Lingvist is the language learning app built by scientists and language experts that teaches vocabulary better than anyone else in the world. The depth of our AI-powered courses combined with the latest research in machine learning gets you using a language with high proficiency, fast.
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WHY LINGVIST?
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Learn the vocabulary that appears most often in a language first, allowing you to accelerate your learning.
READ, WRITE, SPEAK, AND LISTEN
Perfect your pronunciation using sophisticated speech recognition technology or type your answers. Every sentence has audio to ensure you hone your listening skills.
FOR SERIOUS LEARNERS
Your learning efficiency is our focus. Enjoy a clean UI with no advertising, no unnecessary clicks, and no distractions.
REMEMBER A LANGUAGE FOREVER
Using scientifically proven spaced repetition methodology, the vocabulary gets fixed in your long-term memory over time.
LEARN GRAMMAR IN CONTEXT OR AS A FOCUS
Acquire grammar passively like a native with our bite-sized sentences, or practice conjugating French verbs in our French course.
SPECIALIST VOCABULARY FOR YOU
Submit your own words, images, or text and Lingvist will automatically gather vocabulary related to the theme for you to learn. Whether it’s Harry Potter in German or Spanish colors, you can learn the words most important to you. Our AI works intelligently to provide appropriate context for vocabulary.
MOTIVATIONAL STATISTICS
Packed with data on your learning progress, you’ll be able to chart your path to success.
A MUST-HAVE TOOL IN YOUR BAG
Do you live in your target country, use a tutor or language school, or even read books, listen to podcasts, or watch content in your target language? Lingvist works best when used in parallel with other learning methods. It’s the difference between passing your test or acing it. Lingvist is the perfect complement to learn faster and boost your vocabulary.
LEARN BY DOING
Getting it wrong is one of the fastest ways to learn, and your brain will start to remember very quickly.
PERSONALIZED SETTINGS
Every learner is different. Personalize your learning to suit you, with various settings allowing you to learn with extra slow speech, strict diacritics, and even grammar tables.
PERSONALIZED LEARNING PLAN
We'll serve you new words that are most relevant to you. As we measure your memory curves, we ask you to repeat words at the optimal time – just before you forget them. This way, you'll always know what to learn next.
LANGUAGE LEARNING MADE EASY
Whether you are planning on spending this summer in Italy and need to learn Italian, or your next adventure is taking up a course in Germany and you need an app to learn German, or you're heading to Korea and you need to learn Korean, we have you covered. Our language learning techniques will help you to get fluent in over 16 languages.
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Lingvist is like a MAGIC WAND for language acquisition
Tilly210
Lingvist is hands down the best language learning app out there, and, believe me, I have tried them all (including all of the fully paid versions). I took French in school, but never learned to actually speak the language (despite always getting As). Over the years, I have wanted to fix that and finally learn the language for real, once and for all. I am not exaggerating when I say I have tried ALL the language learning apps out there (and not just the free versions, but the fully paid subscriptions). Many were useless, some were very good, but nothing compares to Lingvist. When I started using Lingvist, MAGIC happened. Suddenly, I was able to read novels (actual novels written for adults) in French, including books that I had purchased years ago but given up on as impossibly difficult, and even watch many movies/TV shows in French (something I had all but forsaken). Lingvist made my vocabulary EXPLODE—and somehow, I just remember the words I learn in Lingvist so much better than through other similar apps. As if that weren’t enough, Lingvist has an amazing feature that lets you create custom decks of words to learn. All you have to do is type in a list of words you want to learn, and Lingvist defines them and creates sentences with them. You can even tell Lingvist to expand on your custom list and find other similar words to add. I have no idea why Lingvist is so much more effective than other similar apps, but it just is. It’s like a magic wand for language acquisition. I feel like I have had pixie dust sprinkled on me.
Developer Response
Thank you so much for this incredibly thoughtful review! We’re thrilled to hear how much progress you’ve made with your French and that Lingvist helped you get to the point where you can read novels and enjoy movies and TV in the language. That’s exactly the kind of real-world impact we hope to support.It’s especially great to hear that the vocabulary training and custom decks have been useful for you. Being able to learn words that are personally relevant—and expand on them—is something we designed to help learners move beyond generic lessons and into the language they actually want to use.Thank you for sharing your experience and for learning with Lingvist!
