Transparent Language Online

The thing I missed most about university: language classes. I appreciated Babbel for my own use, as someone who has facility in picking up languages. Babbel has its benefits in helping with acquisition of phonics and some vocabulary; I don’t perceive it as having much value as a resource for my kids in studying languages I don’t already speak. Transparent Language, on the other hand, has been a treat all around. I’m enjoying the systematic lessons in Spanish, which I’ve recently taken an interest in. And my kid and I are having a good time with both Irish and Spanish, working through them each at a similar pace. The exercises matching written words and sound recordings strike me as especially useful. Fun so far!

I’m only on day three but everything just feels so much more logical. I joined with my library card, and to think the previous platform wanted over $100 a year, claiming it could be split between six people, but if I’m sharing an app with somebody I don’t expect them to pay me for it. My sister was kind enough to offer but neither one of us really enjoyed it and absolutely hated the pressure of the duo practically fainting when I was just in there two hours ago. Nobody needs that kind of pressure when they’re not even actually in the app. This feels more like a Spanish class, and I am grateful to the developers.

Recently switched over from Duolingo due to its new AI First approach. Even besides that it had other issues. My dad downloaded Transparent for me, and I have to say, this app is so much better than Duo in so many ways. I’m actually genuinely motivated and excited to get on Transparent each day. I love the pronunciation practice exercises (learning Italian, gotta work on rolling those ‘r’s haha) and even though it doesn’t have a colourful game-y UI, I’ve had more fun on this than I ever did on Duolingo! Also, the fact that there is an ASL course is so exciting for me!!!! I’ve wanted to learn ASL for almost my entire memorable life, but never really had a way to do so, and now I do!! Overall, amazing app, and it’s cool that you can connect it to your library card.