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Flowlingo — Get fluent in a language through content immersion
Flowlingo helps you learn a language by immersing you in popular TV, news, videos, blogs, and more.
If you don’t know a word or phrase, just tap it. Flowlingo will tell you what it means and automatically create a flashcard for future practice.
22 languages are available.
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Thanks for hunting Flowlingo, @jsneedles! Our mission is to make effective language learning fun and accessible to everyone. Flowlingo is fun because you get to choose from real news, blogs, and videos to practice with. We strive to have something for everyone, so adding more content and more languages is our primary focus right now.
We're constantly adding content and have plans to enable the Flowlingo community to help us find and add interesting books and videos faster. We support 22 languages already and are adding more—if a language you're interested in is missing from our app, let us know and we'll add it soon!
Right now, the app is great for learning how to read and listen. We'd like to take the same principles and apply them to practicing writing and speaking as well in the future.
So saw this "Every language has an amazing variety of books, blogs, TV shows, and music." but for Japanese it seemed your options were to browse websites, click on words to be translated (poorly - an article about Mars got the word order wrong and tried to say the planet was not like earth but had an earth-like atmosphere rather than the reverse), and some flash cards. Are the TV, Books, etc hidden? Or should there be some indication of which languages have what?
Hi @naweg, we'll be adding clarity for this in the app. In terms of translations issues, we're already in contact over email in order to understand what you're seeing.
Cool idea, however at the moment it's unusable on the iPhone X because the tabs are underneath the bottom notch (the slider you use for "Home"). I remember you had a web app as well, what a pity I can't find it anymore as it was easier to use than the apps. Good luck!
@aluxian You're right, if you tap the black bar then you can't toggle to a couple of tabs. If you don't tap directly on the bar, the tabs work fine. We'll add some padding, thanks for pointing that out. We originally had a web app, but dropped support because Flowlingo contains a browser in the app now, which can't be supported in a mobile web app.
Really great initiative. Definitely one of the best ways to learn a language in my opinion (being fully immersed). The app's performances could, however, be much better to be honest (very average on an iPhone 6 for example). Do you have any plan regarding this matter? Again, thank you for your hard work!
Thanks @raphael_b. Yes, there are a bunch of performance improvements that we're planning to ship soon.
Will use for the next couple of weeks and share my feedback. But great stuff! :)
Pros:Looks pretty useful. I specially liked the book version. Was pretty much bored with Duolingo after completing all the chapters there.
Cons:Looks like the app is not very optimised for performance but i understand the focus would be more on to test the usability.
Thanks Rohit! If you email us at contact@getflowlingo.com with your device specs, I'll investigate the performance issues you're seeing.
We’re excited to share our new language learning app, Flowlingo. Our app is built around a few simple principles:
- The best way to learn is by doing. To practice reading in Spanish, you should read Spanish articles and books. To practice listening, you should spend time with TV shows, music, and podcasts.
- Real content is better than “educational content”. Every language has an amazing variety of books, blogs, TV shows, and music. Choose whatever interests you, and Flowlingo will make it accessible, even if you’re a beginner.
- The best way to stay motivated is to enjoy the process. With Flowlingo, you learn by doing the same things you already enjoy — in the language you want to practice.
- Regular practice is key to improvement. There’s new content every day, and Flowlingo makes it easy to get a few minutes of learning while you’re on the go.
- Real learning progress is better than gamification. It's not about collecting “points” or extending your “streak”. It's about the satisfaction of breezing through articles you used to think were difficult, and moving on to more challenging material.
We hope you give Flowlingo a shot, and let us know what you think!
Fantastic idea and a great product!
Might want to change your sign up flow to AFTER users discovered the value of your app.. Duolingo is a great example to model after.
And I had some problems with "De Telegraaf" requiring my cookie consent, but I can't seem to click the consent button...
This will be my new go-to app for learning languages :))
This looks *amazing*. This is definitely the way I learned English, and even German, back when I still had any working knowledge of that language. I see Danish will be added soon, and that just makes me crazy excited. Thank you!
Thanks @mierke88! Yes, we're adding Danish soon. If you have particular Danish websites that you already like, please let me know.
Overall good idea . "Words" function doesn't work, it doesn't let me tap. No chance to opt-out or delete own personal data.
Hi @c_paolini1, sorry for the issues. please email us at contact@getflowlingo or in the app (just tap Help) to get the Words issues fixed and if you'd still like to have your data deleted.
Looks cool but is there any reason why non of my Android devices are compatible with it? I don't see how that can be for the Huawei Mate 9 running nougat. Like does the app need a 10-core CPU to run or what? I think there's an issue with your submission to the Play Store, it incorrectly flags devices as incompatible.
Hi @anna_0x! Sorry for the issue. Can you email us at contact@getflowlingo.com to get this fixed? Thanks in advance.
@getflowlingo @mkelly Sure, I just sent you an email with my device specs and screenshots from the Play Store.
An innovative, smart and easy-to-use tool to improve learning a language. Suggested to those who are looking for a "fast" way to grow vocabulary
Pros:Easy, smart and fast to improve learning
Cons:No service for desktop view
Thanks for the review! I'm glad you like it. We plan to support desktop in the future.
Very Cool product! I totally agree that the best way to learn a language is by doing. Question: Is it going to stay free or are you planning to release a freemium version with in-app purchases?
Thanks @edi_steimle! While premium features are something we might look into, we want to always have a free version of Flowlingo to make it accessible to everyone.
interesting product - can see it being useful.
suggestion. why hold a word to translate it? will a tap not do, or maybe it's a tech thing 🙂
@therealrossmac unfortunately tapping to translate wouldn't work because then you wouldn't be able to interact with links, buttons, etc.
Thanks @jundishes! We add sites that have high quality, frequent content and support a given language--meaning the content is created by professionals in that language. For example, New York Times is available in Chinese, Spanish, and English, so it's available for those languages in Flowlingo.
great way to learn a language while reading posts you're actually interested in.
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