The Best Apps to learn English on Android

Learning English is something really necessary today, both for professional and personal life. Mastering the language of Shakespeare is often used to qualify for a job, a requirement in many companies, and to be able to communicate with other people or read certain instructions that are not translated into Spanish.

It takes a lot of time, learning and practice to learn a language, and sometimes it is quite difficult to get a hole out of our busy schedule. However, thanks to mobile phones, we can learn a language anywhere and at any time. There are a large number of applications to learn English, and not only English but other languages ​​such as French, German, Italian, Japanese, or Chinese, which serve to expand vocabulary, practice grammar, or improve pronunciation. Let’s see them!

Learn English with your mobile with these apps

• Duolingo
• Cake
• TinyCards
• Babbel
• Busuu
• Voxy
• Elsa
• Memrise

It doesn’t matter what your preferred way of learning new languages ​​is. Thanks to these applications, you can learn English in an effective, simple, and entertaining way using only your mobile or tablet.

Duolingo

Duolingo is possibly the best-rated and most famous English learning app on Google Play. Its high score by users is due to the accessibility of the lessons, which combine vocabulary with reading, listening, and grammar and are simple and entertaining. Based on mini-games or surveys, you can learn and master English without leaving the sofa. In addition, you can also learn German, French, Russian, or Turkish, among many other languages.

Cake

As you can see in the video above, Cake is based on short videos ideal for improving our conversation skills. It focuses on teaching everyday phrases and expressions, updating its videos and resources daily, so learning English with this app is very enjoyable and practical. With a very good rating on Google Play, Cake is ideal for improving pronunciation and “loosening up” a little more when speaking the language of Shakespeare.

TinyCards

Many think that playing is also a way of learning. And this is what TinyCards proposes, an app developed by Duolingo, which uses a spaced repetition system and other intelligent learning techniques to help the user remember new terms. Based on flashcards, the application not only serves to learn languages, but it also helps to memorize vocabulary, chemical elements, world capitals, history, or anatomy, among many other topics.

Babbel

Babbel is a good application to learn and improve our level of English. It has a method similar to Duolingo, in which the lessons last around 10 or 15 minutes to facilitate its use in any free space on our agenda. The subject focuses on topics and dialogues of everyday life. The user acquires a wide variety of vocabulary and can formulate useful phrases in their day-to-day life. The application is free to download but to access all the content, you have to pay 9.95 euros per month.

Busuu

An old acquaintance to Android users. Busuu supports learning with varied exercises on pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, and conversation. It currently has more than 80 million users, allows obtaining official certificates and interacting with other native speakers, to whom the exercises can be sent so that they can be corrected back. Starting to study with the application is free, but to unlock everything, you have to pay a monthly fee of 9.99 euros or 2.71 euros if you pay for the entire year. According to its creators, Busuu can help us learn English through exercises that are only 10 minutes long.

Voxy

Voxy is an application designed especially for those preparing to obtain a certificate of English level. It offers online help with native tutors and lessons to improve pronunciation or fluency in conversation in record time.

The company behind the platform indicates that, instead of teaching irrelevant phrases, content is offered in English updated daily, which will really serve as being based on relevant contexts in people’s daily lives.

Elsa

An application focused on people who have a medium level of English but who want to improve their language skills. Elsa is like a personal trainer that will help you improve your pronunciation thanks to a database of more than 2,000 words and expressions in English.

The idea is to repeat them with our voice until we achieve the correct pronunciation, thanks to the different hints and tips that the app offers us, and then compare the sound you have made with the one you should have achieved. It is a free application for seven days; then, you have to pay a monthly fee of 4.29 euros.

Memrise

The novelty of this application, one of the best valued by the community, is to offer courses prepared by the members of the community themselves. The way of learning is based on a system of letters that help to memorize vocabulary through mnemonic tricks, with a wide variety of games, chatbots, and more than 30,000 videos of native speakers. As learning progresses, points are obtained and compete with other users.

It is worth commenting, in addition, that the application was awarded the prize for the best app of 2017 in the Google I / O, and today it has the seal of “Editors’ selection” from Google Play, among other things, for its great design and ease of use.

Google Play | Memrise

As you can see, there are many applications to learn English –or any other language– without having to go to an academy or school, and mobile phones have become a great tool to improve our academic training.