2020-05-07
For Beginners and Up!
If you are an absolute beginner, it will be frustrating at first. Maybe finish a few beginner lessons on a free app. Then, jump right into LingQ. Buy a month and give it an honest effort. It is so worth it.
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LingQ | Learn 42 Languages
Released: 2010-07-01
© 2020 The Linguist Institute, Ltd. All rights reserved.
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#73 in Top Grossing Apps > Education
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Description
1000s of lessons with audio + matching text. Learn words and phrases with SRS Review! Import and learn from anything on the web!
Start with easy beginner lessons but quickly progress into learning from real, compelling content. 1000s of hours of lessons, podcasts, audiobooks, interviews and more, all with transcript. LingQ even lets you import and learn from any content you find on the web! Start your language journey today!
Listen and follow along in the text. Look up and save new words and phrases to your personal database. Track which words you know and which words are new to you. Watch your vocabulary and your avatar grow! Track all your learning activities including listening time, words of reading and more.
Review and learn your new vocabulary in context and using our proprietary SRS review tools. Register your account and have your data synced to our web application so you can study on the web along with on multiple devices. The LingQ app also lets you work offline and syncs up when you get back online. This lets you take advantage of dead time and short breaks throughout the day to spend more time with your new language.
No other app will take you as far. LingQ will take you all the way to fluency!
Features:
* 1000s of hours of downloadable audio files all with transcript
* Look up and save new vocabulary using multiple integrated dictionary resources
* Review vocabulary using SRS review system
* Track how many words you know, which words are new & which you are learning
* Keep all your learning statistics including listening and reading time
* Use Playlist to easily play and shuffle all your current lessons
* Sync word data, playlist data and lesson data to the web and across devices
* Study offline and update data when back online
*Receive notifications for all LingQ activities from web or mobile including forum and exchange activities from the web
* Manage all your saved vocabulary
* See your learning targets and measure your progress
* Watch your avatar grow as your language grows
“Built by language learners for language learners!”
LingQ Co-Founder, Steve Kaufmann, one of the world’s leading polyglots, has learned 15 languages using this approach. Steve is the “Godfather of language learning”
ACCELERATE YOUR LEARNING WITH LINGQ PREMIUM
• Unlimited LingQs - Look up & save all new words and phrases
• Word Tracking - Track known words, new words
• Unlimited Vocab Review (SRS)
• Unlimited Imports - Import & study text from the web
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Feedback? Let us know.
Send suggestions and feedback to apps@lingq.com.
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NOTE:
You will need a Premium subscription to get full unlimited access to LingQ functionality.
LingQ Premium
1-month subscription $12.99
6-month subscription $71.99
12-month subscription $107.99
Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at the end of your free trial period. Your subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period/trial. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and will continue at the price listed above. You may manage your subscription and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to Settings.app -> iTunes & App Store -> Apple ID. Any unused portion of your free trial will be forfeited if you purchase a subscription
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What's New in Version 4.8.12
LingQ 4.8.12
- Fix lesson text layout on iOS 14
LingQ 4.8.11
- Apple will always show actual goal regardless of fire status
- Fix playlist back button
- Fix for TTS names on iOS 14
- Bug fixes and performance improvements
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Name
The Linguist Institute
Information
Developer
Categories
Version
4.8.12
Size
157.4 MB
Game Center
No
VPP Device Licensing
Yes
Rating
Rated 12+ for the following:
Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity
Compatibility
iOS 9.1 or later
Devices
iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPhone 5c, iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone SE, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone X, iPhone XR, iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max, iPhone SE (2nd generation), iPad 2 (Wi-Fi), iPad 2 (3G), iPad (3rd Generation) (Wi-Fi), iPad (3rd Generation) (4G), iPad (4th Generation) (Wi-Fi), iPad (4th Generation) (4G), iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro, iPad Pro (Cellular), iPad Pro (9.7-inch), iPad Pro (9.7-inch) (Cellular), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (10.5-inch), iPad Pro (10.5-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (11-inch), iPad Pro (11-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air, iPad Air (Cellular), iPad Air 2, iPad Air 2 (Cellular), iPad Air (3rd generation), iPad Air (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini (Wi-Fi), iPad mini (4G), iPad mini Retina, iPad mini Retina (Cellular), iPad mini 3, iPad mini 3 (Cellular), iPad mini 4, iPad mini 4 (Cellular), iPad mini (5th Generation), iPad mini (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (7th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPod touch (5th generation), iPod touch (6th Generation), iPod touch (7th generation)
Languages
English, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian
App Store: Customer Ratings
Ratings & Reviews
4.5 of 5 (264 Ratings)
App Store: Customer Reviews
2020-04-25
Great app for reading
I was struggling with watching and not grasping and this reading app is really helpful especially with the news import.
