YuSpeak: Learn Japanese/Korean

I am learning Japanese, but I’m sure my review applies to people studying Korean as well! Everything from the videos of native speakers to the questions and dialogues are very useful and have real world uses. It’s set up so you can master conversational basics quickly if you’re planning a trip in the near future. My favorite feature has to be the audio review feature, instead of listening to a podcast in the car or with your AirPods on around the house, you can review words and grammar/sentences you’ve already covered. On other apps (like the one with the bird) I felt like it was playing a game and after months felt like I didn’t learn much. YuSpeak is definitely better and different from all the other apps, because YuSpeak actually helps familiarize the user to hearing the language spoken and to understand it in order to respond back confidently and correctly. It starts you off easy with simple sentences but the progression in difficulty is natural and not overwhelming, plus it keeps reinforcing the topics you already covered while teaching you new ones. I highly recommend downloading YuSpeak, it has a wealth of knowledge at your fingertips for learning Japanese and resources such as stories to read based on language level and as I mentioned before hands free audio reviews of the material you’ve already covered.

I am learning Korean and Japanese together. This is the only app that has helped me to learn and remember well all the Japanese Kana and Korean alphabets in 40 days. The creator is a very clever teacher. I am on my 60-hour study, just passed the 100day mark. I supplement my study with 2 extra workbooks for each language. For JPN & KRN, I need to prioritize writing out all sentences of each lesson repeatedly each day. You need to write more, otherwise it is sort of useless if I cannot read signs and notices in the country. I spend at least an hour a day in writing, which was not mentioned on any teaching channel. I love the Yu speak “learned already” tab. You can press the words with the audio playing out while you repeatedly writing the sentences on your notebook. Just so clever to have audio replaying with each press, on the “practice” section. The world needs to know this is the only app to learn JPN and KRN. Haha…. I hope the creator can push out the story app sooner, we need to read and repeat good storylines and short audio stories for adults in order to anchor our fragile retention at this stage. YuSpeak needs more online presence, more people so desperately …. needing to know how to start right in Asian language learning. I highly recommend YuSpeak. After 120 days a new habit is formed.

I got this app to learn Japanese and I really like the way it teaches so I was glad I found it but, after 16 lessons (including 6 for just the alphabets) you have to pay a subscription. Personally, I don’t have any money that I could use for this subscription so I was bummed until I found out if you save up enough coins you can buy a temporary subscription. I really wanted to keep using the app so, I did just that, I saved the required 180 coins for a 3-day subscription. It took a while because I could only get about 6 coins a day (I don’t know if there was a more efficient way) which I mostly get because I know running an app can be really expensive. I got through a fair amount of lesson in that 3 day period but didn’t retain a lot of information because it takes a while before something to sticks in my brain. I thought that I could just keep reviewing those lesson while saving up more coins to get another subscription, but you can’t. After the subscription period ends, you have absolutely no access to the lessons you did, you can’t replay them and you don’t have access to just the singular words for review. Like I said, I get running an app can be expensive but I’d rather just have ads if anything that way those who can pay can have an ad-free experience and those who can’t pay can still learn. Or, at the very least, still have access to lessons unlocked during a premium period.