 2,000 TED talks, themed playlists and subtitles in over 100 languages, the TED video library is ideal for intermediate language learners who need some practice.
The application is available for download in the App Store and Google Play
The application offers to learn English from the lyrics of your favorite songs. The Genius database contains a large collection of lyrics with comments - more than one and a half million in total. We turn on the clip, read the text, sing along and learn - everything is simple. Difficult words and slang are explained in the comments. You can do the same trick with any song that plays on your phone (the app syncs with services like Spotify and Play Music).
The application is available for download in the App Store and Google Play
A titan app that allows you to learn 12 foreign languages - one after the other or at the same time. In addition to common ones, there are also specific ones, such as Japanese, Arabic, Turkish and Chinese. Learning takes place through simple exercises, language courses (levels A1 - B2) and practice with native speakers. For each - 150 most important topics and 3,000 words.
The application is available for download in the App Store and Google Play
One of Puzzle English's apps that turns watching your favorite TV shows into educational process. Watching the video is accompanied by subtitles in two languages at once. To find out the meaning of a word, just click on it and add it to the dictionary to repeat later. The collection of the application contains about 100 popular English-language TV shows, and in the paid version - about 300. Such viewing will teach you to perceive live English speech with different accents and expand your vocabulary.
The application is available for download in the App Store and Google Play
In that free application with daily lessons you can choose from any of the 33 languages presented, from familiar European groups to Hindi, Farsi, Vietnamese and Afrikaans. The creators of Mandli promise that the program will suit both beginners and those who want to take their language skills to a new level. Beginners are offered to start with basic dialogues with basic words, while experienced ones can immediately go up a step. The result of learning in the application will be at least 5,000 foreign words in your vocabulary and the ability to use them correctly in different situations.
The application is available for download in the App Store
One of the most popular and mature (first appeared in 1992) software products that will provide users with several useful and amazing hours of learning any of the three dozen languages that this application has in stock. In order to remember words and grammar on an intuitive level, you have to go through exercises that combine text, image and sound. The further the student advances, the more difficult the tasks will become. If you have a microphone, the program will compare your pronunciation with the correct one and give you a score. By the way, grades are saved and displayed throughout all practical classes.
The application is available for download in the App Store and Google Play
This app has been an Apple Editors' Choice for two years in a row. Taking into account that in Everyday life each native speaker uses an average of 3,000 words, the authors suggest that users enrich their stock with a dozen new words every day. Thus, in a month there will be 300 of them (February does not count), and in a year - 3,650! At the same time, it is enough to devote only five minutes a day to training. There are six languages to choose from: Spanish, Italian, English, French, German and Portuguese. If you enjoy the app and would like to receive a personalized selection of new words every day, you can sign up for an auto-renewable subscription.
The application is available for download in the App Store and Google Play
Yes, this application offers to learn only one language, English. But due to the fact that here they did not scatter on different countries and adverbs, the course turned out to be quite rich and useful. It is based on the principles of the natural method, just like in real life. The authors offer to improve their speech understanding skills through a collection of films in English, exercises to train writing, speaking and listening. You will be supported in the learning process by a personal teacher, a native speaker of English. But perhaps the main disadvantage of the application is that you can try the course for free only for seven days.
Learning a new foreign language seems to many challenging task. But nowadays there are a lot of applications for gadgets that simplify this task. Some apps help you expand your vocabulary, others help you learn grammar, and others help you improve your pronunciation. In any case, they are indispensable for self-study.
All Bai Courses offer to get acquainted with the top mobile applications, which in two clicks will turn any gadget into a boring tutorial in foreign languages.
Duolingo
For Russian-speaking users, Duolingo provides access to learning English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. The study program is built in the form of an achievement tree, i.e. in order to move to a new level, you need to score a certain number of points. They can be earned for correct answers in tasks: match a word with a picture, translate a phrase from your native language into the one being studied and vice versa. You can compare your achievements with the successes of other users and even share them on social networks.
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Busuu
Over 70 million users have installed the app to learn Spanish, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish, Arabic, Polish, Chinese and Japanese. They all teach and learn at the same time. The program contains lessons of varying complexity. There are words with cards, and reading, and written assignments, and quizzes. For each completed exercise, the student is awarded points, so learning is even more interesting.
Rosetta Stone
Rosetta Stone is a language app with which you can easily learn more than a dozen foreign languages, from English to Japanese. At the very beginning, the application offers the simplest tasks for replenishing vocabulary, a little later it displays idioms and phrases on the screen. In addition, the program will help to practice pronunciation and grammar. The application has its own methodology, which is mainly based on the associative series.
