Innovative Language Learning

Name: Innovative Language Learning
Rating: 4.7 (33681 reviews)
Author: Innovative Language Learning USA LLC

Speak Spanish, French, German

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad

34K Ratings
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4+
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Education
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Innovative Language Learning USA LLC
Language

EN
English
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55
MB

Want to speak a new language from your 1st lesson? Learn practical conversations fast with fun audio/video lessons made by real teachers. With Innovative Language Learning, you can learn up to 34 languages. Download the App for FREE and start speaking today! === 4 REASONS WHY YOU CAN & WILL LEARN A LANGUAGE === START SPEAKING IN MINUTES: Audio/video lessons are just 3-15 minutes. Just press “Play” and learn practical conversations in every lesson. LEARN FROM REAL TEACHERS Feel confident as you learn from actual teachers and hear real-life conversations. INSTANTLY PRACTICE WHAT YOU’VE LEARNED Tired of learning and forgetting immediately after? That’s why after every few lessons, you’ll get tested on what you’ve learned with our Assessments. 16+ YEARS OF TEACHING LANGUAGES With 2+ billion lesson downloads and 16 years of teaching languages, you’re learning with a time-tested, proven system. === WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING === "This is always my first port of call when starting a new language.” - The Guardian "A painless and FREE way to bone up on the language.” - PC Magazine “Of particular note is SurvivalPhrases, which offers 3- to 5-minute episodes that cover basics.” - The New York Times === 34 LANGUAGES AVAILABLE === Afrikaans Arabic Bulgarian Cantonese Chinese Czech Danish Dutch English Filipino Finnish French German Greek Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Indonesian Italian Japanese Korean Norwegian Persian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Spanish Swahili Swedish Thai Turkish Urdu Vietnamese === WHAT’S INSIDE THE APP === Start now and access hundreds of audio and video lessons by real teachers, lesson notes, study tools and more. You get: - A 7-Day Free Premium Trial of Any of Our Language Courses (Free) - New Audio & Video Lessons EVERY Week for LIFE (Free) - Offline Mode - Download Lessons to My Library (Free) - Daily Vocabulary Lessons Delivered to Your Email (Free) - Progress Syncing Across Devices - Start On One Device & Finish on Another (Free) - Multiple Playback Options - Stream from the App or the Lock-Screen, Skip Ahead & Control the Speed of Your Lessons (Free) - The Largest Library of Audio & Video Lessons (Basic Users & Above) - In-Depth Lesson Notes with Grammar Explanations (Basic Users & Above) - Progress Tools to Track Your Learning Progress (Basic Users & Above) - Line-by-Line Breakdowns of Lesson Dialogues (Premium Users & Above) - Word Bank - Your Own Custom Vocabulary List (Premium Users & Above) - 1-on-1 Learning with Your Own Teacher (Premium PLUS only) - Get a Personalized Learning Program & Guidance (Premium PLUS Only) === DOWNLOAD THE APP & LEARN FREE TODAY. === Download the App and sign up for your Free Lifetime Account. You get a 7-day Trial of our entire Learning System – both the mobile app and the desktop version! Want to add Basic, Premium, or Premium PLUS and learn on your device and computer? There's an option for that, too. *Please note that subscriptions made using the in-app purchases will auto-renew at the end of the subscription period and be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the end of your current subscription period. Subscriptions made through in-app purchases cannot be cancelled during active subscription period. Please see this article for managing your in-app subscriptions and auto-renewal: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4098 Monthly Premium PLUS Access: $46.99/month per language Monthly Premium Access: $24.99/month per language Monthly Basic Access: $7.99/month per language *all amounts are in US dollars. At Innovative Language Learning, we take your privacy very seriously. You can view our privacy policy here: http://www.innovativelanguage.com/privacy You can view our Terms of Service here: https://www.innovativelanguage.com/terms-of-service

Ratings & Reviews

4.7

out of 5

34K Ratings

Great product
10/16/2017

SarahMty
I was skeptical at first trying to learn Japanese this way- when I hear the audio and it's so fast it is overwhelming! But I find the different ways they teach you and reinforce the material to be super helpful. I can go over the lessons again and again, as well as individual portions. I love the app, it's a lot more user friendly then the website. I was ready to quit even my "free" premium trial of the website when I found the app, and it changed my mind. I put it on Bluetooth in my car and practice on my way to work. The video lessons cover different things and I find the detailed tips and visuals on pronunciation particularly helpful. Certain sounds are just not done in English, and it really is a struggle. I had a particular breakthrough today with one of the video lessons explaining the cadence of Japanese and showing how to pronounce it. Really great! I recommend learning hiragana and not relying on romanii, as it does actually make pronouncing it easier. I will be continuing with this for sure.

