Postby Xmmm » Tue Jan 24, 2017 9:54 pm
I was pretty excited about lingvist when it first came out in French. I learned the 4976 words with flash cards, worked my way up to 40 page chunks of French novels and 3 minute chunks of French radio interviews. The only problem was that French wasn't a language I really wanted to learn or maintain. I did the French only because I thought lingvist was cool. I kept waiting for something other than French to be rolled out.
Now ... two years (!!!) later ... a couple more languages have come out with flashcards only, and the read/listen sections for them are going to be released ... whenever.
I don't know about these guys. If you go to their facebook page, they go to a lot of parties, receive a lot of awards, and shake hands with the president of Estonia every three weeks. But the app hasn't changed much in two years (and to the extent that it has changed, seems to be in the way of getting worse).
So in theory I would say lingvist is potentially a one stop shop to catapult you from zero to the intermediate level for receptive skills. But in practice the execution is not happening. Unless they have one hundred years worth of start up capital they will never even get FIGS + CJK + Russian rolled out.
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