Babbel
Babbel is the perfect app for learning the basics of a foreign language. There are currently 14 languages available to users: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Polish, Indonesian, Dutch, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian. By downloading the program to your smartphone, you get access to a huge number of lessons, where you first learn the simplest words and rules, help you perceive foreign speech by ear. On average, one lesson lasts 15 minutes, which allows you to study at any time convenient for you. The only drawback of the application is that there is no interface in Russian, i.e. study is possible only with English or another foreign language. However, this is also a plus, since you learn one language and at the same time consolidate knowledge of the second.
Memrise
Memrise is a multifunctional application for memorizing new words. The entire structure of the lessons is built around vocabulary and expanding your vocabulary. The database has a huge number of lessons and topics that you can choose at your discretion. The method of work is simple and understandable: words are given, then their meanings, translation, and you are invited to remember them, make words from letters, play with them. At the end of each lesson, the percentage of correct answers is given. The application will help you learn vocabulary, but pronunciation and listening comprehension are best taught with other programs.
The following languages are available: English, Arabic, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Vietnamese, Welsh, Zulu.
Nemo
Nemo will help you improve your vocabulary and improve your pronunciation. For the second, the program has an accent correction function. To do this, you need to record yourself on a voice recorder and compare what was said with the pronunciation of the announcer. Convenient and practical. As for the dictionary, the application throws up new words every day, and so that you don’t forget them, it monitors your progress in the evening, offering to test your knowledge. The application does not require a permanent connection to the Internet, which means that it can be used anytime and anywhere.
The program gives access to more than 30 European and Asian languages.
Italki
Access to more than a hundred foreign languages, including major European and Asian ones, is provided by the Italki app. This is live communication with native speakers from other countries who test your knowledge in real time. In this case, the verification can be both audio and written. You can independently assign the time of the lesson and topics to your teacher, make a schedule and contact people. By the way, the application allows not only to learn, but also to teach. So anyone has the opportunity to try themselves as a teacher of their native language.
HelloTalk
More than 100 languages, or rather the ability to communicate with native speakers of more than 100 languages. There is no theory here, only practice and live communication. Interlocutor-teacher instantly corrects your speech, grammar, pronunciation, syntax in real time. What is nice, the number of languages studied is not limited - choose an interlocutor and practice. This is a great option that will help you learn the language and make new friends around the world.
Easy Ten
The name of the application speaks for itself: every day the student will learn 10 new words. And that's 70 a week! So in a month you can properly pull up one topic. And if you choose not 10, but 20 words, then the process will speed up. To test knowledge and reinforce words, easy ten offers 4 types of tests that involve different types of perception of information. The application will be useful both for those who are just learning the basics, and for those who have already advanced enough, but want to enrich their vocabulary. The following languages are currently available to the user: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish, Chinese, Korean and Japanese.
Hi Native
Another service that allows you to learn a language through communication with native speakers. Choose an interlocutor, ask him questions and get a living language. Questions can be asked using pictures or words. This is a good auxiliary tool where you can get a prompt response to exciting questions by the meaning of words and idioms.
By the way, the application will be relevant for those who are going on a trip. You can contact people living in the country you need, ask questions about the upcoming trip, possible vacation options, entertainment, or surprises that may lie in wait for you.
Knowledge of foreign languages is an indisputable plus for career advancement. But not everyone can set aside a few days a week for serious language learning. Mobile applications come to the aid of those who are very busy, allowing you to study at any convenient time and in any place.
1. LinguaLeo - from zero to pro
English language.Price: free; In-app purchases are possible.
Despite its image of a service for those who are just starting to learn English, LinguaLeo offers ample opportunities for those who have already mastered the language of Shakespeare, Hemingway and Steve Jobs to a sufficient extent. And entrepreneurs will certainly be interested in the built-in "Business English", which contains an intensive grammar course, a course business correspondence, materials on business, accounting and finance.
LinguaLeo
Among the 20 courses designed for students of different levels, there are simulators for CAE, FCE, IELTS General, IELTS Academic and GIA tests. To make the learning process more interesting and exciting, LinguaLeo offers different types of exercises: six types of interactive training, a personal dictionary with transcriptions and voiceovers, thematic dictionaries, a large offline dictionary of 60,000 words, selections of English texts for every taste (including TED and a collection from British Council), as well as the ability to practice without an internet connection.
2. Duolingo - improving skills
Language: English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Dutch.Price: free.
Last year, Duolingo won "Best Educational App" twice. At first, the service was highly rated by Apple, and a little later it confirmed its status in Google Play, when the number of downloads exceeded one million in the first three weeks after the release. The Russified version offers only two languages for learning - English and German. But if as base language choose English, the number of available languages will grow to six.
Duolingo
Each unit consists of several lessons, including learning new words, listening, grammar, reading, spelling, pronunciation and two-way translation exercises. If you practice regularly, the result will not keep you waiting. The learning path looks like a kind of achievement tree, so skipping one topic and immediately taking on another will not work.
