Language Learning Technologies

Advice

• Fluent Forever: Anki
• Fluent Forever: Pronunciation Explanation
• Fluent Forever: Resources

AI Voice Generators

• Amazon Polly
• ElevenLabs – 30 mins/month, $5, 32 languages, free plan
• Murf.ai – 10-minute free plan
• Play.ht – $29/month
• Speechify – $11.58/month
• Synthesia – AI video generation

AI for Live Conversations

• ChatGPT
• Gemini Live
• Sesame Demo

Commercial Language Learning Sites

• Assimil
• Babbel: grammar practice
• Busuu: grammar & exchange
• ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode
• ConversationExchange
• DuoLingo
• FSI Courses
• Glossika
• HelloTalk
• iTalki
• Journaly: writing practice, $3.50/month
• Jumpspeak: AI-based, focused on speaking
• Language-Exchanges.org
• LanguagePod101
• LanguaTalk (YouTube intro)
• Lingoda
• Mango Languages
• Memrise: vocab & grammar
• Mondly
• MyLanguageExchange
• Pimsleur
• Preply
• Rocket Languages
• Rosetta Stone
• SpeakPal: AI-based
• Speaky
• TalkPal: AI-based
• Tandem
• Teacher AI (Xiaoma): AI-based language tutor

Corpora

• Sketch Engine

Flashcards

• Anki (Download)
• Pauker

Listening Resources

• NotebookLM: For a discussion of how to use this for listening practice, see Steve Kaufman's YouTube video or Russell Stannard's YouTube video

Pronunciation

• Forvo: word recordings: word recordings
• RhinoSpike: sentence recordings

Research Tools

• Avidnote
• Jenni – generates outline
• PaperPal – outline, proofreading, paraphrasing
• Research Rabbit
• Scispace: all-in-one tool

Search Tools for Sentences

• Linguee
• Reverso Context
• Tatoeba

Transcription Services

• TurboScribe: $10/month

TV- and Movie-Based Language Sites

• FluentU: $12/month
• Language Reactor – $5/month advanced
• Lingopie – dual subtitles
• LingQ – learn from content
• Mubi – art-house films

University Courses

• MIT OpenCourseWare

VR Chat Platforms

• Resonite
• VR Chat