Just tried it for 15 minutes.
Impressions:
- Your website and your app looks neat, although I'm not a fan of "children colorbook" style.
- I like that you can vary difficulty level without having to "unlock" longer sentences.
- I hate that writting has to be perfect to the punctuation, esp since I do not always know how to write some punctuation marks or accent with my english keyboard (I went with learning spanish)
Fundamentally, I do not think it's that very different from duo-lingo though (that's just my first impression of course, but you might find it interresting anyway - maybe put upfront what really differenciate your app?)
Do you know about the "Language Transfer" app, which approach to language learning is also centered on listening (but in their case, listening to conversations with a teacher)?
Best of luck!
I love the beginning of your text here. You and your friend have an idea and you say, "Let's do it!" I am so glad that we could help you do it! I may have to check this out when I get the chance. (Not a company endorsement -- I am personally interested in language acquisition.) --Katie
Hi, OP here. I wanted to share a few additional points about Latudio's approach:
Latudio is designed with a specific focus - like a Unix tool, it does one thing and aims to do it well. That one thing is improving your listening comprehension. Although we do not have dedicated exercises for grammar (though you'll naturally pick grammar up along the way), we have tools to enlarge and explore your vocabulary as well as practice writing and speaking.
Latudio works best if you already have some basic vocabulary and grammar understanding. While not for complete beginners, you don't need to be advanced either - if you can understand simple sentences in your target language, you're ready to start.
On the technical/privacy side: I made a conscious decision to build Latudio without any trackers or analytics beyond the bare minimum needed for functionality. We use Plausible for website visits tracking, but that's about it. This makes marketing more challenging - our marketing team keeps telling me how much easier their job would be with more user data, if we could target our ads better... But I value user's (and mine) privacy highly and so I don't want to do to others what I don't like being done to me, even if it means growing more slowly.
Happy to answer any questions!