Promova alternatives

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1. [R1] Promova 1/5 · US Promising start but course is super short and worthless: I liked the program and decided to subscribe. Imagine my dissatisfaction when I found out the whole Japanese course was about one week worth of learning. There is nothing beyond that. And advertised AI mode is not available by the way. So definitely false advertisement
2. [R13] Promova 2/5 · US Confused or False advertising?: I downloaded the app for Korean. It shows you the dialogue on the ad but when you do the modules, you don’t see the dialogue or text practices. I am somewhere past beginner level and just about intermediate, but the app is limited to what they say “intermediate” but I would say it’s pretty beginner level vocabulary and grammar. At least advertise what you offer just
3. [R3] Promova 3/5 · US Arabic Is Worthless: The Arabic lessons have tons of bugs in them. Functionality is a pain. Beyond that the grammar and vocabulary is a bit off. I have friends who speak Arabic and they looked and told me to not waste my time.
4. [R6] Promova 3/5 · US Poor AI: I’ve studied French extensively, including with four native speakers. The AI in this app is very poor. I speak clearly with a good French accent according to all of my teachers but the AI misunderstood me multiple times. I’m canceling my trial subscription.
5. [R10] Promova 2/5 · US Can’t understand me: When I speak in Spanish the app takes the words I say if there is an English equivalent and puts that instead. For example, I said “si” so they wrote “see”. There is no way to fix what you say in the chat when AI gets it wrong. Super frustrating. Also why are we talking about soccer? Is it because of the World Cup? If I didn’t already know about soccer in English I would hav
6. [R22] Promova 1/5 · US Misleading Charges: There’s supposed to be a 7-day free trial before the actual subscription, yet I got charged directly and could not get a refund.
7. [R25] Promova 1/5 · US Scam: Just another stupid language app that asks you 1 million questions about your goals and then ask for your credit card before you can even see how the platform works
8. [R27] Promova 3/5 · US Espantosa!: Es una trampa! Todo cobran, no te dejan avanzar, es un verdadero robo! NO LA RECOMIENDO.
9. [R31] Promova 1/5 · US 7 day free trial: They charge you day one then you can’t cancel
10. [R15] Promova 3/5 · US Too many figures of speech: I told them I was using it for travel and I Don’t think learning superstitions and sayings will help me.
11. [R28] Promova 1/5 · US These lessons make no sense: I’ve been using Duolingo to learn French for a while, but thought I’d check this out to improve my speech. I’m intermediate level, but the first “lesson” assumed I was advanced because I didn’t understand any of it. So I chose Beginner level to see how it would proceed, and the first “lesson” drilled me on a bunch of soccer/football equipment and terminology. I doubt t
12. [R34] Promova 1/5 · US Terrible format: A beginner French lesson expects you to know vocabulary for a football (soccer) match.
13. [R37] Promova 2/5 · US Made no sense!: So started teaching me in a way I liked except I started learning soccer terms… which likely won’t help me in France and after feeling good about the few French soccer words AI chats starts asking me about the weather in the lesson. In full sentences using none of the vocabulary it taught me in the first lesson and wanting me to respond in French sentences. Super weird. I will canc
14. [R8] Promova 4/5 · US Great app: I do think the “Say it with shadowing lessons would be better if you had to speak into the microphone, that way you could get feedback.
15. [R12] Promova 3/5 · US More interaction: So far I’m only studying grammar. I’d expect AI conversation exercises and grammar activities
16. [R14] Promova 4/5 · US Getting there: I love the operation and general feeling of this app. I wish it had a review and speaking features.
17. [R24] Promova 3/5 · US Interactions: I prefer more interactive conversations with a real IAPerson with open questions and open responses and then he correct me
18. [R51] Duolingo 2/5 · US Not fun: When I’m learning the words for a language it just shows you the word and you have to pick from 4 English words and expects you to just know it and you can get it wrong which in my opinion it makes it not fun. Also the words go by so fast and I used to get so many notifications saying I need to redo my streak because I lost it and it got so annoying I had to turn the notifications off, so
19. [R52] Duolingo 5/5 · US Increasing your intellect: This app is helping me learn Spanish
20. [R54] Duolingo 1/5 · US A once incredible idea that was monetized into ad-filled unrewarding garbage.: There has never been an update that has improved this app. Every single change just makes it harder and harder to want to keep using considering how hard they try to game you for your money. It used to be great.