2020-04-24
hadi
I love lingQ this is very nice app for learning new words and grammar.
2020-02-05
Great app
Steve’s method of comprehensible input is amazing and something I had never thought of. The lingq app really helps with expanding , organizing and reviewing your vocabulary.
2020-01-02
Tellement compliqué et tordu comme app!
Ouaache!
2019-11-10
Good but not great
It’s an alright app for learning I find the content is limited as well as a few things that need changing which should be very simple and common sense. Over all I do enjoy the app but it is definitely not the only source you should rely on.
2019-10-18
Best way to learn French
After using a dozen of other French learning programs I find this one is the most enjoyable and effective. You just get used to listen to content you find interesting and improve your French at the same time.
2019-10-16
Best language learning app
I’ve been using LingQ for 5 years, and I still think it’s the best language learning app.
2019-08-01
The best language learning app
The best language learning app I’ve encountered so far. Amazed at he progress I’ve made on French in just two weeks compared to what was essentially zero progress made in the years I was taught it in grade school, or all the hours I spent on Duolingo.
2019-06-13
Update to Update: Get This App If You Are Serious About Language Learning
Having used LingQ for some two years I am re-upgrading my ranking. This tool is more useful and better value than any other out there. I use it ever day. I have a Lifetime Subscription for my study language, Portuguese. I believe that you get what you pay for.
Overall this is a very good app, and the concepts behind it are valuable for language learning. In terms of what offers, it is very ambitious and aims to be comprehensive.
Its core strength is enhancing reading comprehension and vocabulary acquisition. It empowers learners by getting them to chose the materials they want to read, study, and learn from.
It does have a fairly steep learning curve, and I am still getting the hang of some parts; there are parts I haven’t looked at very much. I have figured out some of the things I found puzzling, and have started using the Playlist feature, and now listen while driving.
I do think that if you are serious about language learning this is the strongest single app you can find, and it potentially can take you a long way if you are motivated and persistent. I took out a subscription to focus seriously on the one language I am most interested in
2019-04-29
Veru useful app
This app is very useful and beneficial for language learning. It makes reading and listening to language material “above your pay grade” a vastly easier and more enjoyable experience, and overall, vastly improves your efficiency for learning your target language. Wish this had been around when I was learning Arabic 15 years ago.
2019-04-27
It’s great!
It’s really fun and easy to use.
2018-08-23
The best language learning app out there
I have tried several apps for language learning and LingQ is by far the most effective. The method works and the content is interesting. Thank you!
2018-07-20
Thanks for the fixes!
The latest update fixed some big issues I was having. It functions great now and I can't wait to get back into language learning!
2018-06-04
I’m very impressed!
This apps, help me a lot for learning languages,
Tanks Steeve, I’m French Canadian and when I watch your French video on YouTube I was very impressed how your French is good!
Congratulations
2018-05-31
Great tool with some warts
Great tool for efficient learning by immersion. It took some extended experimentation to fully appreciate its value. It offers very compelling and unique functionality compared to other more popular, polished, and often overly cutesy apps. LingQ won’t immediately hook you the way an app with amazing interaction design does, but makes up for it with powerful tools and content for dedicated polyglots.
Make sure you also install the desktop browser import extension so you can review imported articles on your phone / pad.
Details:
The LingQ function forces all text to lower case. German nouns are capitalized - the app should let you preserve case.
