AlexMordred

I have started and quit Duolingo 2-3 times. Their weird and kinda useless sentences put me off. Also it takes them forever to add new courses. Although it is addictive, I don't consider it a great tool and think you can do way better with other tools and methods. For me it feels like Duolingo is for when you are too lazy to do the real study. Memrise is only good for acquiring vocabulary. I like to make my own flashcards with the words I encountered myself and with the translations I've checked in a few dictionaries to be more sure, so I use Anki instead. Didn't have chance to try buusuu too much, since it requires payment after first lesson. Take a look at fluentU. I love learning new vocab and training overall language comprehension with videos with subtitles in the target language and that's exactly what this website is good for. For some languages it's really hard or nearly impossible to find videos with subtitles in the language. The downside is it doesn't support that many languages and you can't watch many videos for free Also take a look at Learning With Texts. It's a free tool where you can add any text in any language and look up words as you read, add them to your vocab and them into Anki format.

I've already added over 500 translations in the Russian<->English language pair, check it out if you're learning Russian https://uphrasebook.com/en/translations/ru/en/latest/0

Try Finnish (or other languages of that group) if you want something challenging and really different. I really love how the language sounds Take a look at Slavic languages as well.

Hey everyone. I've been working on a website for language learners and travelers and would like to share it here. It is called UPhrasebook. The video would explain it better. Why I've decided to make something like this? Many successful language learners say it is better to learn phrases instead of single words. I didn't find anything quite like this online. Forvo is great for checking pronunciation. Although, this is the only thing it is good for. Plus it mostly works with single words. Google Translate and other machine translators often make awful translations and have artificial voices with weird intonations to voice out the words. The phrases you find in printed phrasebooks and online often don't have any explanations and might be weird and unnatural. At the moment there's still a lot of work to be done, but the core functionality is ready. I've already opened the registration for the public and would like to invite everyone to register and make some translations and record pronunciations to share your language knowledge with others. I've already done some translations myself (mostly from Russian, so check it out if you're learning Russian). Would love to get some feedback and suggestions as well.