Language Learning: Pingo AI

While parts of the learning experience are helpful, others are just frustrating and broken. When trying to practice vocab words, the ai listening tool just does not work. I understand that my accent is not perfect and its a gargantuan task for an ai agent to be able to pick up the nuances in speech - especially in a language as phonetically complicated as Arabic, but thats what they are selling and thats what I payed 100 dollars for. Plus I know I am saying it correctly, It will be picking up german, dutch, Korean, and whatever other language when I am just trying to say a simple 3 Arabic words. And after I give up and hit the try again button, I listen to the recording of my audio and the recording of the answer, and find I was saying it correctly 15 times in a row. Mind you my father is fluent in Arabic and he gave me the green light in my pronunciation. Why is it even able to interpret my speech as anything other than English or Arabic when thats the only languages I will be using? Maybe helpful for other languages but I am dissatisfied with my money spent.

I reeeeeaaaally liked this app! I enjoyed being able to pick the conversation and get practice talking about things that I would actually want to talk about in real conversations that are very niche and not taught quickly in other language apps… however, I paid for 1 month wanting to give it a try but just didn’t end up using it as much as I wanted to. I didn’t mind paying for that first month as a trial but then I got charged for a second month and I feel silly but I really couldn’t find where to cancel my subscription. (I realize now that you cancel within the App Store but it really irked me that you couldn’t easily find details on how to cancel your subscription in the actual app) This may be common knowledge to other people who have subscriptions but I was surprised on the lack of info in-app. So, I sent an email to their support email last month regarding my cancellation and I still have yet to get a reply. I just got charged for the third month, so my complaint is that I couldn’t easily find out how to cancel my subscription and didn’t receive any help regarding it. Otherwise, I really truly liked the app 🙃

Only rating it this high so people can see it. This app actually seems very useful and a good use of AI. However, you can only do one lesson with this app which I think is a major downside. A lot of people want to learn languages right now either because they’re traveling or they’re going to school somewhere and it’s very difficult and nearly impossible to do that when everything has a paywall in order for you to learn. if I have any recommendations for this app, I’d say do one lesson than a day similar TUIEDA. And then, if the person wants to practice more during that day, they can pay premium. Another nice thing would be to allow the user to constantly practice the vocal words and not just allow them to practice once and then remove everything from saved vocab. It kind of defeats the purpose of having saved vocab if you’re just gonna get rid of it. Once Steve practiced it.