What's a good language learning app for friends to use together, apart?
November 30, 2021 11:49 AM   Subscribe

I'm looking for a language learning app that would be fun to use with friends who are far away. I'm not sure exactly what kind of features I'm looking for. I guess something with a social aspect where we can see each other's progress and encourage each other?

I saw that Duolingo used to have a Clubs feature that might've been interesting.

Memrise has a Groups feature but only on the web app.

A lot of apps have leaderboards, but I'm not sure if that would be so fun on its own? I'm not interested in competing with my friends, anyways.
posted by dokodomo to Technology (2 answers total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
Even if you don't use the Duolingo club feature, you can still follow other users, see their progress in relation to yours, and you're prompted to congratulate them on their achievements.
posted by mezzanayne at 12:56 PM on November 30, 2021 [1 favorite]


Best answer: Duolingo's friend features are limited. You friend other members and can see their total XP and the day-by-day XP scores for the past week; certain badges, milestones, etc. that they've achieved. Note these are all in Duolingo's currency - I know my wife is in the Obsidian league and has 59291 XP, but not that she's mastered the present tense conjugation of avoir or learned 30 food vocabulary words. The messages you send are pre-selected; if someone does 10 lessons in a day you can send them a high five.

It wouldn't be enough by itself for fun remote group learning experience, but it could be with a back channel for group communication like a Slack where you can marvel at the weird sentences, rage about getting relegated from your league and speculate whether Bea and Lin from the stories are an item.
posted by Superilla at 2:19 PM on November 30, 2021 [1 favorite]


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