Langotalk: AI Language Tutor

This app annoyed me to the point I quit. For one thing, they don’t understand half of what you are saying regardless of how well you enunciate. The other is that they grade you after each conversation which can vary wildly from a super condescending PRE-A1 to a more appropriate B1. But you never know. And then when you unsubscribe, you get a nasty little Email about there must be insufficient funds in your bank account and they’re going to keep trying…” Non! J’ai FINI!

While this app has some potential, I am finding it so frustrating that I am not sure I want to continue after the free trial. When I answer a question it’s way too harsh and judgy. For example it asked me a very specific question, it told me to say my name and say where you are from in Spanish, my response was Me llamo Kat, soy de Los Estados Unidos, it tells me not quite because I didn’t tell my age, it didn’t ask me to say how old I am, it also said I need to capitalize The United States, I wasn’t writing it, I was speaking so why would I get dinged for that? And then one question it completely said I was wrong when I definitely was not wrong

This app, just starts saying things that you’ve never heard before in paragraph form. Your first session will have you wondering what each of 40 words mean and it is painfully slow to click on each word. If you ask the ‘ai’ for help or say you don’t understand it just repeats the same foreign response that you still don’t understand to you. This is not a learning app, it’s for people who already know the language and want to practice