Why invest in language courses when you can use the best applications to learn English language?
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| The best applications to learn English |
Running on both Android and iOS devices, here’s our top list of the best applications to learn English from home and at your own pace!
BABBEL, THE MUST-HAVE
Babbel was founded in 2007, and the application makes it possible to learn English and about 15 other languages online and has established itself as one of the leaders in the field!
The English version of Babbel offers training in British, American, Irish, Canadian and even Australian and New Zealand English. All in transparency.
With a fun interface (but less fun than Duolingo’s), Babbel is becoming more and more popular every year, and offers two training modules for learning: vocabulary and tools. Whether you have a basic or advanced level in English, Babbel is committed to making you fluent in both languages. The application uses interactive activities with oral and written exercises.
The only downside is that the Babbel application is very comprehensive and comes at a high price, since it costs about 9.95 euros per month or 59.40 euros per year after the first free lesson to continue learning.
DUOLINGO
Duolingo is a must-have application in the world of language learning. Whether it is English or another of your favourite languages, Duolingo is the Swiss Army Knife of language learning. This application, once installed on your smartphone uses fun little games to teach you the language of your choice, which in this case is English. To do so, you will have the opportunity to improve vocabulary, conjugation and grammar, punctuation and listening comprehension.
Well structured, the learning evolves in a gradual way over the missions that will be assigned to you in the application, with the level of difficulty increasing proportionally. This method will help you understand the most difficult terms in Shakespeare’s language in a short period of time.
Completely free of charge (no built-in purchases), Duolingo also has a backup tool that will make learning on various media easy. Indeed, you will be able to start an exercise on your tablet and complete it on your smartphone, independently of the operating system embedded in the terminal.
LEARNENGLISH GRAMMAR UK EDITION
LearnEnglish Grammar UK Edition is one of the best applications to learn English launched by the British Council to serve as a digital gateway to the popularisation of language learning tools. Indeed, this application is also totally free of charge and offers a unique learning method.
The learning is delivered in the form of exercises, with questions divided into 25 topics such as “Simple past”, “Question tags” and “Prepositions”. Each pack contains 600 questions, more than 1000 questions that must be answered in order to see more clearly the daily use of the English language.
MEMRISE
Memrise is an application that will help you learn English with ease. In fact, Memrise is a learning tool based on the use of vocabulary cards that you will have to memorize little by little by repeating them at certain intervals.
These cards are created and enriched by the user community. Free of charge and with no built-in purchases, this application is an excellent tool to get started.
BUSUU
Busuu has also established itself in the landscape of language learning applications. Indeed, weighing only a few megabytes and completely free, this application offers you courses like at school, which will provide you with vocabulary and grammar notions, dialogues in story format to read or audio documents that will facilitate the understanding of the phonetics of words.
150 themes are covered, with 3000 unique sentences to read and listen to. This is the perfect companion tool for Duolingo or Babbel, although intermediate level learners can use it to perfect their knowledge.
MOSALINGUA ENGLISH
MosaLingua is with no doubt amongst the best applications to learn English vocabulary. Indeed, this small, multi-platform application delivers courses using a scientifically proven method of spaced repetition. Indeed, the application’s mission is to help you memorize words using vocabulary exercises.
Here is a detailed review of MOSALINGUA
BBC LEARNING ENGLISH
The official BBC Learning English app brings together all of your favourite lessons and presenters in one fantastic, simple-to-use package. It’s the best way to keep your English up to date!
AND NOW – it’s even better! You asked to be able to download our audio programmes so that you can listen to them whenever you want. UPDATE your app today and you will find a new download button with all of our audio programmes (6 Minute English, 6 Minute Grammar and 6 Minute Vocabulary). Click to download and listen offline. We’ll be adding more audio programmes over the coming weeks.
So, whether you want to study grammar, improve your pronunciation, develop your English through topical new stories or learn the latest phrases to use in your everyday conversations, this app has the series for you.
LingQ
In the category “applications for learning a language”, here is one of the most complete I know. Created by Steve Kaufmann, a multilingual American with 14 languages, the platform is a gold mine of courses of all kinds. The scope of the offer is quite impressive.
In fact, it is the only platform to offer courses in rare languages. To cut a long story short, it is presented in the form of dialogues that are dissected as the lessons progress. Hic: you have to be disciplined and motivated to reach the end of the resource! The application seems inexhaustible to me! I recommend that you take a look!
LingoZing
It’s the big find of the moment! LingoZing is an application that offers language learning through comic books. I might as well tell you that it’s exactly what I was hoping for. It allows you to take a break from films and Tv shows… it’s also a completely different way of learning a new language. While reading, you really have time to look at each word, look at the images and put the lines in context.
So how does it work? You download the application and choose the language you want to study. You will be offered comic books in the language you are studying, with instructions in your native language. You will also be able to choose the level of difficulty. Each bubble of the comic book is translated into your two languages, and audio is also available.
The application is brand new and you have to pay a few euros to access the books. But between us, it’s really worth it. Seriously, though.
Hello-hello English
Hello-Hello English is a full-fledged language course with 30 LESSONS developed in collaboration with the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), so you can rest assured that the lessons follow a methodology based on effective research. All conversation lessons have been based on real-life situations and dialogues, rather than a collection of words and phrases out of context.
The content is stored in the application, so responsiveness will be remarkable when you feel ready to learn a language. You don’t need to be connected to a Wi-Fi or 3G network to run the application. With Hello-Hello English you will be able to take your lessons and put the vocabulary into practice anytime, anywhere, and develop all the dexterity required to communicate in a foreign language. All lessons have been recorded by native speakers so that you can learn how to pronounce correctly.
With Hello-Hello English you can too:
Practice vocabulary with over 300 words and phrases, using our VISUAL SUPPORTS!
Record your own NOTES in each lesson.
– You can now access the entire application, including the translation of lessons and word lists into your native language! Available languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Chinese and Portuguese.
Gymglish
Gymglish offers personalized daily English lessons. Each day, you receive a mix of written and audio content in English. 10 minutes of stories about the adventures of the Delavigne Corporation, dialogues, questions, ‘mini-lessons’, humor, business English, various accents, personalized revisions… After sending your answers, you will receive your correction with commentary, your score of the day, personalized explanations, the vocabulary you requested, the script of the audios…
It’s a good point to start with a J-test. And they explain how it’s going to work: you can choose what you want to work on, and specify the words you don’t understand.
The training adapts to your level as you go along (that’s what the app says at the beginning), and you have to start with a test and register.
GlobalExam
To finish this top of the best applications for learning a language, we have selected the one that will help you pass the language exams. TOEIC, TOEFL, HSK, DELE… almost all languages are available.
A real nugget when you know how complicated it can be to find the right course material to effectively review an exam. The site offers you an impressive amount of content, very good quality. Take a quick look!
Our Choice
As you can imagine, Duolingo is the one selected from the above list of the best applications to learn English. Gathering most of the tools necessary to learn English, the application also finds its best complementary application Busuu.
