Learn a new language the same way you learned your native tongue

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With videos of common, useful phrases spoken by native speakers in 22 different languages, this app makes the learning process easy and fun.
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Lots of us have made the commitment to learn a new language, only to watch it fall by the wayside. Unless you’re fully immersed and have plenty of free time, it’s usually not as easy to learn a second (or third) language as it was to learn the first.

The Memrise Language Learning app aims to make it far easier to earn additional languages, using a three-step approach that mimics the way you mastered your native tongue. At the heart of the app are video clips featuring native speakers, who demonstrate all the subtleties of phrasing and tone that carry as much information as the words themselves.

Watching and listening to others is how we learn language early in life, so it’s a process we all have experience with already. This app hits you with common, useful words and phrases, naturally voiced audio and video clips, and flexible grammar rules.

Memrise also gives you a customized learning path, with just the right level of difficulty, so you stay motivated and progress faster. You can choose from 22 languages, set daily goals and learning reminders, even join leaderboards for some friendly competition and motivation. And it works on iOS, Mac, Android and PC.

In short, it makes learning a new language easy — and even fun.

Buy now: Get a lifetime subscription to Memrise Language Learning for $99.99. That’s 28% off the usual price.

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