Fluent Forever: The App - Does it Work?

This week, I give you my thoughts and opinions on the language learning app Fluent Forever by Gabriel Wyner!
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[@user-lc4nu9pv3p]

I don't think you can give a descent review after using the app for four days. Learning a language takes time and if you've read the book the app is more of a substitute to Anki. The app helps you create flashcards faster and it also incorporates the different types of practice cards Gabriel suggests. Being said this, I don't believe this app alone will is the way to learn a language, but if you want to follow the fluent forever method it will save you time.

[@commoncola]

お茶Ωお茶 Thank you for your comment! You’re right, it’s hard to give a decent review after only four days. I haven’t read the book and I never really thought of it as just an alternative to Anki

[@user-lc4nu9pv3p]

@@commoncola I believe it's exactly that. I've tried the method, I don't really think is bad, is just time consuming. Is just that doing a lot of flashcards can be very, very boring.

[@emeryforrest863]

Pro trick : you can watch series at kaldroStream. Been using it for watching all kinds of movies during the lockdown.

[@blakearchie5416]

@Emery Forrest yup, I have been watching on kaldrostream for since november myself :)

[@emiliolangston9724]

@Emery Forrest Definitely, have been using kaldrostream for months myself :D

[@Larry.Roberton]

Your review was super cool!

[@nataliaviolari950]

You look like leonard from Bing Bang Theory

[@AndyJugglesLanguages]

I've just watched your video while eating some bread and ended up falling on the floor crying of laughter. I'm going to add a photo of this to my Yugoslavian album.

[@PotentialDreamer]

Hello friend =) Really useful, keep going!

[@StillWatersRunDeep101]

I thought I was at a disadvantage not being able to use their app because they don't offer Lao, the language of Laos. But now I'm glad I can customize my own pictorial lessons and they won't be random. I'm drawing from lists of the most common adjectives, verbs, nouns, (and yes, common phrases!), etc., used in any language. So, yeah, no 'Yugoslavian album' will pop up just to confuse & frustrate me & waste my time contemplating the uselessness of such terms. I only have so much space in my brain to give any given study session, after all, lol!

[@nawal1786]

How do I remove the visa from the program? I canceled my subscription, but it is not deleted

[@janiveble5683]

You should learn Jugoslavian album, it is ultimate solution to learn many foreign languages

[@AndyJugglesLanguages]

I was a bit disappointed when I went to the website and selected Korean, Arabic, Mandarin, Hebrew and English and none of those languages are available but listed on the front page.

[@commoncola]

It certainly is disappointing. Hopefully they'll add those languages soon

[@youtubeuser3357]

It's because they are all the most difficult to produce content for

[@paulwalther5237]

I liked your review (actually I liked your video editing I think.. ) although like someone else pointed out it would be nice if you used the app longer to give a more in depth review. Maybe using the app more you would get more familiar with its features and better learn how to learn the material first that YOU want to learn first instead of something about an album from Yugoslavia. But then again your first impression that it's put together a bit sloppy might be really accurate. I'm hesitant to try it since it's not really cheap and it seems like downloading a premade deck for Anki would be about the same. And you really can't expect to retain anything in a foreign language after just 4 days. Anything you study for just 4 days is only in your short term memory and will be gone soon if you don't review it again soon.

[@commoncola]

I do agree that I should've tried it out for longer than 4 days before conducting my review. I found that it was really just paid pre-made Anki decks. The only real unique aspect was the audio trainer. Thank you for your comment!

[@pnkcnlng228]

HIII, very good video, do you know where I can find some pdf of lenguage gram books. I tried FSI but no...

[@commoncola]

Thanks! I'm not sure of any right now. Later on, I'll try to take a look to see what I can find!

[@tuboplover]

Have you looked on Discord

[@commoncola]

That’s a good idea!

[@pnkcnlng228]

@@tuboplover thank you very nn ci!

[@stefanborkovski2678]

Review some geography app too ✊🏾

[@josianrios2819]

This video should call "my first impression of the app". So people can understand the app better... the app will begin with pronunciation AND THEN will go to teach you how to comunicate with others in the language. Because you need to understand the pronunciation so you don't sound weird talking the language. Just because you know how to present yourself in a other language with bad pronunciation doesn't mean you are communicating. You are communicating but not clearly.

[@johanna1232]

You do know that you're not supposed to learn the example words in the trainer right? They're just there for you to learn how to hear the sounds. After you've completed that section it starts actually teaching you words. And it starts with nouns like star, sky, river etc. And verbs like run, and swim

[@alfonsohshk8998]

Before you learn languages you should first acquire a basic general knowledge, then you will know the minimum required in order not to sound "slow" as it is the case about Yugoslavia.

[@ChaosBarnaby]

Great review. But dude. The volume on the audio is ALL over the place. Listening in headphones was PAINFUL several times. A solution to this might be listening through your whole video on stock Apple headphones (the headphones that the plurality of people will be listening on) all the way through and checking for big volume changes. All in all nice video though. The content is great!

[@sweetborger]

ive tried anything and it wont let me cancel AT ALL

[@commoncola]

Tangy lovekitty Oh my, that is certainly a problem. Is there a way you can get ahold of customer service? Best of luck getting it resolved!

[@pennylessz]

CommonCola I contacted customer service after it failed to cancel, and I was outright refused a refund.

[@sarahsitu7873]

I probably just got it for pronunciation, and stick with Duolingo for vocabulary and others (still don’t have income for it)

[@USA2Brazil]

I get it dude and understand Income issues all to well. You might like LingoDeer app much better then Duolingo in my opinion.

[@accent77]

You really didn't know what Yugoslavia was?

[@musical_lolu4811]

Because native speakers are the ideal, dude. That's why he brought'em in for Spanish.

[@kamilcie6497]

Maaan if you dont know what Yugoslavia was you should go back to elementary school...

[@FromUrsaMinor]

Had to stop watching after the "discovery" of Yugoslavia. This was like that American girl on tv who wondered if Hungary and Europe were countries 🤦‍♀️

[@JacobA666]

I would not want to trust a guy who cheats in order to achieve something 🤣 but that's me

[@JensPetter95]

Why review an app you got so little experience with? This sucks

[@musical_lolu4811]

No app can teach you anything.

[@orobill]

You got bored after 4 days of using something maybe you should go back to video games and leave reviewing learning programs to the adults