Developer Response
Thank you very much for your kind feedback. It truly means a lot to all of us to hear our app and content are helping you with your Japanese studies. I hope we can continue to help you along in future as well.If you ever need any assistance, you can always contact us directly here: http://bit.ly/1ZF5Z9k
Great product
10/16/2017

SarahMty

I was skeptical at first trying to learn Japanese this way- when I hear the audio and it's so fast it is overwhelming! But I find the different ways they teach you and reinforce the material to be super helpful. I can go over the lessons again and again, as well as individual portions. I love the app, it's a lot more user friendly then the website. I was ready to quit even my "free" premium trial of the website when I found the app, and it changed my mind. I put it on Bluetooth in my car and practice on my way to work. The video lessons cover different things and I find the detailed tips and visuals on pronunciation particularly helpful. Certain sounds are just not done in English, and it really is a struggle. I had a particular breakthrough today with one of the video lessons explaining the cadence of Japanese and showing how to pronounce it. Really great! I recommend learning hiragana and not relying on romanii, as it does actually make pronouncing it easier. I will be continuing with this for sure.
Developer Response 11/16/2021
Thank you very much for your kind feedback. It truly means a lot to all of us to hear our app and content are helping you with your Japanese studies. I hope we can continue to help you along in future as well.If you ever need any assistance, you can always contact us directly here: http://bit.ly/1ZF5Z9k
Disappointed..needs tweaking
06/02/2017

Speechdoc
I was looking forward to using the audio lessons in conversation format to supplement another very successful program that has improved my speech of Spanish to a point where I am comfortable expressing (although at a low level)my thoughts in speech. I was very disappointed. In my opinion, the format to the audio conversation lessons is backwards. It is very difficult to listen to a foreign language sentence and then keep that in mind and remember it while your listening to the translation in your home language. It should be your home-spoken language first, then a several seconds pause while you try to speak it in the new language, then the translation in the new language to verify or tweak what you just spoke. That's another thing, it does no good to listen only, with no time during the lesson to repeat and practice immediately after the prompt. If you think about it, it only makes sense that a person first has a thought, then, even in our home language, we put the words together to express that thought. So that cannot happen if we first must listen without really knowing the "thought" and then have to take the subsequent translation and then try to remember how it was said in the new language. Also I tried to slow down the speech but found it was echoing so badly it did not work. I wasn't sure if that was my phone problem or your app. If I have missed any options or settings that would fix my concerns, I apologize in advance.

Developer Response
Thank you for your feedback. The Premium and Mobile Only plans have a feature called Review tracks. This feature allows you to hear the translation of the word and then gives a pause to give the target language answer. The target language answer is given after the pause. The Basic plan does not have this feature available at this time.
Disappointed..needs tweaking
06/02/2017

Speechdoc

I was looking forward to using the audio lessons in conversation format to supplement another very successful program that has improved my speech of Spanish to a point where I am comfortable expressing (although at a low level)my thoughts in speech. I was very disappointed. In my opinion, the format to the audio conversation lessons is backwards. It is very difficult to listen to a foreign language sentence and then keep that in mind and remember it while your listening to the translation in your home language. It should be your home-spoken language first, then a several seconds pause while you try to speak it in the new language, then the translation in the new language to verify or tweak what you just spoke. That's another thing, it does no good to listen only, with no time during the lesson to repeat and practice immediately after the prompt. If you think about it, it only makes sense that a person first has a thought, then, even in our home language, we put the words together to express that thought. So that cannot happen if we first must listen without really knowing the "thought" and then have to take the subsequent translation and then try to remember how it was said in the new language. Also I tried to slow down the speech but found it was echoing so badly it did not work. I wasn't sure if that was my phone problem or your app. If I have missed any options or settings that would fix my concerns, I apologize in advance.
Developer Response 06/04/2017
Thank you for your feedback. The Premium and Mobile Only plans have a feature called Review tracks. This feature allows you to hear the translation of the word and then gives a pause to give the target language answer. The target language answer is given after the pause. The Basic plan does not have this feature available at this time.
App Doesn't Work and Content for Some Languages is Limited and Outdated
06/11/2024

