I have been using drops for over 2…
I have been using drops for over 2 years now and luckily signed up for lifetime membership at the time with good price. It has been a useful vocabulary building app overall, but definitely not helping to actually speak. Good addition to other methods of learning.
Main issues with this app for me is the quiz mode which makes little sense and I never do it, but I have no way to switch it off so it's just annoying page after each session.
The language voyage which is meant to help guide learning but why is it putting certain modules together from beginner to advanced again makes no sense. I started learning another language from zero and after doing starter pack, an option was the numbers. All of the numbers. Why??? So I find it very unhelpful.
The general suggestions of next modules also very very unhelpful. You start with beginners one and it suggests you intermediate or advanced ones next which have such specific vocabulary, instead of actually helping to build basic vocabulary. I have been ignoring those and just looking through the categories to ensure I've done all beginners ones and then moving one, or looking for a word I want to learn and going to that module.
The app is also definitely missing some key vocabulary. There have been many glitches along the way also of audio and text not matching up, and initially I wasn't able to submit the reports either. This seems to work now.
I also find it frustrating that when I hide words that I am very confident I know well and truly, it then deducts it from your learned word bank. Could really do with a long term word bank instead of the hiding of ridiculous terms you just don't want to study.
Whilst the spaced repetition is useful, I find it increasingly difficult to learn new vocabulary with the reviews adding up to over 100 words nearly every day, which is why I started hiding vocabulary I don't need revising.
I got very excited when I got an email saying there's an audio only mode now, which I never saw. Only yesterday did I realise when having started my 5th language on the app, that it is only available for some languages. Just none of the ones I've been learning so far..... And tbh, it is not that great. I didn't know what they wanted to convey by it, but it just reads out the vocabulary with time in between to say it out loud.
The challenges is another aspect which is meant to be motivating but I find them quite pointless personal. Especially when they're about completing a module you've already completed so it would need to be reset to do again.
So overall, it's a good additional tool for language learning, but not as standalone way to get going with a language.
28 juillet 2024
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