Duolingo helps you expand your vocabulary, master grammatical constructions and improve pronunciation. The application uses its own currency - lingots, which cannot be bought, but can only be earned through hard work.
3. British Council - cultural values
English language.Price: free.
Platform: browser, iOS, Android, Windows Phone.
In addition to the exchange of cultural values, one of the main tasks of the British Council is to help in learning English. For those who have no time to go to courses and study with a teacher, an impressive selection of 13 mobile applications is intended. British Council recommends learning a language through games, podcasts, movies and quizzes.
British Council - IELTS Wordpower
The interactive grammar book Learn English Grammar is designed for different levels of English proficiency: from beginner to advanced. IELTS Wordpower has over 100 questions in 11 categories to help you prepare for the exam.
My Word Book offers to expand vocabulary with didactic cards, which can be filled with your own words, notes and pictures to facilitate the learning process.
The Learn English Audio & Video lessons, which include an audio script and comprehension exercises, train your listening skills.
A special Premier Skills app is provided for football fans: now everyone will know what exactly to answer the British hooligans to their next trick.
4. Babbel is a mobile polyglot
Language: 14 languages.Price: $7 - 13 per month.
Platform: browser, iOS, Android.
The Babbel audience has more than 15 million users, including such significant figures as German Chancellor Angela Merkel. With this service, you can learn 14 languages: English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish, Dutch, Polish, Indonesian, Norwegian, Danish and Russian.
Some of the materials are available without payment, but for full access you have to pay monthly, depending on the selected package.
Each lesson focuses on both vocabulary and grammar. The exercises include building dialogues with interlinear translation into English (Babbel is not Russified yet), which allows you to learn words and language constructions at the same time.
The language course contains several levels for beginners and advanced students, thematic collections of vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, a section on the cultural traditions of the country and additional materials that allow you to learn more about idioms and false friends of the translator.
5. Busuu - from native speakers
Language: 12 languages.Price: 170 - 500 rubles. per month for a premium subscription.
Platform: browser, iOS, Android.
Busuu is not just a language learning service, but a whole community of people helping each other to acquire new knowledge and master English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Polish, Turkish, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese.
Free membership includes vocabulary, reading and writing exercises and interactive exams. The premium subscription offers access to grammar lessons, audio recordings, video lessons, special travel training, discounts on the business course and unlimited access to all materials for learning various foreign languages.
The courses of each language are divided into levels: beginner, elementary, intermediate and upper intermediate. Each of them includes several lessons, during which the user is asked to study the words, read and listen to the text, answer questions, and then complete a small written task.
The undoubted advantage of Busuu is the ability to communicate with native speakers, who will help to correct the acquired knowledge and raise it to a new level.
6. Memrise is not a single language
Language: 36 languages and dialects.Price: free.
Platform: browser, iOS, Android.
Memrise is not just a language learning service. In addition, the site has courses on various topics: art and literature, mathematics and science, memory training, profession and career, and many others. Memrise is hardly a classic learning app; rather, it is a collection of courses for all occasions. For example, in the category "English" you can find grammar tests, collections of irregular verbs, phrasal verbs and books by Charles Dickens in the original.
To facilitate memorization, the service offers various mnemonic rules and unforgettable illustrations. The interface deserves special mention. The developers compare the learning process to growing flowers in a garden: it is not enough just to throw seeds into the ground (to learn a word). From time to time they need to be watered (refreshed) so that they do not “wither” in memory.
7. FunEasyLearn - expanding vocabulary
Language: 17 languages.Price: free.
Platform: browser, Android.
For those who have already mastered the basics of grammar, but want to expand their vocabulary, we can recommend FunEasyLearn. The application does not have a stylish design and works only with Android, but the learning methodology is definitely worthy of the highest rating. In order to securely fix 6000 words in memory (that's how many each course contains), 7 types of different exercises have been developed using different learning mechanisms.
FunEasyLearn
Today, 17 languages are available on Google Play and on the website. English, German, Spanish, Italian, Polish, French and Chinese have already been adapted for Russian users. Korean, Turkish, Ukrainian, Danish, Greek, Indonesian, Swedish, Thai and Czech are easy to learn for those who already know English.
We have collected 6 applications that will help you not to screw up in an English pub. Or in French, or in Brazilian. In general, this is a selection for those who want to learn or improve a foreign language.
MEMRISE
The free app invites you to sign up to get started. This can be done by simply syncing with your Facebook account. Next, you need to choose the language you want to learn. There is Japanese, and Italian, and Portuguese with English, and even Russian. So it's time to remember what you had at school in Russian for a year and, perhaps, instead of a foreign language, choose a more familiar language.
We had an eight, so we choose English from the list of suggested languages. The application immediately imposes the course "400 words of TOEFL", but if you click on the button below, you can choose from a bunch of other courses. For example, go through the topic "50 Basic Roots for English".