Buddy Bolden
This app works OK the first time you open it after downloading. The next time you use it, it either freezes as soon as you click on a lesson or works for a minute or so and then crashes. The only solution is to delete it, then download it again and start all over. It has been like this for many months now, through multiple updates, and the developer is evidently unable or unwilling to correct the problem(s). A further issue may be that ILL is now attempting to cover too many languages. They have assured me that they release new lessons weekly, yet the upper intermediate and advanced Japanese content seems not to have been augmented or updated in any meaningful way for years. What's there is not terrible, but it isn't great, either – and there's very little of it. In any case, if you're interested in learning a language, rather than wasting your time downloading the same app over and over, you should look elsewhere! (If you're wondering, the only reason I'm still attempting to use this terrible product is that I stupidly purchased a two-year membership, and the app stopped working about nine months in.)

Developer Response
I'm very sorry for the issues you're continuing to have with the app. To some of your points: (1) I'm not sure what part of our content you're looking at, but we release new lessons weekly. (2) While yes, it is an option to developers to reset past ratings when a new update is released, we've never done this. And we never will. While not perfect, we do have a very long rating history of people who have been very happy with the app. It would be foolish for us to wipe all of that out just to try to hide the occasional negative review from people who've unfortunately run into serious problems with the app. (3) There are unfortunately some known issues in v3.2 that were not caught before release that will be fixed in v3.2.1 which is coming very soon. At any rate, if you'll contact us at app@innovativelanguage.com we can try to help address all of your concerns.
App Doesn't Work and Content for Some Languages is Limited and Outdated
06/11/2024

Buddy Bolden

This app works OK the first time you open it after downloading. The next time you use it, it either freezes as soon as you click on a lesson or works for a minute or so and then crashes. The only solution is to delete it, then download it again and start all over. It has been like this for many months now, through multiple updates, and the developer is evidently unable or unwilling to correct the problem(s). A further issue may be that ILL is now attempting to cover too many languages. They have assured me that they release new lessons weekly, yet the upper intermediate and advanced Japanese content seems not to have been augmented or updated in any meaningful way for years. What's there is not terrible, but it isn't great, either – and there's very little of it. In any case, if you're interested in learning a language, rather than wasting your time downloading the same app over and over, you should look elsewhere! (If you're wondering, the only reason I'm still attempting to use this terrible product is that I stupidly purchased a two-year membership, and the app stopped working about nine months in.)
Developer Response 06/10/2024
I'm very sorry for the issues you're continuing to have with the app. To some of your points: (1) I'm not sure what part of our content you're looking at, but we release new lessons weekly. (2) While yes, it is an option to developers to reset past ratings when a new update is released, we've never done this. And we never will. While not perfect, we do have a very long rating history of people who have been very happy with the app. It would be foolish for us to wipe all of that out just to try to hide the occasional negative review from people who've unfortunately run into serious problems with the app. (3) There are unfortunately some known issues in v3.2 that were not caught before release that will be fixed in v3.2.1 which is coming very soon. At any rate, if you'll contact us at app@innovativelanguage.com we can try to help address all of your concerns.
Wonderful Language Learning Program
09/20/2017

Kestralys
I have been an ESL instructor for many years. I have basic fluency in two other languages as well. I recommend this program to everyone I meet who is learning another language, as it's so well done. I have tried both the Prime subscription as well as the Basic subscription for Danish. Both are great depending on how much supplemental material you feel you need. The Prime subscription gives you the option of listening to the individual recorded segments found in both the audio lessons as well as their example material. It also gives you access to a nice flash card system, as well as mini quizzes, among other perks. The Basic subscription gives you access to the entire video and audio library as well, complete with the helpful notes that accompany each lesson. Whenever I exercise, I usually listen to a single audio lesson three times in a row, repeating out loud every Danish word and sentence I hear. I like it that each lesson ends with a little quiz, giving you time to come up with the translation before the answer is given. Then later I read the lesson material (which includes the transcript and notes for Basic membership) and listen again to the audio. The app is very easy to use and lets you download the lessons so you can listen even without an internet connection. Once again, I highly recommend this language learning system. It's simple, fun, as well as informative and thorough.