21. [R55] Duolingo 5/5 · US So useful and helpful: I’ve been learning German and there’s a lot of things to help you. There’s the lessons and then there’s the speed game or whatever and I love all like the prizes you can get with the gems. I currently am using the free trial of super Duolingo and it helps so much. I’ve been begging my mom for it. This is your sign to go on Duolingo and learn more of your culture just like I
22. [R65] Babbel 1/5 · US Languages: No other languages are provided other than a short amount, really disappointing seeing as I really wanted to learn Korean
23. [R66] Babbel 5/5 · US love this program: love this program is helping me so much with the step by step way of learning
24. [R67] Babbel 3/5 · US Let’s you pass but you shouldn’t: I want to learn but if you keep pressing continue you advance without actually learning. It rewards completion and not competency. Some languages I don’t care to write, so there should be a way to select what you want to get out of a language to go through it.
25. [R68] Babbel 1/5 · US Pictures have very little correspondence to word or phrases. Will charge you yearly without notice: The current PICTs are useless for expressing what is being taught. Zero refund once charged! I don’t recommend this company. No human to talk to also!!
26. [R79] Speak & Learn English 2/5 · US Excelente: Excelente
27. [R80] Speak & Learn English 5/5 · US Maritza: Maritza
28. [R81] Speak & Learn English 3/5 · US Aprendiendo inglés: Jeany
29. [R82] Speak & Learn English 1/5 · US Mentira: No es gratis cómo dicen tantos comerciales
30. [R93] Memrise Easy Language Learning 1/5 · US Horrible Customer Service: A few years ago I paid for the lifetime upgrade and since then I had to buy a new phone. Well guess what? The lifetime membership did not transfer. I emailed customer service about and they asked me if I still had the receipt EVEN THOUGH THEY COULD SEE IT ON THEIR END THAT I HAD PURCHASED IT. And of course I don’t have a receipt for something that I paid for over FIVE ye
31. [R94] Memrise Easy Language Learning 5/5 · US They have Chawcktow!!!: ❤️
32. [R95] Memrise Easy Language Learning 3/5 · US Stuck: I think it’s got a bug because I keep going over the same ol’ lessons. It might be because I had to upgrade phones.
33. [R96] Memrise Easy Language Learning 2/5 · US Soulless robots and AI. Used to be better.: I used to spend hours and hours on Memrise, about a decade ago. I used it again a few years ago to study a language. Now Memrise is all about promoting its AI robots, which either are costing them tons and environmentally damaging, or are oft-used practice convos that aren’t really AI but they’re that terrible at branding it. This alone would be a dealbr
34. [R107] EWA 1/5 · US DO NOT RISK SUBSCRIBING: DO NOT subscribe. This subscription CANNOT BE CANCELED and they DO NOT RESPOND TO EMAILS. They will keep taking your money indefinitely. NOT WORTH THE RISK.
35. [R108] EWA 5/5 · US Jefe Rojo: Interesting funny story but a little difficult for a beginner student!
36. [R109] EWA 3/5 · US ): It is not possible to use the full service. To perform tasks and lessons where required, the microphone does not work. Constantly writes "speech recognition services are temporarily unavailable"
37. [R110] EWA 1/5 · US Dangerous: It's very difficult to cancel the subscription; I was forced to change my credit card to finally get rid of the intrusive subscription fee. I do not recommend it!!!! · translated
38. [R39] Promova 3/5 · GB Questionable practices: I was signing up for 7 days free trial. When I checked my phone subscriptions it said 3 days free trial. I am happy I double checked and avoided a surprise. Shady... Application does not offer anything special.
39. [R33] Promova 3/5 · GB Promova.. AI interface?: The app looks ok but there were 2 things I didn’t like: 1. The images used look sometimes look like it’s made for kids ( Easter Bunny ….?) 2. The AI isn’t available yet and the limited AI conversations available are not good, the response time is way too long Needs development..