Spoken: Language Practice

Big Languages Ltd

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About this app

In this app for intermediate and advanced Spanish and English learners, the focus is on daily speaking practice and learning vocabulary.

Learn and practice vocabulary only by listening. Play a vocabulary list to hear new words with translations, without needing to look at your phone. You could listen and test yourself on vocabulary while walking, driving or cleaning, to maximise your language learning time.

Use the 'Today' tab to prepare for speaking and listening in the real world. Talk spontaneously about a daily topic. After you see the day’s topic, you have 10 seconds and then you need to start speaking about it. It doesn’t matter if you make mistakes - no one is listening (only the AI!).

Do written or spoken role plays in real life scenarios and see your mistakes corrected.

Listen to recordings of native speakers talking naturally in real conversations. Test yourself by writing what you hear and finding out if you're correct. You can view a transcript of what they're saying and click difficult words to see an explanation.

Write 70 words per day and discover your grammar mistakes, corrected by AI.

This app was created by a team of two, in the UK, including a qualified language teacher.

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Ratings and reviews

I tried this app in both languages, and have to say I was disappointed with the Spanish side. I think it's nice for practicing standardized writing and speaking, however while it allows you to listen to different accents, it doesn't seem to understand them when spoken. Instead, it corrects them to fit the standard. So I tried the app again in English, using different regional accents, and it didn’t correct any mistakes. Good app, but Spanish accents should also be recognized.

A really great app and concept, I love the idea of small daily tasks, and these are executed really well. However I personally don't think the amount of content you get at the moment is worth the subscription fee and I don't personally find the vocabulary lists to be very useful. I would love to see more tasks added in the future, perhaps things like "describe what's in the image", or a reading comprehension task where you summarize what was said.

The app is very good at one thing, which is getting you to speak everyday under time pressure. This is gold. However, they AI correction and the Human correction for advance level speakers is not that good, too little too basic. The AI doesn't provide a more native version of your speech. It is OK especially for intermediate level students but, for the price, it could be much better just by adding a few more features and improving the feedback.