These Apps Teach You How to Talk like a Native

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Do you learn best by staring at a textbook for hours? Didn’t think so. We’ve rounded up the best free language learning apps.

Duolingo

Duolingo is a fun app that teaches words and sentence structure through repetitive games. Learn how to listen, write, and translate sentences. The more challenges you complete, the more topics you unlock! They currently offer courses in 27 languages and are developing four more!

Hello Talk and Tandem

These apps allow you to have conversations with native speakers of any language! Make friends while practicing sentences used in real life. The interfaces let users correct each other’s sentences and then explain the reason for correction. You can also exchange voice messages so you can understand accents and pronunciations.

Triplingo

Learn slang and phrases that are actually used in the everyday communication. Triplingo translates your voice recordings so you can communicate with locals. Triplingo also has a photo translation feature.