The 11 best apps to learn English

Why invest in language courses when free mobile applications can make you a perfect English language user?

Learning a new language is an enriching process that requires a certain dose of seriousness. No matter what reason you want to learn English, be it for a possible trip to London or Washington, Dublin or Belfast, or for your personal culture, means much more efficient and less expensive than traditional language classes exist. If you’re comfortable with smartphones and tablets, totally free apps will help you learn Shakespeare’s language.

Operating on both Android and iOS devices, here is our ranking of the 11 best apps to learn English from home and at your own pace!

1.Babbel

Babbel was created in 2007, and the app allows you to learn English as well as about 15 other online languages and has become one of the leaders in this field!

Its English version offers you training in British, American, Irish, Canadian and even Australian or New Zealand English. All in transparency.

Featuring a playful interface, Babbel wins well-known year by year, and offers two training modules for learning: vocabulary or tools. Whether you’re playing a basic or advanced level in English, Babbel’s mission is to make you a perfect bilingual. To do this, the application uses interactive activities that are structured around oral and written exercises, and a very simple method that reminds the translator of old: a word in French and its translation in English.

Only flat: Although very complete, this Babbel app is paying. We'll have to pay a few. 5 € per month if you take the subscription to the year or 7.5 € per month if you take the 6-month subscription.

2.MosaLingua English

MosaLingua is a mastodon of English learning applications. Indeed, this small cross-platform application provides courses based on a method that has proven itself at the scientific level, the spaced repetition. Indeed, the purpose of the application is to help you memorize words using vocabulary exercises.

To do this, the application uses some 3000 maps with words as well as key phrases, which will be repeated unexpectedly over your evolution in levels, to help you memorize the maximum possible words.

3. Skyeng

Ultra flexible, Skyeng is available in a mobile version: expanding its vocabulary, exercising and boosting its skills becomes feasible at any time and anywhere for anyone downloading the mobile app! As far as the rate is concerned, it depends on the chosen formula but to give you an idea, it starts from 21,90 € the 4 courses .

Cherry on the cake: Skyeng also offers discussion clubs that allow you to exchange in English with learners from all over the world.

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4. Gymglish

Gymglish is an application to learn English in a playful way. Fun courses that stimulate our cognitive functions. Also, the application offers several learning methods. Daily lessons, micro learning , adaptive learning or humorous stories, everyone will find a method that looks like him.

And the least we can say is that it works, since Gymglish has an equal rate of 80%. In addition, at the end of the training, you can be rewarded with a degree certifying your progress. A pretty cake cherry.

5. Mondly

In a few years, Mondly has become one of the real reference applications to learn a new language! Designed in 2013, the application is already complete for 33 languages.

Mondly’s real advantage is that she perfectly combines Babbel’s learning method with Duolingo’s, while presenting her own features! Here, you will learn your skills in written understanding as oral, vocabulary and grammar.

In addition, you can choose the setting in which you want to learn English. Going on vacation, learning for work or simply improving your skills, you have a choice! The real plus of the application lies in its intuitive chatbot, which will guide you throughout your learning process.

Price level, you will have the choice between a subscription 9,99 € for a month, and 47,99 € For a year. The application also offers many offers throughout the year. Otherwise, you can also choose the "subscription for life" version. 60 € , to never have to spend any more money.

6. FluentU

FluentU is the most in phase application with its time in our ranking. Indeed, it breaks with the learning codes by offering everything good to learn English through podcasts and other digital information formats. This is the most innovative application of our ranking.

Several types of tools are available within FluentU, ranging from videos to fairly vulgar subjects such as music clips, to more squares such as news and advertising. This type of training is challenging one of the issues of language learning. Indeed, after days and days of learning, when you are put into real situations, you rarely have whites during conversation phases.

To help you step by step, each video has a detailed script in English, so that you know what term this or that means. Only flat, as in the air of its time the application has a cost, since only the first two weeks of use are free, you will have to pay later 15 € per month or 120 € per year to continue accessing it.

7. Busuu

Busuu has also imposed itself in the landscape of language learning applications. Indeed, weighing only a few megabytes, this app offers courses like in school, which will provide you with the notions of vocabulary and grammar, dialogues in the format of stories to be read or audio documents that will facilitate the understanding of the phonetics of words.

Here, 150 themes are addressed in 3,000 unique phrases to read and listen. Whether it’s about everyday life or more professional and serious subjects, Busuu is the ideal accompaniment tool for Duolingo, even if learners at the intermediate level can use it to perfect their knowledge.

The flat is a little disappointment... First free of charge, the application becomes paid! On the other hand, the application is fairly economical since you will only have to count 34,99 € year round, for the premium version!

For the premium plus version, you will have to pay about 6,50 € per month. But no worries, it is common that the application offers attractive offers...

8. Memrise

In the summer, the tip of its nose is soon, and the holidays are the opportunity to travel, visit the country, learn new languages to make new friends and acquaintances. Memrise is an app that will help you learn English in all ease. Indeed, Memrise is a learning tool based on the use of vocabulary cards that you will need to memorize gradually by repeating them according to certain time intervals.

These maps are created and enriched by the user community. If you want to push your training to a higher level, a pay subscription range is also available.

A basic version is free. For advanced use, three monthly subscriptions ( $8.99 ), quarterly ( $18.99 ) and annual ( $45.99 ) are planned.

9. Duolingo

Duolingo is an essential application in the world of language learning. Whether it’s English or any of your favourite languages, Duolingo is the Swiss language learning knife. This application is by default in French once installed on your smartphone, and uses small fun games to teach you the language of your choice, which in this case is English. To do this, you will have the opportunity to improve vocabulary, conjugation and grammar, punctuation and oral understanding.

Well structured, learning gradually evolves over the missions that will be assigned to you in the application, the level of difficulty increasing proportionally. This method will help you to understand in a short time the most arduous terms of Shakespeare's language.

Fully free (no integrated purchases), Duolingo also has a backup tool that will make learning easier on various media. Indeed, you can start an exercise on your tablet to complete it on the smartphone, and this independently of the operating system embedded in the terminal.

10. Tandem

This is a much different application from all you know so far! Here you learn the languages you already master, then the ones you want to learn. Then, you indicate some of your interests, topics of discussion that you like to discuss on a daily basis.

Finally, Tandem will offer you profiles of people who want to learn your language, and who master the one you want to know. The advantage here is that you can chat with people from all over the world, and thus exchange on your cultural differences.

Fully free, Tandem is a real opportunity to learn a language while meeting (virtually) new people. So you will be both a student and a teacher, all in a studious and relaxed atmosphere.

11. LearnEnglish Grammar UK Edition

LearnEnglish Grammar UK Edition is the flagship application launched by the British Council to serve as a digital gateway to the extension of the language learning tools of our neighbour of Outre-Manche. Indeed, totally free too, this application offers learning according to a fairly singular method.

Working with level packs, learning is provided in the form of exercises, with questions spread in 25 topics such as "Simple Water", "Question tags" and "Prepositions". Each pack containing 600 questions is more than 1,000 questions that need to be answered to make it clearer about the daily use of the English language.