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What's a good language learning app or method? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by zell@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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I'd like to learn Mandarin and also have interest learning Russian, Arabic and Spanish, but don't really know where to start. I know apps like Duolingo and Mango exist, but are those the best options? Would I be best off taking a class? To my multi-lingual comrades, where should I start?

Edit: Thanks for all the great replies everyone! I have a lot of resources to look into now.

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[–] Iron_Feliks@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I bought the Pimsleur polish course and it works really well, it uses a scientifically proven method developed by a professional linguist. Only problem is it costs about $50 per course.

[–] Cricket@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

I came here to mention Pimsleur as a good option too. You can get them as audio books through sites like Audible for much less than that, but I don't know if it's the same amount of modules per course as if you get it directly from Pimsleur.

I've seen people recommend Michel Thomas' products too, and have seen others compare Paul Noble's audiobooks positively to those. I've tried both and find them a pretty interesting approach.

This one was also recommended by someone on Lemmy a few weeks back: https://www.languagetransfer.org/ - I don't know anything about it other than that (and that it's free?)