Also, languages like German inflect nouns according to gender and grammatical case. You must learn the gender and irregular plural forms when learning a new word, or else you cannot fully integrate it into your own speech. Similarly, prepositions invoke grammatical cases, and you need to know which case that is.
Given that LingQ supports a range of thorough professional dictionaries, it has access to these important aspects of a word, but it doesn’t extract them for you. You can use the tags feature to add the details manually, but the app should automate this step. Once it’s a tag, you can check it in the app’s vocabulary review mode by tapping the edit button (an automatic progressive disclosure feature for revealing tags would be better).
The LingQ app itself has somewhat klunky interaction design, the graphic design is not stellar, and it forgets settings. Each time I log into the app, I have to reset some settings it can’t seem to remember past the current session. When exploring translations for a LingQ in one of the many dictionaries it supports, a page with a blue title bar pops up with the translation. It took me a while to figure out I could leave the page without killing the app, because the cancel button text is blue too - I found it accidentally with random taps and then realized oh, two indistinguishable shades of blue, why would you do that? As for graphic design - I don’t need an app to be cutesy, but after using apps like Duolingo, Memrise, Babbel, and Busuu, LingQ comes across a little home brewed and cluttered.
One can work around these warts but at a $10 / month subscription price, a 4.5 product should show more polish. The owner of the company should focus his energy on delivering a better product rather than trashing every competing language app, tool, software, course, and book available in his rambling videos.
I like that I can select phrases for translation, and for text-to-speech of imported articles. In fact, LingQ should offer the play audio function for imported article and invoke TTS - I can only invoke it after selection.
Example of how it helped: I knew “laut” means loud in German, but I didn’t know “laut + ” means “according to.” I struggled with a sentence from an imported news article until I selected the whole phrase for translation. Then suddenly I could grok the original sentence and experienced that magical bliss of linguistic comprehension.
2018-05-28
Lingq app
For those who love to learn languages by reading, lingq is a great resource to make it easy to read interesting material and to build up vocabulary in a desired language. It uses a great method to keep identifying unknown words and to systematically work at learning more and more of them as proficiency in the language increases.
2018-04-18
Get this app now !
This app is simply perfect ! Don’t be afraid to spend your money on it, it’s going to save you a lot time of struggling with free apps or with hundred of books. (The web version is better but it’s OK )
PS : I love the new update, it’s easier to use, and more beautiful! Thanks to all the team behind LingQ and all the courses providers !
2018-04-12
the best system I've used
Great update: I find sentence mode quite useful for the first few times through a challenging text.
Le wow! I've used many different systems and websites--all very helpful--and am now an intermediate/advanced student of french. This system is perfect for language acquisition, especially the links: words that we are learning that are highlighted in any lesson, so that we can see them again not just as an isolated word but in multiple contexts. This and the combination of text plus audio is unbeatable. Repeated listening and reading is the key to language acquisition. Add to that the act of actually speaking the language (I haven't tried their learning communities yet) and you have everything you need.
Learning a language takes time and effort. I can now converse with a francophone for hours but am continuing to learn and am just beginning Spanish with this app.
Highly recommend.
2018-02-24
Lingq app.
This app does not provide complete information which exists by opening lingq through the internet
2018-01-15
Great resource!
Uses a method based on legitimate linguistics research. Not a gimmick. You will benefit from watching Steve Kaufmann’s YT videos to get background. Interface is not that intuitive but improving. The web version easier to use. If you are serious about language acquisition you should try this.
2017-12-29
Do not get this App
This App is very difficult to use. It is not intuitive or user friendly. But the absolute worst part, is that cancelling the App is extremely difficult! After figuring out how to cancel and canceling before the 1 week trial was up , they still charged me! I’m extremely upset! This is exactly how people get used and abused! This App should be shut down. It is fraudulent!
2017-08-30
Best ever
Obviously Steve has spent decades learning languages and it shows! He's built the learning system that most closely fits how my brain functions and my lifestyle. Kudos to a lifetime of hard work.
