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Lingvist — Take your language skills to the next level
Lingvist uses machine learning to adapt to you based on what you know and to level-up your language learning power with trackable progress. Try it today and boost your knowledge! Learn French, Spanish, German, Russian – or English from one of 12 different languages.
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Tyler Rollins
Great simple way to learn languages. What is your opinion on the virtual immersion approach? E.g photos of situations rather than words in the native language.
Look forward to practicing my French with this!
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@tycrollins Thanks, Tyler! I think everyone should use techniques that work best for them. But virtual immersion without any support structure is maybe spreading it too thin. Photos help learn a handful of words, but as soon as you get to more complex stuff, abstract words and ideas, photos won't cut it anymore. A good command of language requires a lot of abstract, nuanced vocabulary.
This is a pretty great interface. Lots of ways to learn. Like how it's not restricted to lessons, you just jump right in, learning at your own pace. You come back to the site and right away there's something you can learn. Plus there are lots of reading and listening exercises.
You've got my vote if you're working on Chinese :P Looks like a slick tool to learn a new language :)
Hey there Product Hunt!
I started Lingvist while I was working on the Higgs team at CERN. I had tried all sorts of ways to learn French - online and offline and everything was too slow. So I designed an adaptive algorithm to help myself learn French. It worked. After 200 hours of study, I went back and took the Estonian school exam in French and passed it. After that, I realised this was a huge opportunity and that's where the company started. We came through Techstars in London last year and are now releasing new languages, announcing some new EU funding and launching our mobile apps for iOS and Android to make our mission of making language learning faster even more accessible for people!
Would love to hear what you think, thanks :)
Hey Igor. You can start learning English with Lingvist by going to the main Menu of the app, click on the flag icons and then add a new language. There you can select to learn English from either French or Russian. Good luck!
@eriktorenberg His principles - effectiveness, adherence, and efficiency are very well aligned with Lingvist.
Our vision is to build a product that will use personal interest for adherence and generate learning priorities based on that.
It's very close to Tim Ferriss's approach. The only difference is that he has an approach, but we're making it a full product to help people to follow this approach. Especially the last principle - efficiency! The fully adaptive algorithms are used in Lingvist to make learning personnally effective.
@mait_muntel Interesting. It seems like your product depends a lot on rote memorization though? What are the primaries methods of teaching? [Also, sidenote: please release the spanish version ASAP]
To follow up with good news, we are also proud and delighted to announce €1.6m in EU funding to help scale our product and offer more languages sets to our users!
@mait_muntel Thanks for creating Lingvist - a great product! I know you hail from Estonia - any chance that this funding will be used for an English -> Estonian version to allow ever more people to learn this fascinating Uralic language beautifully? Aitäh!
@martinmcgloin Tere, Martin! English > Estonian version is obviously close to our own hearts. We'd love to do it at some point!
@mait_muntel This is a great tool to brush up on my French! It is so frictionless! What other languages are in your sights? Any roadmap and if not do you have anything like a blog so one can keep up with what the company is up to?
This is unreal, so intuitive.. the design is immense. Finally a product that can keep me engaged enough to learn a language!
My partner will love this too, can't wait to get the spanish/swedish languages on there.
Is this just French? I hate having to register for products and input my email address before even being able to ascertain what the language options are...
Love the mindset behind the app! First prompts more or less force you to make 'mistakes' to dismiss this pass/fail learning bias we all have in learning. Will definitely be using along with the Michel Thomas method. Thanks for sharing!
The tagline "Learn a language in 200 hours" was great. Made me feel like I could do it.
Can't wait until its "Learn any language in 200 hours"
I'll definitely give it a try.
This is incredible! I'll be on the edge of my seat waiting for more languages to come to this platform!
I'm getting "Uncaught ReferenceError: $window is not defined" in my console when I try to sign up to be notified when Japanese language is available. :(
Otherwise awesome site, really interested in trying it out for Japanese (or German) when you get to adding it.
@mazlix Bug indeed! Fixed now, so please do leave your e-mail and we'll let you know.
I'm a big fan of Lingvist - I love the UX and overall experience - a beautifully satisfying way to learn a language.
really like this...easy and self scales to your current language ability (in french anyway- spanish would be a big plus as noted in the comment string- coming!). have only taken it so far through the initial quiz and scaling test...anxious to see the vocabulary etc. as it is calibrated for my current level.
I'm disappointed that people keep building apps that are really boring, translation and grammar based. As an educator and linguist, beyond the absolute beginner level, these don't reflect the way people "acquire" a language nor become fluent. (unless you consider passing a grammar based written test being fluent in a language. Stephen Krashen an eminent SL (second language) linguist has a great article on The Right and Wrong Ways to Learn A Language. https://www.washingtonpost.com/b...
To learn a language, you need strong messages you want to hear in the form of comprehensible (understandable input) over time. L = Ci * T It's all about learning through messages you want to hear. Sure, 5% of us our motivated to learn with boring dry, text passages. But that's not a universal solution.
I've tested the "learn english from french" part, this application is really great for learning vocabulary.
Pros:The learning method
Cons:Maybe there is not enough training for the grammar
@alexvinogradov4 it's on the roadmap - we're still in beta, so adding new languages all the time. watch this space!
