Lingora Language Courses

Alexander Stebner

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About this app

The most thorough language course you'll find in an app. 20+ languages, 500 lessons each, every single word of every sentence explained as thoroughly as you care to follow. One sentence might keep you busy for twenty minutes.

WHAT'S IN A COURSE
Each sentence gets a full lesson wrapped around it. 500 English sentences in all, hand-picked to cover every grammar structure and the full A1 vocabulary.

Each word comes with its own full dictionary entry: definition with examples, any conjugation or declension it takes, the grammar topics behind it, and stroke-by-stroke guidance for new scripts. If you want to know why a word looks the way it does, the app can tell you.

HOW A LESSON WORKS
Each lesson opens with the intro. You hear the sentence before you see what it means. Slow it down, replay as often as you want. Then the Word Breakdown. Tap any word to see what it means and the grammar behind it. Then the literal, word-for-word translation. Then the grammar topics sitting inside the sentence.

After the intros, the main session starts. Words and sentences from the current lesson get mixed with whatever's due for review, chosen by the spaced-repetition algorithm so you're practicing what you're closest to forgetting. Your own chosen exercise mix prioritizing reading, writing, or listening. Premium users can even further fine-tune exactly which exercises appear.

25+ WAYS TO PRACTICE
Six word games and six sentence games. Flashcards you design yourself, picking what goes on each side. Quick-review tables. Multiple-Choice. Context-clue fill-ins where the wrong answers are similar on purpose. Character stroke practice with real-time validation. Typing exercises with a virtual keyboard. A speech trainer with per-word, color-coded feedback. An AI chat that stays on the lesson's topic and corrects you as you go. And so much more..

REFERENCE
A dictionary that searches in native script, in transliteration, or in English. It finds base forms and inflected forms alike.

A grammar guide covering every topic that appears in the course. Each has a thorough write-up and example sentences, plus the words and lesson sentences that show it in use.

A pronunciation guide covering every consonant and vowel in the language.

Tone guides for tonal languages. Script courses for writing systems you haven't learned yet. Conjugation tables for every verb and noun. Character breakdowns for CJK languages.

WAYS TO FINE-TUNE
Three sliders to weight reading, writing, and listening in each session. Silent mode for studying in public. Transliteration style where more than one exists (Jyutping or Yale, and so on). Diacritics on or off. Full control over what the app does.

PROGRESS
You'll see progress word by word and lesson by lesson. There's a streak counter, stars on completed lessons, and a weekly leaderboard if you want one. None of it is forced on you. Lifetime users can also export anything they've learned as an Anki deck.

LANGUAGES
Arabic · Cantonese · Catalan · Dutch · Filipino · French · German · Hindi · Indonesian · Italian · Japanese · Khmer · Korean · Malay · Mandarin · Polish · Portuguese (Brazilian & European) · Russian · Spanish (European & Mexican) · Thai · Turkish · Ukrainian · Vietnamese (Northern & Southern)

No hearts. No energy. No cartoons. Just a proper course.

Ratings and reviews

Repetitive, no option to test out of lower levels if you have prior experience. I did lessons for two days (total of just under an hour) that repeated the same sentence over and over with no variation. This is fine for basic phrases but is a really poor substitute for actual learning. Editing to add: No, I did not set the controls to all maximum. Each lesson trained me for a half hour on a single sentence.

I like that lessons are sentence-based and combine native audio with reading. It has a nice clean design. I love that each word can be drilled down to see it in other sentences (lets you see verbs with diff conjugations). It has you do a bunch of puzzle-style activities and by the end I'm really remembering the new vocab. It lets you preview a lesson so you can skip if you already know it. It's kind of addicting to use. Best Korean vocab app I've come across.

Very helpful app! I love the way it translates in different ways, from literal word for word to a more natural English translation. The grammar notes are very helpful for deeper understanding rather than just rote memorization. Two suggestions: more (greater number of) original sentences using the vocab rather than repeating the same few sentences SO many times, and having audio for more of the exercises to help drill pronunciation as well as sight reading.

What’s new

Various bugfixes as reported by you