In any case, I immediately decided to try out the Ling app’s Albanian course. I credit this in part to a degree of laziness on my end, but also to a lack of engaging study resources in the language. I’ve been living in Albania for more than six months and have reached sort of a plateau with my abilities in the language, having only picked up some functional basics.

I was thrilled to see how many languages are available on Ling, especially to see that they offer an Albanian course. Visit Ling My Experience Learning with Ling The resources that are available aren’t usually very much fun to use.Īn app like Ling, animated and gamified with native speaker audio, feels downright luxurious for some languages.Īs is usually the case, though, the double-edged sword that is a massive language library is also the likely source of what I think are some of the app’s major shortcomings. For a lot of the languages you can study on Ling, there just aren’t many great options out there for self-study. The variety of language courses is actually the app’s biggest strength in my opinion. They’ve also developed fun projects like a Truth or Dare app and a Never Have I Ever app. The large pool of language-learning apps that leverage gamification in their courses is continually growing, and frankly, I’m happy about it.ĭeveloped by Simya Solutions, Ling is a language-learning app that provides gamified practice in more than 60 different languages.

Ling & ting share a birthday