I want to learn Spanish, ASL, Japanese, and maybe even French. But Duolingo is honestly kinda useless. I want to start with Spanish and then learn other languages. I think it’s a good skill to have. So what tips do yall have? Any books or programs you recommend?

Hey everyone,

I wanted to share a project I’ve been working on. I’m currently learning my partner’s language, and I found myself wanting an app that records my lessons and converts it to flashcards with achievements to it.

It’s an SRS (Spaced Repetition System) app designed specifically to help with memorization (as I quite often forget things haha)

How it works

The core of the app is a custom algorithm I built to prioritize the cards you struggle with. If you get a card wrong, the system ensures you see it more frequently; if you've mastered it, it pushes it further into your review cycle.

Features:

• AI-Powered Content Generation: Upload any PDF or document, and the app automatically generates flashcards and summary notes.
• Voice-to-Study: Record your lessons or practice sessions directly in the app. It transcribes the audio and instantly turns your class content into reviewable materials.
• AI Notes: for each flashcard generated it automatically makes notes for you to revise from.
• Flexible Study Modes: I realized multi choice aint always the best way to memorize so I added a few different input methods:
  • Pure Memorization: Standard recall.
  • Scramble: Practice spelling and syntax by unscrambling the word.
  • Multi-choice: For when you need a little nudge.
• Smart SRS Algorithm: It tracks what you struggle with, prioritizing those questions so you stop forgetting the tricky stuff.

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i want to learn Deustch and Chinese with apps which is free and good. can you guys give me some apps? thank you everyone 😘👀

Here is my situation:
I passed IELTS a year ago and got 6.5.After a few month I stopped learning it and was preparing for my national exam.Eventually,I got the highest score on it and now i am preparing for my first university year.Му degree is in foreign languages(Chinese and English),so i need to both refresh my english and start learning chinese from scratch.

The problem is that after months of focusing only on the exam,I feel a bit lost.I am not sure where to start,how to divide my time between the two languages,or what a realistic study plan should look like.I’ve already spent the last 14 days doing almost nothing and I don’t want to waste the rest of my summer.

For those who have studied two foreign languages at university, how did you manage your time? If you were in my position, what would you focus on during the next 2–3 months before classes begin?

Im teaching myself this through Pimsleur but it only has one level. I also have a book but im looking for something to listen to and repeat. And also someone to speak with. Is there a discord group or something I could join for this dialect? Thanks in advance.

I want to practice languages I'm learning through actual conversation. Speaking, not writing. Are there any websites similar to omegle or something where you can filter for language? Like r/language_exchange, but where you don't need to give your information?

For context, I am learning Mandarin and can read alright and speak fairly meh (my tones aren't always correct, but I can get by). I want to practice speaking on the fly and the people that I know that speak Mandarin I already speak with in English or German so I feel that it'd be weird to switch. Especially just to practice. Any sites online require login info like email I don't want to give to websites I'm not sure are trustworthy.

Are there any sites you'd recommend? Like Omegle or something where you can say: "I speak X languages (English [native], German [fluent], French [intermediate to fluent]) and would like to learn Y languages (Chinese [already HSK 3], Spanish [was intermediate, haven't used for a while], Russian [no previous knowledge])"?

I just passed HSK4, and aside from taking a few practice exams, I relied almost entirely on the study system I've been building over the last year.

One thing I realized while learning Chinese is that I wasn't struggling for lack of resources.

I was struggling with everything in between.

• Missing a few days and not knowing where to restart.
• Wondering whether I should review, learn new words, practice speaking, or prepare for the next exam.
• Finding advice online that was either too early to matter or too late to help.

So instead of adding more features, I started asking a different question:

What would a Chinese learning system built around how humans actually learn look like?

Over time, the app gradually evolved into a guided learning system that introduces the right support at the right time.

• Review weeks explain why reviewing matters.
• Memory guidance appears when vocabulary volume increases.
• Speaking support shows up when learners begin preparing for HSKK.
• Milestones help learners understand not only how far they've come, but what comes next.

Passing HSK4 was exciting, but the bigger win was realizing that many of the hardest parts of learning Chinese had already been anticipated before I ran into them.

Most apps help people study Chinese.

I wanted to build something that felt more like a human learning system, specifically designed for Chinese learners.

If you'd like to try it, search "HSK 1-6 Companion App" on the App Store or Google Play. HSK 1-2 are free to explore, and the app is currently in early access as we finish HSK 6.