2017-04-01
A delight - a big improvement
A powerful app whether on my iPad or on my iPhone. A great way to read in another language, to listen, and to learn words and phrases, and to prepare to speak.Very pleasant even addictive.
2017-01-01
Brian
Great program for learning languages. It's helpful and you can learn French, German, Russian, and Japanese to name a few. Highly recommended!
2015-12-09
Review
I find it difficult to use not so simple
2015-11-05
Great app for learning Italian
I've been using this app for the last few months and it's awesome! I've learned a ton of Italian. Syncs up my lessons from my phone to my iPad to the web and it's always with me. Grazie LingQ!
2015-06-27
Optional romanization please
This is a useful tool, but putting in romanized versions of words underneath Asian characters on the flash cards was an awful idea. Please at least add a way to turn them off. It's basically like having the answer in plain view the moment the flashcard shows up. I literally have to try and cover up that part of the screen with my hand if I want to learn anything.
2015-03-26
Very buggy and unusable
I love LingQ and the method they use! I use the website all the time to learn German.
But their mobile app is not very good:
- words in flashcards get cut off so you can't read them.
- The app logs you out every few days or weeks.
- the latest update doesn't load any of my courses at all!
- if you click the "listen" button in flashcards mode, you sometimes accidentally reveal the answer. The button is too small.
- The app is very slow to load. Interacting with words doesn't refresh very quickly.
2015-03-19
Ok when online
App is great supplement to the web courses. However, after previous update app won't load any courses.
2014-10-12
Each new version is buggier than the previoys
Quality control on this apllication seems non-existant. The software developers should get some training in quality control!!! I am scared to do updates, for fear that that each new verdion breaks things that used to work. Too bad, because the concept is great!
2014-10-06
Needs work
The first time I used this app it was fine. The second time, I couldn't even tell if it was open. Deleted. There are enough fine language-learning apps out there that you don't have to put up with sub-standard products.
2014-07-20
Not very satisfying
I downloaded this app because the internet version wouldn't let me edit writing for exchange requests on my phone. But the app doesn't even have the exchange. It also doesn't have cloze tests, which are my favourite way of learning vocabulary, or multiple choice tests. In the lessons, I had a problem as well - there seemed to be no way to mark a word as known. I am very disappointed and will be deleting this app.
2014-04-08
Unreliable
This is good tool to learn a new language but the app and the website are disaster. They are both unreliable and have so many glitches. All my lessons are gone!
2013-11-14
Great app for language learning
This app is a fantastic tool for language learning. It allows to build up your vobabulary and your comprehension through reading and listening to all kinds of texts.
2013-07-05
Not good
It's hard to understand as well as flash cards/review doesn't work.
2013-01-15
Crashing app
Crashing all the times
2013-01-15
Crash
I dont know if its the new update but I can't even open the application. Please fix it. I just registered to your online course and would enjoy using this app.
2013-01-15
Lingq
It dosen't work i open the apps And it close.;(
2013-01-10
New update
I got the new update and now The app crashes on my every time I open it
2012-11-09
Great start, needs a few tweaks to make it even better!
I love using this app.
One wonderful thing is that it automatically adds your lessons on the phone once you have added them to your library.
The play lists are also great so you can listen for a long time without having to navigate.
There is room for improvement though.
1. I would like to pause the audio from the locked iPhone screen by double clicking the home key. Right now, I double click, the phone recognizes that it is playing an iLingq audio, however the pause key does not work.
2. I'd like to highlight words I don't understand in the txt. Not necessarily look them up, but at least mark them so I can look them up and creat Lingqs in the future. If we could creat the Lingqs , that would be even better, however small improvements here would be appreciated!
3. Finally, I'd like to create play lists more easily. Either on the website and download to the phone, or by marking multiple lessons at a time to add to a play list!
Thank you for your hard work!
2012-03-05
works well!
All the flash cards and lessons work well. So convenient to have!
2011-11-13
Not good
Doesn't work. Hard to understand. Not a good program
2011-11-11
ilingq
Great app ..
2011-11-08
Its okay
Doesn't work very well