oh okay let's do this hi I'm Sabina and today I want to introduce you to seven apps that have
really helped me with my language learning I'm currently learning Spanish and Arabic
and Arabic the one that really allowed me to test how could these apps are because it's a much less
common language to be learning and therefore the resources out there are usually pretty bad all
seven of these apps feature a lot of languages with two in particular being incredibly diverse
and they are all free or at the very least you can use them for free which is what I've been
doing the first up I want to talk about is duolingo which is probably one of the most
popular apps out there it's certainly the one that most people recommend it to me and rightly
so the way you learn through this app is by doing lessons which then help you move on to the next
lessons etc etc until you've gone through all the checkpoints completed all the lessons and finished
the language like personally I have completed Arabic on duolingo but I'm still not very good
Arabic is one of the newest languages that they've added if I'm correct if I'm incorrect and it's not
but it is definitely one of the newer ones I first used this app to learn Arabic and now I've started
learning Spanish through it and I have to say Spanish is a lot better it has loads more content
it's a lot more engaging and fun so I would recommend duolingo primarily if you're studying
one of the more popular languages but I wouldn't write it off I mean I definitely did still enjoy
my Arabic classes one feature of this app that I really like is the gamification they have some
really cool badges and low awards for doing things like logging onto the app every day completing
tasks and challenges learning more words the app gives you quite a few notifications which you can
turn off by the way but it is pretty persistent and it has become the source of many a meme where
the owl is portrayed as a bit of a villain by the way I am doing a 30-day Spanish learning challenge
right now so if you'd like to figure out how that went for me and see the result then click the bell
and subscribe to my channel to make sure you don't miss the video and number two is you talk you tog
doesn't seem to be as popular as duolingo but I actually find it pretty great the one thing
that it does really well is teaching you different phrases and words with the correct pronunciation
Anjou lingo sometimes the pronunciation is a bit auto-generated like with Arabic in
particular sometimes it's just computerized and quite hard to make out how you should actually
be pronouncing it but you talk uses real speakers it feels super natural the dialogue is colloquial
it's exciting it's highly applicable the absolute best thing about you talk though is just how many
languages they have it's actually incredible let me just google it 140 languages that's actually
incredible I know there are over six and a half thousand languages out there something crazy
like that but hundred and forty will definitely keep you busy for at least a few years if the one
downside of this app is that it is much harder to use it without paying money it is possible but it
just takes quite a while to accumulate enough coins in the app to be able to purchase more
lessons but if you do want to pay for it the plans are pretty affordable and you can just
buy a monthly subscription for 10 pounds a month I assume it's gonna be like 10 ish something dollars
so affordable and really really useful next up is drops which is an app I do use but I don't use it
quite as much as the other two primarily because they're Arabic is not amazing the way they handle
the pronunciations again is a bit computerized but if you use it for pretty much any other language
it will work perfectly and it is a good app it just asks you to spend five minutes on it every
day and it is kind of a cool interface I've never encountered anything like it before it
does make learning quite intuitive fun there are loads of different features to play around with
and overall I would say it is very engaging it's nicely designed there's cool like audio effects
I definitely enjoy it it does teach you words that you we wouldn't think to otherwise learn
which is another big bonus and yeah overall just a really cool app very easy to use without paying
for it so nice and free number for the memorize app I have to say the memorize app has kind of
blown my mind with one feature in particular it's called the Explorer feature and what it does is it
enables you to point your camera at an object and then get a translation of what that is like this
app makes me feel like I'm living in the future I think it's honestly incredible I can't believe
their technology is that well developed that ahead of its time and it's free you can again
subscribe with this one and you might have to if you want to use some of the premium features but
the subscription again is quite affordable and I mean that Explorer feature just is absolutely
crazy it does work pretty well as well I have tried to challenge it with different objects
but it never failed me so yeah go memorize okay next up number five by the way I am naming these
in no particular order don't worry number five is tangent no particular order but I have written it
down number five tandem it's a really cool app for those of you who might already have some skills
in a given language but want to practice it with native speakers or other people who are learning
it as well you create a profile you write down which languages you're learning and which ones
you already know and then you're partnered with people who are learning the languages you know and
know the languages you're learning it's a lovely exchange system and they have some really good
filtering features filtering features on language learning apps are something that's particularly
important if you're a woman now maybe I'm being a bit cynical but quite often I have found that
I create a profile on these apps or websites and I get many men reaching out to me and I don't
think what they're thinking about it's language learning which is okay because on this app I can
just filter it by gender so I have been speaking with some lovely ladies from Syria Egypt and other
parts of the Middle East the arabic-speaking world but obviously it's completely up to you
how you filter it and who knows maybe this has a higher success rate than tinder who's to say
when you're chatting with people the app also has quite a few different quite handy features we can
translate their messages you can have the system replayed or kind of read them to you out loud what
else you can comment on different things and give people corrections if they make small mistakes and
stuff like that I actually think this is a great app and I highly recommend you use it the end
number six is I talk I and I have been using this app / website for pretty much a decade I think and
their service is pretty similar to tandem but the one ace up their sleeve is their robust tutoring
system so you can be matched with community tutors who do this for free but you can also be
matched with professional teachers and they are actually really good I did one paid lesson with
a lady from Syria she was so friendly she came really well-prepared the language the sorry the
lesson was really affordable I would definitely do it again in fact I might have to because the
way the system is set up is that you have to buy credits and these are not that flexible it needs
to be 20 30 40 that kind of thing dollars and then you apply those towards your classes and
now I think I have about 20 dollars left so I will need to spend them somehow but I'm pretty excited
about it definitely not complaining I do wish their charging system was a bit more flexible
where you just pay per class but I understand why they're doing this it means more revenue for them
so whatever good on them the service is excellent you can very easily use it for free and they have
one additional feature that I think you'll enjoy a lot especially if you're studying a language at
school or university you can upload written entries and then people will for free go in
and correct them for you so here as an example is a notebook entry I wrote several months ago
and five people have corrected it as you can see people go into a lot of detail and they give it
a lot of love and number seven is an app called high native I haven't used this app as much as
I have used the others but it is extremely handy especially if you're a more advanced learner say
you're writing an essay in English if you're not a native speaker or any other language and you're
struggling with a particular sentence you think mmm does this sound natural or maybe I need to
tweak the wording a little bit well then you can go on to the app write down the sentence and ask
for native speakers to have a look at it and let you know whether that feels natural to them you
can also ask people for different translations how to spell words pretty much anything that you can
think of and then obviously as a good person you can go through the app and correct other people's
work people on there also pretty fast I used to translate a sentence that says please subscribe
to my YouTube channel and somebody replied to me with the translation in Arabic are you ready
or not the big YouTube please subscribe to my channel thank you should correct it as you can
see mastering a language on duolingo doesn't mean that you've mastered it okay these are my
seven apps have you guys ever used any of these and if so what did you think let me know in a
comment below and also let me know what apps you use that I've not mentioned because there
are dozens out there there are so many and I'm sure that there are great apps that I've missed
out in this video purely because I don't know them yet but I would like to so leave them in
a comment below that is it thank you very much for watching and see you next time hopefully bye