Teacher Ranks Best vs Worst Spanish Learning Apps

Duolingo is more user-friendly than Babel. And where else can you pick up Esperanto at the same time?

What do you think about the app “Speak”?

Very helpful content! I personally also found these apps useful: Duolingo, Lingo7, and Beelinguapp

Ella Verbs is incredible. Its only $20 a year, and when I have a question, my email is answered within a day by the actual owners, Brian and Jane. They are a young couple who developed it, and are actually there for you. There are no glitches, no ads, no errors in the content. Strictly verb conjugations. I cant say enough about it.

preply?

You need to look up the word FREE in the dictionary and relearn it. No es libre!

i was taking this video seriously until chat gpt was put in the A category. i used this for a few minuets and I have no Spanish speaking skills at all but it said the most horrendously wrong things and Istopped immediately

I like DuoLingo and have a year subscription to start with but also it a combination of LA Spanish and Spain Spanish, and I need Spain Spanish. I tried Busuu but hated it because it provides sentences for you to fill in the blanks, and the words in the sentences are ones I haven't learned yet. How am I supposed to know what word goes in the blank if I can't read the sentence? So I cancelled that and was looking at Babbel but now you're saying it's not much different from DuoLingo. I'll have to look into the rest of your recommendations.

Is using Gemini just as good as Chatgpt?

DuoLingo is not free; once you install it, your phone now has interest trackers installed with it and the right to sell your private information in exchange for it's use.

spanish dictionary make you pay contrary to what to believe.

anki install total fail for many versions including the most recent. Your chatgpt review was worthless. no information about how to use it. basically you its great, use it.

If you want to learn mandarin, use HelloChinese

memrise? someone i like it

What is your opinion on the Speak app?

Sir, how in the world can you not include Dreaming Spanish??? If you talk to WA tutors, they will tell you it is the app that is churning out Spanish Speakers more than any other app out there. You have to include. Its the only one the provides an actual road map to B2.

Thanks for the great overview

Any thoughts on Speak?

Duo lingo is not free

Comparing Babble to Duolingo: I used Babble for about a year. I think it was good for me to start with Babble. I did not have much in the way of formal Spanish learning going in, and Babble gave some good basics to grammar along with the lessons, where Duolingo really doesn't explain much. However, while Babble covered more ground initially than Duolingo, I found (for me) there was not enough repetition. I felt like I was easily forgetting things I learned just a few lessons back. Babble also spent way to much time on super-specific nouns, like going over the names of historical sites, or a particular goat stew in Argentina (a lot of things I may never need to know). I'm like Dude, get back to regular conversations. After a while, I got very bored and frustrated with Babble, often quitting lessons half way through. Duolingo by comparison was a lot easier to stick with, has more common speaking, and has lots of repetition. This repetition element may be frustrating to some as you're not learning as much new material as quickly. However, the repetition really helps to cement the words/phrases better. I will say that the free version of Duolingo will get annoying quickly with all the adds (which takes up valuable learning time), so I ended up switching to a subscription. I recommend Duolingo as a way to stay plugged in and committed to learning a little Spanish every day, but I agree that I am far from feeling fluent, and I'm ready to try something else to get to the next level. I saw someone else highly recommend Spanish Dictionary, so I may give that a go. As I get more advanced, I will look at some great options with Nate as well.

Duolingo is always pushing some liberal gender BS

busuu?

Duolingo is NOT free.

Spanish dictionary is ONLY 7 days free then $60 a year

Doulingo is complete trash. Please do not use that app.

It tricks you into thinking you're advancing when you're absolutely not

Hellotalk just had too many Indian boys looking for girlfriends for me to recommend it .

Language Transfer is one of my absolute favorites but it's basically a series of lectures. The thing is the lectures are so well explained and build up in a logical way that it's a great place to start and it's full of stuff about Spanish I wish somebody had just explained sooner.

So everything you have an S Tier will make you fluent?

Super helpful and... a little overwhelming, once you had 3 in the S tier I stopped becuase I had what I needed.
Thank you!

Duolingo is fun, I have to admit. I use it for reviewing my French and picked up some Italian. Spanish is my first language.

What about preply?

Great video! What do you think about Jump Speak?

Muchas gracias 👏

Para mi, EllaVerbs fue lo mas útil desde lejos. Y pues iTalki es lo mas chingon

Spanish Dic is not free in the UK.

Speaking practice is great, but what do you recommend for people like me who have difficulty with comprehension.😢

Duolingo has too many ads

Preply > your favourite app.

I'm nearly done with the Spanish program in Pimsleur. You didn't mention this app. Is that because you don't know it or you don't like it?

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Great recommendations. I would add LingQ and language reactor.

Duolingo is exellent for words learning

So helpful Gracias!

Been using Duolingo for several years, and they've gotten rid of a lot of the people based resources they once had in favor of AI, and the quality has suffered. The free version also has third party ads now after each lesson which is obnoxious if you are used to older versions where this was absent. Noticeably now where it didn't happen as frequently or ever in the past, are strange conjugation errors or incorrect translations. It's better than nothing, but definitely have been using it less frequently in favor of other apps.

I would recommend in a future video (if you revisit this topic again) looking at Clozemaster. This is one of my favorite apps now for learning foreign languages, combining game based daily learning, flashcards, vocab, and listening exercises. I use the free version, and I prefer it over Duolingo now. Also curious on your opinion of Rosetta Stone.