The Best Apps For iOS And Android To Learn Languages

 The Coronavirus has all forced us to limit travel and social relationships. Training schools also had to equip themselves with distance learning courses.

This is precisely why language learning apps are having great success in this period. So what better time to learn a language from home or from your workplace to improve......

Learning a new language is easier today with new digital technologies. Let's see how.

Have you already dealt with people of different languages ​​and nationalities? You have probably noticed how good foreigners from other countries (especially in Northern Europe) are at learning and speaking foreign languages. 

The reason is that some of these countries are bilingual from birth. At school and in the family, from an early age, it is normal to know and speak at least two languages, one of which is normally the English language. To learn a language, there is nothing better than living abroad for a period of time. Unfortunately not everyone can afford it ...

Fortunately, technology comes to our aid. English, French, Spanish or Chinese: today there are numerous smartphone applications that allow you to learn foreign languages ​​directly from your phone.
Among the best apps to learn languages ​​for iOS and Android, we point out “Duolingo“. Available in the Google Play Store, the App Store and for Windows Phone,

 Duolingo is one of the best applications available on the market for learning the basics of any foreign language. We must complete the exercises trying not to make mistakes in order to get the highest score and be able to unlock the next levels. 

Duolingo uses the suggestions of its users to improve the quality of the questions and make the application easier to use.

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Busuu

Busuu is an online social network service for language learning. The peculiarity of the platform is the possibility for each user to help other students improve their language skills.

 All with the help of over sixty million international native speakers. It is an app for those who want to learn and speak a new language correctly in a simple and fast way.

Babbel

Babbel is a foreign language learning platform available in 14 languages, 190 countries and with 20 million registered users worldwide. The first lesson is free, but only that. It offers diversified exercises in comprehension of written and oral language, writing and pronunciation, grammar lessons and those aimed at perfecting pronunciation with voice recognition.

Rosetta Stone

Rosetta Stone allows you to learn Spanish, English, French, German, Chinese, Arabic, Dutch, Filipino, Hebrew, Hindi, Greek, Japanese, Irish, Korean, Portuguese, Polish, 

Persian, Russian, Vietnamese, Turkish or Swedish thanks to the intuitive “Full Immersion” method. 

Thanks to a personal tutor, learning one of the 24 languages ​​offered by Rosetta Stone is simple and intuitive. 

Rosetta Stone is a free application, but you pay for it if you want to unlock premium content and advanced courses.

 Through the exercises, you learn new vocabulary, the basics of grammar and the correct pronunciation of words. 

They also familiarize themselves with the specific vocabulary used on special occasions, such as business trips, and company presentations. For companies, targeted courses are provided.

 As well as for Android and iOS, Rosetta Stone is also available for the Amazon Kindle Fire tablet.

Memrise

Memrise focuses, unlike all the apps we have seen so far, mainly on visual memory: users have to associate, through exercises, images to words.

 In this way, learning is quicker and more fun. 

With Memrise you can learn up to 40 new words per hour and, to improve listening comprehension and pronunciation, the recordings are performed by a native speaker. The courses can be downloaded to the memory of your smartphone so that they can be consulted from anywhere and at any time.

 The application is accessible both in Google Play and within the App Store.

Tandem

Tandem, on the other hand, is an app for conversing with native speakers. 

The idea is that we can help each other learn a language using messages, voice and video chat. It is a real language exchange, useful for those who already know a language but want to become more fluent.

VocApp 

Finally, VocApp is a free application available for Android and iOS that allows users to learn new words quickly and easily through the use of flashcards. They are cards on which the foreign word you want to memorize is written, accompanied by its translation into Italian. VocApp is a tool that offers many options: we can download flashcards already created by users or create them ourselves in just a few seconds from images, texts or even using your voice via voice recognition.
Learning a new language is by no means impossible. Especially with technologies like these. However, learning is something that needs time, effort and patience. Let's think about how we learned to speak as children: at first with a few words, then after a few months we articulated the first sentences. We were not discouraged if we spoke or articulated the words poorly: speaking a language poorly is the first step to speaking it well.