Product Review of Mondly

If it is your goal to be bilingual, trilingual, or learn 33 languages, Mondly is an effective tool. This app supports free language learning in Spanish, American English, British English, German, French, Chinese, Greek, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Danish, Norwegian, Dutch, Swedish, Korean, Japanese, Arabic, Romanian, Vietnamese, Hindi, Finnish, Indonesian, Hebrew, Polish, Bulgarian, Czech, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Croatian, Finnish, Persian (Farsi), Afrikaans, and Turkish. The forms of learning each language are all unique and high-quality. You will learn vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, sentence structure, keywords, conversational skills, and more with this app. It is geared toward making any level learner of any age become fluent.
Website: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id987873536
What Users Love About the App
“My trip to Greece years ago was wonderful. My ability to speak Greek even the few phrases I had mastered sounded authentic to the people. They were very surprised and appreciative.”
“I love this app when it comes to learning. The hands-free style where I can practice speaking is amazing and I’ve been able to put into practice the kanji, katakana, and hiragana I’ve been learning on my own.”
“I truly enjoy the app, it’s just and very refreshing to see that their added new things to it every so often. New languages, new ways to learn. I’ve been using this app on and off for quite some time mostly do to work and everything is especially given the time that we’re in.”
“One of the best teaching apps on the market. I am a private voice specialist and very often we work in foreign languages. This is absolutely one app of the best that I’ve ever seen for education and recreation.”
“I have made Mondly a part of my daily language learning. I’ve found myself adding more languages and learning them more consistently. The daily lessons are perfect for me to be consistent with even a few minutes daily. And it’s so much fun!!”
What Users Dislike About the App
“I installed the app and paid for lifetime access and I have access to virtually nothing. There is a window where they ask you to translate a sentence and it is only one word with the letters to spell that word showing, nothing on that page will respond to any input except cancel the lesson. You cannot advance beyond that broken page.”
“I recommend against using this app to learn languages. I believe it’s not designed well to learn, and, even worse, it teaches things that are unnatural or even grammatically wrong. Issues: unnatural voice recordings that sound like they have the wrong sounds. unnatural conversations that I can’t imagine hearing in real life.”
“The lesson format is not intuitive, throws a lot of new, unfamiliar vocab at you and then penalizes you for not knowing the correct words! No translation is provided for some of the new vocab.”
“For starters, the content doesn’t change at all depending on what level you say you are on (so why ask) and it’s all very basic. No stringing together of sentences which is super important for context and grammar. But the simplest thing of all to fix which really makes me believe they just aren’t trying is they can’t even add the articles when you learn the Vocab.”
“If you’re learning Afrikaans, there are not a lot of options for learning apps. Unfortunately Mondly was fairly disappointing. There were several errors in nearly every section. It wasn’t particularly well structured for building day by day your vocab and pronunciation. No explanation whatsoever for grammar, spelling or pronunciation rules.”