Update: After 6 months of waiting, they have finally fix the issue below, so now I can finally advance in the program! I am so happy!!! Therefore, even though it took nearly six months from my first report of the issue to get it fixed, I will still give it 5 stars now since I love the app. Next time if there is an issue, I hope it doesn’t take this long to resolve the issue!!!!!At first I loved this app, and that’s why I paid lifetime membership of $100. I start learning Chinese. The I get to test one and can’t pass the first test because of a bug. Whenever there is a real life speaker, you have to put the words in order of the way it was spoken. It also says to put spaces between the words; however, there is no option for spaces; therefore answers are marked incorrect because words are slurred together. I first reported this on December 13, 2019. LingoDeer Support contacted me and said thank you for reporting, and it would be resolved with the next update. They have had several updates since December, and It is still not resolved. So I tried to go on the computer to take the test. Needless to say there is another type of glitch that will not allow me to pass the test. I reported that, and it is still not fixed either. They are so proud to present customers with The new Fluent Chinese; however, the app doesn’t allow users to get past the Test 1 beginner. IF YOU ARE BUYING THIS TO LEARN CHINESE DON’T!!! You won’t be able to continue learning. I want a refund!!!!!

If you took some of the more popular text books and made it an interactive app. This would be it. As such you should use this like you would an interactive text book: as a starting point. LingoDeer explains grammar very well and the exercises are simple and engaging but drill in the grammar and limited vocabulary they are teaching you. There is a small story for each chapter. The stories are short and interesting enough. I do wish there were more. If you are interested in learning a language I would probably recommend starting here. I want to be clear though, you can’t learn a language with an app alone. You have talk to yourself through out the day in your target language it might be as simple as narrating your actives, “ me levanto y me capillo mis dientes” I wake up and brush my teeth. Then, as soon as you can start reading and then summarizing what you read and asking questions. Pros - Grammar instruction is king. Short simple and easy to understand, Interactive, works, app feels easy and well made. CON - Lingodeer’s vocabulary is just too small per lesson. Add in another 5 or 10 words per day and use them to tell a story, use AI to write you a story using your daily vocabulary and read. Plus where does this vocabulary come from? Why am I learning “Peach and Pear” before House?

I’m learning Brazilian Portuguese and Japanese ( I’ve been learning Japanese on and off for years). I’m happy that the app realizes that with Japanese, hiragana, katakana, and kanji are apart of what is NEEDED to learn and the system does the work. They make sure you’re in. And for my Portuguese, I have two apps and book teaching me. I find that this one gets straight to the point in a way that could rival babbel. I feel the need to come directly to this app for some study everyday. I get grammar notes ( which yesss, give me more grammar.. I think I can handle it). Lastly... I didn’t knock it down a star because this is me almost comparing it to a company that offers something that lingodeer didn’t say that they would be pursuing but I really wish they had a lab like duo lingo. I want to learn to read. I want more resources for learning the language. I want to be able to open the app. Give me another reason to stay here. ( which honestly...This is the best application). One last gripe actually... that again is not worth knocking stars down. Portuguese is very phonetic like English, however it is only phonetic if you know the alphabet ( or spanish)... add an alphabet. It helps with pronunciation and being able to spontaneously pronounce/spell out words. Include alphabet and pronunciation with these Romance languages. Just like with Japanese, they require differences in how we go about learning them. Pleaseeeeeeee. Especially pronunciation help...

This is hands down the best app I’ve used for learning a different language, Japanese specifically. I could go on and on, it’s just incredible. I tried learning Japanese last summer and failed miserably, nothing I used helped work for me. This summer I tried going back to it, and I used Duolingo at first. It was good, but I wish I had used this app sooner! Someone recommended it to me and I fell in love instantly! It makes it so much fun, and maybe it’s since I’m just passionate about learning the language, but still! It has all these fun lessons and games, and makes everything very interesting. I’ve only used it for Japanese, but from the rest of the reviews, I can see it’s an amazing app all in all, no matter what you want to learn! I highly, HIGHLY recommend this app for anyone wanting to learn a new Asian language! And I want to give a big thanks to the developers! You guys have done an amazing job! On another note, I’d like to say that there’s something I’ve run into recently that’s kind of bugging me. During the Pop Quizzes, sometimes if I write the answer wrong and try to erase it, the letters will disappear and I can’t finish the answer. Like, if I write “わした” instead of “わたし” and I go to erase “し“ and “た”, one of the two wont go back to my keyboard, so I can’t write it down correctly. I hope you guys look into it because it’s becoming a bit annoying! Thank you! ^_^