The course "400 words of TOEFL" offers to learn words. Offers in such a way that it is almost impossible not to learn them. First you need to understand the meaning of the word that you are offered to learn, then guess the word by meaning and the meaning by the word. It is also worth remembering the spelling of the word, because the next exercise is to correctly type this word. Do something wrong, and the application will remind you three more times that irrigation is irrigation.
There are no problems with the interface: it is intuitively clear where to press and what to do next. The only drawback is the rather strange keyboard in the exercises, where it is proposed to write the word just spoken by the application.
By the way, Memrise invites users to make memes: if you can't remember a word, choose a picture from Google Images and create a meme. Memrise also has a PC version that syncs with the app.
First, Busuu is not a single application that collects different languages, but a whole series. To learn English, you need to download "Learn English with Busuu", so that German - well, you understand.
Secondly, to start using the application, you still need to download some add-ons. Judging by the time spent, they weigh no more than 1 Kb. Well, then everything is simple: choose your level and start doing the exercises. All lessons are divided into topics (meeting friends, communication at work, clothes and shopping) and include vocabulary and dialogues.
The disadvantage of the application is that not all lessons are available in the standard version. Sometimes (about 4 times in each lesson) you will come across a warning that this topic is only available to users with a premium account. If you ignore this warning, the application will immediately move on to another exercise for mere mortals.
The feature of the service is that you can help people who are learning Russian, and they, in turn, will help you with Portuguese. In other words: a certain Israeli is trying to make a sentence in Russian, and you point him to the wrong ending of the third noun in the sentence. He can thank you by finding a mistake in every Hebrew word you say.
Busuu also allows you to change your profile photo. You can choose Lana Del Rey or Jeremy Clarkson.
Unlike previous apps, Duolingo only allows you to learn German and English (if you choose Russian as your base language). First you need to register or, again, synchronize with Facebook. Then set yourself a goal - easy, normal, harsh or crazy. What you choose will determine how many and which tasks Duolingo will offer you.
Each lesson in the application is the practice of speaking, listening and translating. The pluses, perhaps, include the fact that the translation works in both directions. That is, first you need to write a sentence in English, and after a couple of steps, translate the English phrase into Russian. In addition, Duolingo suggests how else you can translate this sentence.
Admittedly, it wasn't without its downsides. Firstly, the tasks here are not the most difficult. Perhaps that is why Duolingo has a rating of 4.7 on the Play Market. Secondly, in tasks where you need to pronounce a phrase, your speech is not always adequately perceived. So you can lose self-confidence, 30 times “wrongly” pronouncing an apple. Yes, and you won’t learn much in transport, but there is a “not now” button for this. If you press it, then the task can be skipped and you do not have to scare others with your “Ai em e man”.
Oh yeah, after every lesson you complete, Duolingo tells you what percentage you now have in the language and offers to add it to your Linkedin profile. And if you doubt that now you know the language by 10%, then you can safely follow the link, download the test application and confirm to yourself and the whole world that yes, really 10%.
LINGUALEO
A photo: AppStore, karshhagan.com.
Portuguese is the official language of Portugal, Brazil and some African countries, with a total of 240 million speakers. At the same time, 220 million people consider him native. Portuguese is one of the ten most widely spoken languages in the world and is also the second most spoken Romance language. It belongs to the Indo-European language family, is based on the Latin alphabet and goes back to the Galician-Portuguese language of the Middle Ages.
1 Top 3 resources according to Languages as a Lifestyle
PortuguesePod101- an English-language service for training listening with a large database of thematic audio and video lessons, divided by levels from beginner to advanced; each lesson is accompanied by printouts of tasks, word lists, tests, and the premium subscription has Feedback from a mentor. Classes begin with a choice of language level, and then the lessons gradually become more difficult.
Italki- a service for finding teachers and language partners. Book standard lessons with homework, ready-made course packages on the topic you want, or 30-minute conversation sessions with native speakers. // .
Colloquial Portuguese- English-language tutorial of Portuguese for beginners; The step-by-step course consists of a textbook and audio recordings.
2 For beginners
Polyglot: Portuguese in 16 hours - a find course for those who learn Portuguese from scratch; a unique technique from the polyglot Dmitry Petrov, with the help of which you can master the language base in 16 lessons. With this margin, you can confidently move on to higher levels.
3 courses
- 10-day training on the organization of the language learning process. Among the bonuses: checklists, useful resources, activity tracker and planner. Helper for those who need to learn a foreign language, but "no time".
4 Dictionaries
Multitran- Portuguese-Russian and Russian-Portuguese dictionary.
Forvo- an audio dictionary where you can type any Portuguese word in the search and listen to it in the voice acting of native speakers.
5 Applications
HelloTalk- application for language practice with native speakers by correspondence or through voice messages. // .
