LingQ - Language Learning
December 10, 2024
More About LingQ - Language Learning
Dive into a world of authentic content and take charge of your own language journey to get results.
LingQ provides a fun and effective learning experience for all language learners, from beginner to advanced, in 49 languages. Start with basic lessons and quickly progress by exploring authentic content that captivates you.
⭐ 30,200 4.7-star ratings
⭐ Featured in CBC, Men's Health, La Vanguardia, El País
⭐ More than 170k lessons
⭐ Powerful AI-Enhanced Features
Discover the Power of LingQ:
✅ Massive Content Library: Immerse yourself in thousands of hours of lessons generated from podcasts, books, interviews, and more - all with matching text to help you listen and read your way to success.
✅ Import Your Own Content: Turn your favorite Netflix shows, YouTube videos, Podcasts, Books and web articles into personalized language lessons. With the help of AI, read, listen, and learn from content you enjoy.
✅ Powerful Reader: LingQ’s optimized reading interface is the most effective way to read and grow vocabulary. LingQ tracks all words you encounter and gives you the tools to learn them fast.
✅ Interactive Learning: Listen to lessons, follow along in the text, and look up new words instantly. Track your vocabulary growth as you learn in real-time.
✅ Comprehensive Progress Tracking: Monitor your language learning activities, including listening, reading, study time, and vocabulary growth. Track your progress and stay motivated!
✅ Learn Anytime, Anywhere: With LingQ, your learning never stops. Our app lets you study offline and syncs your progress when you’re back online. Make the most of your downtime by learning on the go.
Advanced Learning Tools and Features:
- SRS Vocabulary Review: Reinforce your learning with our SRS (Spaced Repetition System) based vocabulary review.
- Simplify Lessons with Artificial Intelligence: Create beginner-friendly lessons from any content you find online.
- Personalized Playlists: Easily listen to your lessons on the go, synced across all apps.
- Karaoke Mode: Improve your comprehension by reading along as you listen.
- Challenges: Join challenges and challenge yourself and others in the community. Build a habit, set goals, and stay motivated as you track your progress and achievements. How are you doing versus others in the community?
📚 Built by Language Learners, for Language Learners
LingQ was co-founded by Steve Kaufmann, a renowned polyglot who has learned 20 languages. Often called the ""Godfather of Language Learning"", he shares valuable tips on his YouTube channel.
Steve’s YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/user/lingosteve
🌐 Learn Multiple Languages
LingQ supports over 49 languages, including English, French, Spanish, Japanese, Italian, German, Russian, Chinese, Portuguese, Swedish, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Greek, Norwegian, Latin, Esperanto, Ukrainian, Czech, Romanian, Arabic, Finnish, Hebrew, Turkish, and more.
Get LingQ Premium and Accelerate Your Learning:
✔️Unlimited vocabulary lookup and SRS review
✔️Comprehensive word tracking to boost your progress
✔️Unlimited importing of content
✔️Access to AI features
Start your language learning journey with LingQ today!
Visit us at www.lingq.com and discover a smarter way to learn languages
Latest Version
5.7.6
December 10, 2024
LingQ Languages Ltd.
Education
Android
1,418,627
Free
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User Reviews
Adam Smiley
9 months ago
I have found LingQ to be very effective for my language study for three reasons. First and foremost is the "known words" estimate for each article. I can always find a piece of media that is in the learning sweet spot in terms of new word percentage. Second, the large library of articles with audio enables my effective immersion. Finally, the ability to import a wide variety of material I'm interested in. LingQ has definitely been worth the price!
Craig Echelmeier
2 years ago
I like this app. It flows very well and I'm learning lots of new words. There are still parts of the app that I don't fully understand but there's lots of good instructional material available. UPDATE: 10 months later, I'm still using the Lingq app. I have advanced from A1 to B2. I can communicate with Spanish speakers much better now. I really think that this year I will be able to communicate with ease. There is more and more good content available in Lingq every day.
Mark
8 months ago
Wasn't great at partitioning words in Japanese, which I wasn't able to know until after paying for a month of premium. Unreasonably difficult to cancel subscription. Couldn't find any way to cancel from the app, so I had to do it from a web browser. Then they redirect you to a promotion page 5 or 6 times to try to keep you from canceling even after you keep clicking "cancel". I might have given the app another chance with a different language in the future, but I'm turned off by this experience
Greg D
5 months ago
This app has come a LONG way since inception. I use it almost constantly listening to content everywhere I go. But, at an instant, I can stimulate the vision as well which is vastly important to me. I've learned one language to advanced level and another on the way to intermediate. I am eager to begin my third.
