* https://www.latudio.com/ - listening first approach, pause and show sentence if you don't understand, practice words you didn't get later, 4 types of exercises, scripted conversations being one of them
We've created an app with listening-first approach and added some very useful features on top of that, like showing a sentence when requested and saving unknown words for later practicing.
There are three exercise types, one is prerecorded conversation where you pick one side and record your pronounciation so you can compare it with a native speaker.
Really glad to see more apps that focus on sentence level speaking and listening. I wish the mobile landing page had more screenshots of the app since my target language is not yet supported.
Also, we're happy to give the app away for free to nonprofits who'd find a use for it for their clients. It is also very easy for us to add domain-specific custom content, should there be an ask for it. If interested, PM me, e-mail is in my profile.
Everyone I know is happy with linux and do not complain at all, instead prefer it over other systems. Me, using linux professionally for the last 15 years I'm just so so happy that system like this exists. Maybe I've been lucky but I've never had permanent problems with it with my last four computers, three of them being notebooks, one desktop. Nothing gets in my way, nothing breaks, I'm more productive than I'd ever be in any other system.
My retired parents would disagree, having happily used Linux Mint for years now. Whenever I need to use Windows while teaching in school, I wonder how people put up with a system that is so user-unfriendly, some would even call it hostile.
The main difference, I feel, is that with Windows you can tell the system is built with a company's interests in mind, while in Linux this feeling is absent, and instead, you can tell the user is at the center of attention. And even if the system may not be perfect, it constantly evolves for the better. Just this difference ensures I will never go back again, nor will I ever recommend anything else.
With Windows, the system is a boss, with linux, you are the boss :)
What about sugar addiction? Read recently an article in the news that that's what is becoming a problem, actually, much more than alcohol or cigarettes. Anecdotally, I see kids around drinking all kinds of sweetened beverages. My friend who cleans at a college picks every day full baskets of empty bottles. And in my school, some parents giving kids chocolates for a snack or kids buying themselves a pack of sweets from their pocket money.
Well, with Latudio [1] a language learning app, we're 6 years in since the first line of code and we still haven't thrown in the towel even if we have little traction. But we still do those small little steps and hope they add up so we have a snowball big enough that it starts rolling by itself, perhaps, one day.
In my mind, I also had a thought that we would rise and be huge, but I let go of that one. Instead, we just put one foot in front of the other and what warms my heart are those stories like when a person in Uganda got so confident thanks to our app that he opened his own language school. For this it makes sense to continue.
What I want now is just to have a nice work/family balance and the app paying my bills and something extra. That would be a great start.
We were considering making typing practice more forgiving, but in the end, you really need to be precise when writing in another language. But your point about the keyboard is a valid one. However, if you really plan taking on another language and you are serious about it, you get to have multiple keyboard layouts at one point anyway. Still, I understand your point and we'll see how we can improve this experience.
Thank you for mentioning Language Transfer. With the way our app is designed, it is actually very easy to add new content and idea about audio lessons is a good one.
What our strong points are is pausing the audio anytime, tapping and translating words and ease of exploring how one word can be used in different contexts and what forms it can take.
Hi Katie, thank you and hope you will find the app useful, if you get to it. I can say only good things about the Hetzner's performance, availability and support.
* https://www.latudio.com/ - listening first approach, pause and show sentence if you don't understand, practice words you didn't get later, 4 types of exercises, scripted conversations being one of them
And a possibility of a one-time purchase.
Disclaimer: I'm a co-founder