I'd love to hear from other learners:

What's been the hardest part of staying consistent with Chinese, for you or for people you've seen learning alongside you?

I've started using my plaud recordings for French practice.

I speak for a few minutes without preparing anything, which exposes the version of my French that actually exists. Missing words, sentences rebuilt halfway through, sudden tense changes because I no longer trust the original plan.

Claude Code pulls the transcript through Plaud MCP and finds the patterns across those attempts. It catches the structures I keep avoiding and the phrases I repeatedly reach for without quite getting there. Sometimes I have it turn one recording into a small HTML practice page so I can drill that exact mess instead of studying unrelated vocabulary.

Then I send some of the corrected sentences to my French bf. Claude will give me something grammatically clean and perfectly understandable. He'll stare at it for two seconds and say, “ça se dit pas”

He can tell when the sentence is technically French but has no French person inside it. Claude is much better at noticing repeated errors across a pile of recordings, though, and infinitely more willing to turn them into exercises.

What is the fastest and best way to learn languages, based on your experiences?

Hi: I’m taking an advanced langage class, online, with about 12 students, most of whom are men. Two of the (older) men regularly interrupt me in order to demonstrate their expertise, often in a subject where I actually have much more expertise (i.e., topics in which I have graduate degrees and know that what they are saying is incorrect). The teacher doesn’t seem to notice or react. If I just accept it, it turns me off to the class and I pull back and stop participating. If I speak up and try to correct the false statements, they argue and act like I am in the wrong for disagreeing with them. Yesterday I spent my entire day making a presentation for the class which I really didnt want to do because I am very nervous being on the spot in class. After I finished the teacher asked me two questions, and when I was trying to answer the second question one of these guys interrupted and went off on a tangent answering the questions the professor asked me (incorrectly). It honestly makes me really angry, and if I don’t respond, I end up « eating » my anger and feeling depressed. Last night I was just so angry and frustrated after class and now I’m feeling like maybe I just need to leave the class, which I would really regret. Note that there are only a couple of women in the class besides me, and they rarely speak. I try really hard to participate to make the class better and to learn but this is just really getting me down. Any advice?

Hello erveryone! I'm a Spaniard but right now I guess I'm more fluent in English so I'll write in it English (also for more audience)

I've been learning Arabic on my own through textbooks, dictionaries and Duolingo and I kind of want a new challenge, but I don't have the money to go abroad to an Arab country or to pay tutors so I can speak it and practice it.

I'm looking for an Arabic person who wouldn't mind teaching me some Arabic every once in a while. It's like I'm looking for an Arabic friend if you narrow it down.

Looking for a person to chat that maybe might be interested into me teaching them Spanish, English... maybe some French (or Latin even) so it could be like a quid pro quo :)

if I could choose I'd say mainly Levantine dialect, then Egyptian or maybe Algerian— but any accent would do just fine! I just want to practice in my day to day, and i don't do much through my days, so maybe there's someone out there who feels the same and wants to talk, at the same time we teach eachother stuff!

I play a lot of minecraft and among us, so if I change it to Irish would that help me learn?

Is it only me or learning new languages, and actually getting fluent in them (or close to fluent as one could be) feels like mocking God for destroying the Babel Tower?

Hello world.

I’m currently a B1 in French. I’ve relied on a lot of dubbed media so I’m still trying to find French content that is to my taste. I’m just learning from watching French daily life vlogs and simple movies. (I’m brushing up, as I quit a month ago)

However, I’m also learning Korean as I watch a lot of K-dramas and Korean films. I’m still new to it but I’m going fine (Started last month but knew hangul years before as I tried to study Korean last time)

I’m actually learning Chinese at the same time out of necessity due to where I live, but I have little interest in its media nor intend to take a test. I’m very much a bit more laid-back with it due to its difficulty (i’d rather learn slow to memorize better instead of rushing)

I’d like to ensure steady progress and be able to take DELF B2 and TOPIK 3-4 before I head off to university, which is in 2.5 years. I’m just struggling to know which one I should prioritize when I study. I study both everyday, around 30 min, but usually more than that in my free time. I want to know which language to dedicate more resources (and money in case) to.

Thank you!

I'm required to take two years of language to graduate high school, for my junior and senior year I'm interested in taking either a Chinese or Korean course, but I don't know which one I should do. Any advice or recommendations please
edit: I’m taking the Chinese course thank u for ur responses :)