OptiLingo - Language Learning 4+

It’s a good app but good be better.

I downloaded this app and gave Korean and Japanese a shot. It’s a good app but a bit limited in terms of function. The app is good, if a bit basic and rigid in terms of it’s structure since every language can’t made to fit into these 100 lessons and expanding and adding on some features will make the app more robust in terms of it’s learning potential. Some additions I would love to see added to the app would be speech recognition to help perfect my pronunciation. The ability to point and click at each word/letter in the sentence and have it replay that particular word. All in all I appreciate the non gamification of the app and it’s strict focus on learning everyday sentences from the start. However, I do also wish the app had specific notes on each sentence ala the Mango language app to put things in context and to indicate additional things to note about that sentence such as Korean having different politeness levels in their speech. The same cold be said for Japanese as they’re certain terms you can only say to a blood relative vs a friend and having a cultural note inbetween the phrases or after would be most helpful.

Developer Response ,

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Good but can improve

Hello, I’m learning Kabardian on it and have a membership. The app is good and has many phrases but I wish they were more phrases and lessons.
Also I noticed they are some discrepancies between the written words and the spoken words in some lessons. For example, it is written ныщхьбэ for tonight , but she is saying нобэ пщыхьэщхьэм in lesson 34 review. There are also other examples of written discrepancies too.

I suggest you guys fix these discrepancies and add pictures to the phrases. Please add titles to the lessons.( I mean if lesson 1 is about introductions then write introductions for the title)
Also it would be nice if you added a verb section for 300 commonly used verbs and their examples in different tenses, in the conditional mood or other moods, with different directional affixes and other affixes for Kabardian and other languages. West Circassian/Adyghean would be nice too.
Also add some more advanced lessons too.

Also I noticed the Arabic section is in formal Fusha which is not so colloquial. Syrian or Egyptian Arabic would be good.
Overall it is good, it has useful phrases and a good amount of review.

Developer Response ,

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App has potential but customer service is slow if needed

I can see the strategy this app uses to teach a language and it has potential. Consistently using the same verb repetitively in the same lesson. I felt I actually knew what a few verbs meant and how to use them after two lessons. I’m currently in India and I want to quickly learn conversational Hindi. I decided to try the 3 month subscription and even tough I paid 7 days ago I still haven’t been able to access any lessons. I don’t have the time to try to fight to get access material. I purchased a phrase book, I’ll have a Hindi speaker read the phrase to me, record the phrase, then repeat it constantly. I won’t be able to group the phrases like this app but my book requires no customer service. You don’t want to wait for that with this app.