Developer Response
Thank you very much for your kind feedback. It truly means a lot to all of us to hear our app and content are helping you with your Danish studies. I hope we can continue to help you along in future as well.If you ever need any assistance, you can always contact us directly here: http://bit.ly/1ZF5Z9k
Wonderful Language Learning Program
09/20/2017

Kestralys

I have been an ESL instructor for many years. I have basic fluency in two other languages as well. I recommend this program to everyone I meet who is learning another language, as it's so well done. I have tried both the Prime subscription as well as the Basic subscription for Danish. Both are great depending on how much supplemental material you feel you need. The Prime subscription gives you the option of listening to the individual recorded segments found in both the audio lessons as well as their example material. It also gives you access to a nice flash card system, as well as mini quizzes, among other perks. The Basic subscription gives you access to the entire video and audio library as well, complete with the helpful notes that accompany each lesson. Whenever I exercise, I usually listen to a single audio lesson three times in a row, repeating out loud every Danish word and sentence I hear. I like it that each lesson ends with a little quiz, giving you time to come up with the translation before the answer is given. Then later I read the lesson material (which includes the transcript and notes for Basic membership) and listen again to the audio. The app is very easy to use and lets you download the lessons so you can listen even without an internet connection. Once again, I highly recommend this language learning system. It's simple, fun, as well as informative and thorough.
Developer Response 11/16/2021
Thank you very much for your kind feedback. It truly means a lot to all of us to hear our app and content are helping you with your Danish studies. I hope we can continue to help you along in future as well.If you ever need any assistance, you can always contact us directly here: http://bit.ly/1ZF5Z9k

v3.2.8 -FIXED: Restored the auto play settings and mark lesson complete/incomplete buttons to the lesson detail screen. v3.2.7 -FIXED: A number of common crashes. -FIXED: An issue that would cause duplicate Review and Dialogue entries when refreshing a lesson. v3.2.6 -FIXED: Various improvements and bugfixes. v3.2.5 -FIXED: Some display issues with My Teacher Messenger. v3.2.4 -FIXED: The back button was broken on iPad in the previous version. -FIXED: Fixed some sorting issues. v3.2.3 -IMPROVED: Updated the help icon in the Menu to match the website. -FIXED: The Upgrade button wasn't working from the Word of the Day screen. -FIXED: The Word of the Day widget was not updating when it should. -FIXED: Various bugfixes and improvements. v3.2.2 -IMPROVED: Added a button to the Menu for quick and easy access to the Word of the Day from anywhere in the app. -FIXED: Japanese lessons were still loading very slowly for some users. -FIXED: For Japanese Word of the Day long kana text was being cut off. -FIXED: various bugfixes and improvements. v3.2.1 -IMPROVED: You can now left and right swipe on the Word of the Day screen to go to the previous and next day's word -FIXED: After tapping on the + button in the Word of the Day screen you couldn't tap off the Add to Wordbank menu to dismiss it. -FIXED: Audio was missing from Word of the Day example sentences. -FIXED: Romanization was missing from Word of the Day for non-Japanese languages. -NEW: Added a handy What's New popup to let you know when new features have arrived. You can also review the most recent What's New notes from the Settings screen. -NEW: You can now view the entire Version history from the Settings screen as well. If you're reading this from the new Version History screen, hi there! -NEW: Access our Help Center from the main Menu and the Settings screen. -FIXED: Various under the hood bugfixes and improvements. v3.2 -NEW: Word of the Day! See the Word of the Day right in the app. Easily add it to your Word Bank if you like. -NEW: Word of the Day widget! Add the Word of the Day to your home screen for quick study and access. -FIXED: An issue introduced in v3.1 that would cause lessons to get stuck on loading for a very long time for some users. -FIXED: Various under the hood bugfixes and improvements. v3.1.4 - FIXED: various bugfixes and improvements. v3.1.3 - FIXED: some crashes. v3.1.1-3.1.2 - FIXED: performance issues introduced with v3.1 that caused very slow loading for some. - FIXED: minor bugfixes and improvements. v3.1 - NEW: the Word bank has had a major overhaul! It's now even easier to add and remove words, organize and manage your labels, and sort your words. - UPDATED: with this update, expansion sentences have been removed from the lesson detail view. Example sentences are now embedded in each vocabulary word entry. - FIXED: links to assessment test now open directly in the app instead of being opened in the web browser. - Lots of other bugfixes and under the hood Improvements. v3.0.1 - FIXED: an error that could cause assessment test results to be calculated incorrectly.

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