The BEST APP for vocabulary...but...
JoeMD666
This app is amazing. It’s everything you need to expand your vocabulary in German, Russian, French, Spanish, or Portuguese. Most apps give you just the basics and some structure—even Rosetta Stone—this app teaches you an immense amount of words. Absolutely worth the subscription price for the serious learner.Having all that said, there is one thing this app desperately needs—to understand we’re busy and we can’t always manage daily studying or even weekly studying. It desperately needs “levels” of some sort so we can go back and study all the words we’ve learned before. I remember quite a bit of them, but after two months of not using them or more, it would be great if I could go back and review those words at-will. Having all that said, I’ve completed the Rosetta Stone and Duolingo courses and they were okay for the basics, perhaps a few days travel in a country that speaks your targeted language, but this was the vocabulary breakthrough I needed to make German radio stations much more intelligible. It’ll help you get to the point where you can reasonably understand most of the conversations others speak. Great job, Lingvist team, now please consider those additions to the app.
Developer Response
We appreciate your detailed analysis and feedback very much! Since our ultimate goal is to "hack" our brain by beating memory curves, Lingvist should prepare the cards you need to practice and revise after weeks or even months of absence. It's evident that we still have room for improvement, thank you very much for the suggestions and we will discuss your idea internally. Please reach out to hello@lingvist.io if you have other comments!
Decent but needs work
Frankoforte_24
Overall I like this app but it has flaws. The app should accept alternative words in the phrases, not insist on me having to learn another word. I already know how to say this. (learning a language is hard enough) Secondly, the voice option capitalizes the first spoken word (when more than one word is needed) and then it doesn’t accept the solution, it wants lower case , then I end up having to type it in by hand. Sort of negates the voice option. Thirdly: Everything is spoken by a robot who really can’t pronounce Italian 100%. It sounds like an alien and according to my Italian teacher the robot actually makes mistakes inflecting some words the wrong way. Recordings of real people would be much better. Also the algorithms throw the words at you that you don’t know, especially within the first 10-20, out of 50. It would be better to intersperse it more; ask for words we already know, so we can first warm up a little and feel better about ourselves. What’s good: learning words in context, in sentences. It doesn’t look like a stupid videogame. I don’t want virtual trophies and be overly praised for no reason. In case any of you Schmucks are actually ever reading this: we should not be rated by including the new word performance! After all, they’re new! Percentages should be based on repeats only. Bye. Off to find something better.
Developer Response
Thank you for the review of our AI-powered language-learning app! We are thankful for the suggestions and feedback, please rest assured that it will be forwarded to the corresponding department. If you feel like sharing more thoughts about the app with us, please feel free to send us an email via hello@lingvist.io. Our support team will forward your comments to the corresponding department for consideration.
Useful but flawed vocabulary builder
ieoslej
In ways, Lingvist is Duolingo for grownups—more advanced and without Duolingo’s annoying animations and autogenerated encouragement. And Lingvist does a much better job of targeting the areas where a particular user needs work. But Lingvist has a key shortcoming: it doesn’t help users understand why a particular synonym is correct in a particular context. Why, for instance, is “gleich” rather than “nun” or “jetzt” the right answer for a particular prompt? Occasionally a notification tells the user that the answer isn’t wrong but isn’t the word Lingvist is trying to teach, but even these notifications often don’t appear when they should. And the English translations seem unreliable. For instance, “Ermöglichen” and “sorgen für” are both translated as “ensure”, but “make possible” and “take care to” are probably better translations. And obviously “yield” isn’t the right translation for the past-tense verb “ergab”. Consequently the user too often must simply learn by rote to provide a particular answer for a particular prompt without knowing why.
Developer Response
Thank you very much for the review of our AI-powered language-learning app! We are happy to hear that you liked our design and approach. We also find ourselves different from Duolingo. Our priority is ensuring every user grows his/her vocabulary as quickly as possible, without focusing on gamification too much. Knowledge and efficiency are of utmost importance for the Lingvist team :) What concerns your remark about the synonym system, I will definitely forward it to our team for review and consideration. By the way, we add new language courses every 2-3 weeks, so please stay tuned for our updates :)
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