Memrise: Languages for life

Memrise

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About this app

Memrise is a language learning app for people who have a specific reason to learn. Trusted by 80 million learners, Memrise offers specialised courses for your goals: passing an exam, speaking confidently at work, building relationships, or discovering cultures you love. Unlike gamified apps with robotic voices, it's built around real native-speaker videos - so you learn to speak like real people.

Learn Spanish, Korean, Japanese or 146 other languages in lessons that teach you vocabulary, listening and speaking as if you were a local living in the country!

New languages: Latin 🏴, Finnish 🇫🇮, Irish 🇮🇪, Ancient Greek 🇬🇷, Czech 🇨🇿, Hungarian 🇭🇺, Cantonese 🇨🇳, Romanian 🇷🇴, Esperanto 🏴, Afrikaans 🇿🇦, Croatian 🇭🇷, Kurdish 🇰🇼, Serbian 🇷🇸, Bulgarian 🇧🇬, Azerbaijani 🇦🇿

Choose a language from Spanish 🇪🇸🇲🇽, Korean 🇰🇷, Japanese 🇯🇵, English 🇬🇧🇺🇸, French 🇫🇷, Italian 🇮🇹, Portuguese 🇵🇹🇧🇷, German 🇩🇪, Polish 🇵🇱, Russian 🇷🇺, Turkish 🇹🇷, Arabic 🇸🇦, Chinese 🇨🇳, Dutch 🇳🇱, Danish 🇩🇰, Icelandic 🇮🇸, Mongolian 🇲🇳, Norwegian 🇳🇴, Slovenian 🇸🇮, Yoruba 🇳🇬, Hindi 🇮🇳, Ukrainian 🇺🇦, Thai 🇹🇭, Swahili 🇹🇿🇰🇪, Swedish 🇸🇪, Hebrew 🇮🇱, Greek 🇬🇷, Indonesian 🇮🇩, Welsh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿, Tagalog 🇵🇭, Persian 🇮🇷, Vietnamese 🇻🇳. Also: Hausa, Somali, Galician, Igbo, isiXhosa, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malay, Māori, Albanian, Lithuanian, Catalan, Georgian, Sanskrit, Bengali, Estonian, Nepali, Scottish Gaelic, Slovak, Latvian, Basque, Punjabi, Zulu, Khmer, Tibetan, Hakka and more!

Whether you're a beginner starting from scratch, an intermediate learner building confidence, or an advanced learner perfecting your conversational skills, Memrise has everything you need to succeed.

Download Memrise and make this year the one where you confidently:

❤️ Connect with your partner and their family ✈️ Have a better time while travelling 💡 Sharpen your mind learning a language for brain health 📖 Prepare for a language exam 💼 Connect with colleagues 🎨 Better understand different cultures

How does Memrise help you learn Spanish, Korean, Japanese, and more?

Choose from hundreds of lessons inspired by real-life scenarios
Build your vocabulary with essential words and phrases locals actually use
Practice listening with videos featuring native speakers in everyday settings
Gain confidence speaking with AI Buddies: personalised language-learning bots. Practice sentence-building, grammar, conjugation, and all the essential skills to sound fluent in your new language

⭐ Helping 80+ million learners speak confidently ⭐ Featured in BBC World Service, Condé Nast Traveller, Lonely Planet and more

What other learners say

★★★★★ "I've been using Memrise for about two years, studying European Portuguese. I have the paid version - it's a solid learning tool, and it has been my primary resource ever since I got it. I find the Learn with Locals feature to be especially useful, more so as my Portuguese improves. My wife and I spent a couple of weeks in Portugal a few months ago, and we were able to handle all of our transactions - stores, restaurants, markets, car rental, etc!" — Voloúre

Get the practice you need with Memrise Pro

Memrise Pro ✓ Unlock all vocab lessons ✓ Unlock all native speaker videos ✓ Unlimited speaking practice ✓ Ad free

Compare with our Free Plan — Limited vocab lessons · Limited videos and conversations · Not ad free

PLEASE READ: A Memrise Pro subscription is required to access all learning features. These vary depending on your device's language and language pair. Once purchased, subscriptions will automatically renew unless cancelled before the end of the current payment period. Subscriptions can be managed in your Google Play Store account. To enable some features of the Memrise app we may need to ask for your permission. You can change permissions at any time in your settings.

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Ratings and reviews

Used a few hours and am impressed compared to similar aps. I didn't know I could select more than 1 word list, so I wound up doing semi-advanced conversations for moving abroad, which is a bit too difficult currently (yet still had fun). I tried going backward in lessons but couldn't, so I deleted all progress and am starting anew. Lessons have no tags/labels, so navigation is a bit convoluted. Will have to see what else is on here and re-review.

This app has potential. My biggest things are having to pay to have the grammatically explained to you. Limiting those explanations make it harder to fully grasp language learning. Also, the lessons move way too fast. When answering a question, you can't just reflect on it for a second, because it almost immediately goes to the next question. Navigating through the app is overwhelming and showing lessons that free users cannot access is just distracting. Learning common phrases does help.

I tried Babel and wasn't very motivated to continue the lessons. I tried to listen to the recommended podcast, but eventually I quit altogether. I can't say that I'm a stellar student at Memrise, but when I saw the deal for a lifetime membership, I jumped at the opportunity. I really like the lesson format, especially being able to see the people speaking. I like to see their mouths to help with my pronunciation. I also like that they mix up several words and phrases in the same lesson.

What’s new

We have retired community courses from the app in this build. All of your community courses and your learning progress in them have been moved to a new Community Courses website. To read more and head to this new site, please search for the Memrise blog.