Patrick Stetter
5 months ago
Turns out, the best way to learn a language is to read and listen to it a lot. This app helps with the reading part. It helps you quickly translate as you go and keeps you motivated by tracking your progress in different ways. Best of all, you can import the content that you want to read instead of going through boring provided content.
zvcx
5 months ago
Its definitely good, but I dont particularly think its worth the price for whats essentially an ereader with a popup dictionary. Some ways I think it can improve: 1. Have an option to hide word definitions when you tap "Show Sentence" on pages 2. When reading imported content, give the ability to highlight more text at once. Currently, it arbitrarily decides what part of the text is its own sentence and cuts you off from highlighing more of the text at once
Lucas Leville
5 months ago
For me, this is the most convenient way to go through a lot of content. This app makes it so easy to learn new words and frases. Depending on what you upload, you can learn with audio, video, or text. There is also a spaced repetition flash card system to help you review. Unlike many apps, you can get the translation of individual frases, not just single words. You can also keep track of your progress and learning goals.
John Do
5 months ago
The app is great for immersive learning. I find myself using it more than the other apps I work with. Very entertaining way to learn. Main problem is the robot voice doesn't always pronounce words correctly and this can lead to bad habits. It's okay because in the lessons you can listen to it being spoken by real people but during the quizzes you only get the robot voice. It would be nice if they had an option to snip the audio from the real voices for the tests.
fizzy tastic
5 months ago
very stingy with free / trial users. when the notification said non-subscription users get 20 words, I thought it meant 20 A DAY. but it is indeed just 20, period. nothing wrong with the app itself, in fact it seems pretty handy. but satori reader does something similar and for free, so I'll use that instead. I just can't justify 10$ a month when everything is so expensive lately. I wish more apps would at least offer a lifetime subscription.
Eric Michel
2 months ago
Absolutely amazing app and system. Recommending to everyone that I know who is interested in language learning. One request though. Please remove the notifications about stars that pop up while I'm reading/listening to a text. The are completely in the way on my phone. Disabled notifications while I'm listening.
Evan Eells
4 months ago
I thought I'd be leaving a much better Review, but they do not treat all languages with the same degree of care and attention. For instance they identify words incorrectly for several languages (like they just completely fail on Vietnamese). I would recommend finding a language learning app or study system tailored to your specific Target language.
David Thoreau
4 months ago
The app is pretty good, but the streak thing is annoying. I use other tools to study in addition to this, and I don't like feeling compelled to log in and do a few minutes in the app to "keep the streak going." I would rather be able notate that I worked on something, or disable it altogether. I can spend a couple hours watching shows in my target language while taking notes and looking up words, but the app doesn't know that. It's just annoying and it can be discouraging.
Corinne Standish
2 months ago
The worst part about this course is they make it nearly impossible to cancel the autorenew that you probably inadvertently signed up for. I sent an email to LingQs customer service saying they do not have my authorization to automatically renew my subscription. I hope it works because the plan is expensive.
Iri Wen
2 months ago
def worth paying for - great for heritage speakers of Chinese to learn both Chinese culture and words- it's like having someone read to you (I enjoyed this a lot more than having my parents teach me Chinese) I would like it if they had more interesting lessons. not sure if I will keep paying for this once I finish all the "slow Chinese podcast" lessons
Azurmalachite
1 month ago
I started using this after Duolingo and this taught me more in ~6 months than Duolingo did in 3 years. By giving you short stories and news articles instead of a planned curriculum it teaches you the most common words (pronouns, prepositions, etc.) first which allows you to form sentences of your own much quicker. I really wish they had Celtic languages, though. I'd love to learn Irish or Welsh. Overall I would totally recommend this app.
Alex Halloran
1 month ago
Very useful for organizing content with the ability to import. For some reason they eliminated the ability to log speaking hours on mobile and made it more difficult on the desktop version as well. A bit pricey for what it is so I wish there was a lifetime license for all languages.
Lawrence Abbott
1 month ago
I really like LingQ, my only critique is how messy the unknown and known vocabulary gets, for Japanese. you have some particles and things labeled as words that aren't actual words. some better characterized into sentences to understand. It all seems auto generated, maybe not. But also I want to see different colors from unknown to known, the orange fade is almost unrecognizable and so I don't use that feature at all. Overall I truly appreciate the app for consolidating so much content! Worth it
FranG1214
2 weeks ago
My favorite app for language learning, and I've used a few. The app works very well for reading and listening practice. A minor criticism is that the user interface could be a bit more user friendly, especially when playing videos while simultaneously trying to follow along by reading the transcript.
Martin Horeth
1 week ago
it's generally great. the only reason I didn't give it a 5 was because of the text-to-speech and some of the readings being off (doing Japanese, so maybe the TTS just reads the kanji without considering context). I like Satori Reader better in that regard. The reason I'll use this in tandem with Satori Reader is because the New Word percentage for new articles is really useful for gauging how ready you are for an article.
StaceyyyAyyy
1 week ago
Whoa! I'm super impressed with their Russian lessons! They even note how the nouns change depending on how they're used in a sentence, otherwise known as cases. I'm letting my 1200 day+ streak die in Duolingo (a truly awful, lazy, and greedy app) and using LingQ instead. I've completed the Latin, Russian, and Japanese courses in Duolingo so I can say LingQ SOOOO much better! I'm very curious to see how they handle Japanese now. I can tell the devs really love linguistics, so thanks for this app!
