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Practical answers for adults learning Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese or Russian: which app to pick, how to keep what a tutor teaches you, and how to review so the words stay.

Which app or method should you pick?

Start here if you haven't committed to anything yet. Each one names who should pick something else.

How do you keep what a lesson teaches you?

For people who already pay a tutor, on italki, Preply or anywhere else, and lose most of it by the next lesson.

How should you review?

Spaced repetition explained without the jargon, and the one alphabet on the site that needs learning before any words.

Flashcards, one language at a time

What cards cost in each language, in money and in hours, and where the words should come from.

Looking for a head-to-head between two apps? Those are on the comparisons page. The research behind every claim is on the science page.