uTalk - Learn 150+ Languages

First, the customer service of Utalk is extremely excellent and unmatched. They respond immediately without any delay. I encountered a problem with the application on my iPhone where I couldn't download some items or features from within. However, when I tried it on my laptop, it worked efficiently and without any issues. I kindly request the application developer to fix this issue. I don't know if the issue is widespread or just specific to me, as I contacted customer service and informed them about the problem. They asked me to reinstall the application, and I did so, but unfortunately, the problem was not resolved. In general, the application is very excellent when I use it on my laptop, but I want to use it on my iPhone freely and without any restrictions. Thank you to the application developer.

Maybe it is missing in the free version but I haven’t found any sort of translation of the words in the game. I didn’t want to use my microphone so that automatically cuts out two games which isn’t a big deal. The games just start speaking the other language and use images and you’re supposed to figure it out I guess. One game assumes you’ve already heard the words and so you know which image to select… which if you’re a beginner literally does nothing to help you learn the word, you probably get frustrated and forget what the word was originally because the app yells NO at you in the language you’re learning. i get what they’re going for and in theory it seems like a good idea. But here is the huge issue with these language apps that do “immersion learning” : How am I supposed to know a word based on an image? If I see a picture of a man giving me the thumbs up how do I know if the word means man, or yes, or agree, or something else similar? There’s no way to look. Up the words after so I have no idea. I think maybe one game actually spelled it out so you could maybe write that down and look it up but that’s so much extra work that other apps already do for you so you can actually focus on learning instead of working.

I love being able to explore so many languages. And in the school where I teach the main languages are spanish, vietnamese, somali, oromo, amheric, tagalog, punjabi, samoan and more. This is the only app I could find which gives access to learn basic phrases in all of them (add quiche and kosrae please). You won’t learn a language on this app, there’s no development or explanation, it is a phrasebook only. But to that end it’s great. I used it traveling in Albania and Bosnia and it really helped. The native voices differentiating for male and female is nice, The games are good practice without being boring, though the memory game is unnecessarily hard. There’s speaking practice too. My frustration is that I only really want to learn a few phrases in a topic. I do want to ask how they are and say happy birthday, etc, but I don’t have interest in asking them where the atm is or whether I should boil the water. But to do the practice games I have to learn all. With a subscription you can make your own phrasebook, but you can’t test yourself on it. And if you don’t buy the subscription you won’t know which phrases are in a topic so you can only guess if they’re useful. But overall I’ve really loved it for what it is and it will continue to be a go-to app for me.