Mastering English may be easier than you think. Smartphones have become useful tools not only as a means of communication but also as a means of self-development and online learning.
Whether you are learning English or any other language, mobile apps are great!
Here are 15 mobile apps that will support your English learning process:
1) Duolingo
With over 200 million users, Duolingo is one of the most popular mobile apps for learning foreign languages. This application, which Google Play awarded the “Best of the Best” in 2013, is completely free as well as teaching language quickly and fun. There are 23 language options.
2) Mango Languages
With over 70 language options and 21 English courses including Turkish language support, Mango Languages simplifies your language learning process with its simple interface and mango animations. By comparing the sound recording of the sentences you want to learn with your own sound recording, you can observe and reduce the differences in your pronunciation.
3) Memrise
Memrise, which was awarded the "Best Practice" award of Google Play in 2017 and selected as the "iPad App of the Year" in 2016, is an application that makes language learning a game. You can improve your language learning skills by completing the task accompanied by adventure games with this application that attaches importance to video education.
4) Kahoot!
Kahoot is an application that makes quiz enjoyable and facilitates the measurement and evaluation process for teachers. You can use this application not only when preparing multiple choice exams, but also when mixing mixed phrases, words, starting a discussion about any topic or preparing a survey. The feature that distinguishes Kahoot from Plickers is that students can join the game online by connecting from their phones without the need for any registered class.
5) VocabSushi
VocabSushi is the perfect app to expand your vocabulary. This application, which teaches foreign words using sentences quoted from classical novels and fantastic stories, should be the primary choice of book lovers. Moreover, the book content is renewed every week.
6) HiNative
With more than 120 language support, HiNative aims to teach language by enabling you to interact with people who speak the language you want to learn as their mother tongue. You can improve your grammar knowledge by asking the locals of the country you choose and get advice about the country you will visit before traveling.
7) Wakie
Wakie is an app that allows people with common interests to chat on the phone. Through Wakie, you can communicate with local people in the countries where the language you are learning is spoken and you can practice speaking on any topics.
8) Quizlet
Quizlet's mobile application operates with the logic of preparing your own cards and exams yourself. More than 20 million students use this application, which also provides access to cards and tests prepared by other users. You can share your work sets with your friends and work anywhere you want thanks to the offline usage feature.
9) Voscreen
This application, which focuses on short video sections, plans to teach English by watching movies, music videos, documentaries and cartoons. Voscreen, which has content suitable for all ages and levels, recommends that you devote at least 20 minutes a day to practice your language skills.
10) Tandem
With support for more than 150 languages, Tandem is a mobile application that matches everyone who wants to learn a foreign language around the world. This application, which allows users to teach their mother tongue, offers written, verbal and video chat options.
11) English Ninjas
Designed for those who want to improve their knowledge of English, English Ninjas offers the opportunity to speak live with native English instructors. You can chat and practice with foreign instructors living in different parts of the world.
12- Speaky
"Speaky" is a fully foreign language chat application. It consists of users from more than 180 different countries. While you are trying to contact and speak to people whose native language is English, those who want to learn Turkish as you choose your mother tongue, as well, are contacting you when you sign up. While teaching a foreign language, it can be enjoyable to teach Turkish at the same time.
13- LearnEnglish Podcast
English learning foreign language learning is one of the mobile applications for those who want to improve their listening and pronunciation. There are many series and texts on various topics. While following these texts with your eyes, you can listen to their correct pronunciation simultaneously. The 3 stories consist of 40 chapters and are tested at the end of the chapter.
14-TED Talks
TED is an annual conference attended by the world's leading thinkers to share ideas that excite them the most. It takes its name "TED" from the first letters of three main topics - Technology, Entertainment and Design (Technology, Entertainment, Design) that shape our future. The scope of the event promotes the emergence of all ideas that are related to any discipline. According to the participants, TED conferences are a journey to the future, a purification of the mind.
TED serves as a center where we can explore important ways of thinking from different fields and adapt them to our own life and business life. The result for most participants: An exciting experience, unexpected connections, unusual opinions, and a powerful inspiration. The event includes a wide range of participants, from CEOs to scientists, creators and philanthropists. Participants are equally extraordinary in the event where speakers such as Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, Frank Gehry, Paul Simon, Sir Richard Branson, Philippe Starck and Bono are present.
It is also part of TED's philosophy to find newly introduced artists, scientists and thinkers who are not yet famous, and to introduce them to the TED community. Above all, TED is much more than famous names… Ideas, passion, laughter, beauty and skill that have the power to change the world…
15- QuizUp
QuizUp, a popular quiz app first released for iOS users, is now available for Android users. In the game, which includes more than 400 categories from many different areas such as lifestyle, literature, food, geography, players also have the opportunity to compete with their friends or other players. The number of downloading the application has exceeded 10 million in total.
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