Ling Ling Français – Learn French in Just 10 months

Ling Ling Français is a free app developed by Hepilabs - that claims it will be able to teach French in 10 months. Well when I saw that bit, I couldn’t resist downloading it from the Google PLAY Store - I’ve been trying to learn French for years! Here are my thoughts on using the app for a few days.

Don’t be fooled by the app’s appearance though childish, it’s by far one of the most useful apps I’ve come across in a long time. Before you start, you have to pick the language you want to use to learn French and difficulty level. There are a wide range of Languages and three difficulty levels; beginner, intermediate and expert. I chose English for my Language and beginner for the difficulty setting (better safe than sorry) which took me to the very colourful title screen. To start your first lesson you tap the purple light bulb icon.

Ling Ling Francais - Main Menu

First Lesson

At first I was overwhelmed by the amount of words I don’t know and felt almost inadequate as I pressed the red button frantically. You press the red button when you’re unfamiliar with a word and the green button when you’ve memorised it. You can tap the French word to hear it pronunciation aloud. The app allows you to practice new French words over and over again with the audio prompting and soon you start to get it. You gleefully feel the words becoming second nature and the Ling Ling character on the screen does a little dance to celebrate with you as you make progress.

Ling Ling Francais - Lesson

Pop Quiz

Once you’ve ticked off all the words it’s time for a quiz. The quiz starts off quite slow but gradually increases from snail slow to how do you stop this thing! You have to match each word in your chosen language to the correct word in French. The quiz is based on the words you learn in the lesson and each day after a new lesson another 25 words (which you’ve just learned) are added to the quiz. When you get aconsecutive amount of answers right, you are rewarded with one of five very silly mini games.

Ling Ling Francais - Quiz

Here’s a quick warning for those of you who found Fruit Ninja unnerving, there’s cartoon violence against fruits i.e. smashing them to smithereens.

Ling Ling Francais - Mini Game

Extras

If you get bored, there’s a section that allows youto edit your Ling Ling character. You can also create a Ling Ling inspired wallpaper for your device here’s mine.

Ling Ling Franceis - Wallpaper

Conclusion

Overall I found the app quite educational and surprisingly also very entertaining. It makes learning a new language so much fun. There are other languages in the Ling Ling genre; Spanish, Chinese and so much more. I love the fact there’s a reminder in your notification bar everyday so it makes it harder to procrastinate. 

The audio prompts not only help you to remember the words but also teach you how to pronounce them. I’m also learning at an accelerated pace of 25 words a day. The quiz allows you to practice words and their meanings as many times as you would like in a day.I also find it important to point out that the quiz lets you practice all the words you’ve learned since you started using the app in addition to the words you learn each day. I wish the app would let you focus on the 25 words for the day before adding in the ones you’ve already been memorizing.
 

Overall it is a great app and I would definitely recommend it to a friend.  As for the ten months claim, it could be plausible but probably only if you use the app every single day quite studiously. Ling Ling Français is available for download now at the Google PLAY Store.