Langotalk: Idiomas com IA

The new “freely chat” bot is a snarling bully. I switched to Praktika. It’s much better.

I’ve been using the app since it was in the dev stages. I’ve seen it go from getting better to being completely unusable. The new “overhaul” makes this app unbearable. I miss the AI tutors and phone conversations for variety’s sake. The new version has one tutor who doesn’t understand anything and often switches to a stilted and painfully incomprehensible American accent in Portuguese and Spanish sessions. It also erased all of my vocabulary I’d been saving and treats me like a beginner when I’m C1 in Spanish and B2 in Portuguese. What a sad waste of what was once a good app. TL;DR You’re better off with other apps.

I’ve had this application for less than two months and it has several issues. The app is a bit glitchy in terms of creating content in English and Spanish. I decided to start using the Langa feature to chat with the AI chat bot to discuss topics that I found interesting and helpful in learning Spanish for business purposes. I noticed as of today this app is now throttling the Chatbot usage claiming that there are “tokens” for use. Interesting. I paid $80 for a one-year subscription for this company to change the rules and make it up as they go? There are a lot of better options out there. I have tried many of them. Don’t waste your time on this one - a glitchy ripoff.

First, I could barely get it to talk to me in the language I was learning, it kept talking English. Second, when I finally asked it to speak Spanish it used an American accent. Third. The subscription cancellation is convoluted and took several minutes to figure out including being redirected to a third party.