TALL Embark -Language Learning

Global Educational Technologies

About this app

Embark is a language learning app to help prepare missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Embark can be used by anyone.
Over 60 Languages, 2,500+ words, 500+ phrases and more
● Tune your ear to native speakers
● Learn new sounds and symbols
● Master vocabulary needed to create your own sentences
● Master useful phrases to begin conversing right away
● Learn the structure of the language

Missionaries are encouraged to use Embark once they receive their call, during the MTC as well as while they are on their mission to learn gospel and daily missionary language.
To maximize your learning
● Use daily for 15-60 minutes
● Complete spaced review each day
● Record and compare your voice to native speaker to get used to speaking
● Use what you learn right away in real conversation
● Make it your own by creating from what you are learning

Ratings and reviews

This app is absolute dog trash. The pronunciations on words are completely different all the time. It's pronunciations are often wrong when I cross check it with other sources like google translate. The app barely functions half the time. Buttons are not responsive and don't do anything half the time. I am trying to prepare for a mission in which I need to learn Spanish but I can't with an app that's as bad as this one.

Use it!! Great for popular languages; the ability to edit content is cool but has turned out to be a quirky bolt-on. (This is especially relevant to those of us working on non-popular languages with flawed and fragmentary content.) Version 4.6.47 fixes the worst of the problems I have observed recently; two big ones persist (failure to display/use user content, and UI slowdown/crashes) which I have reported to the team. Report problems when you find them, and give details - the team listens.

The Feedback button (accessed from the three vertical dots in the upper right corner of a lesson) does not work. It appears to do absolutely nothing. At least, nothing besides removing the "Continue" button from the current lesson being worked on, preventing you from moving on in the lesson. I can either exit out of the lesson to gather the current gathered experience, or I can exit the app. This is from the German suite, it may be different for other languages.