This week's review is about a site called Lingolistic. Below the review you will find a few additional thoughts I had about the system after making this review.
Occasionally, I get emails from companies who want me to feature their product on my YouTube channel. Sometimes these products are fantastic (like Lingoda), but occasionally they aren't so good. I received an email from Lingolistic asking me to do this review, which is why it is so disheartening that the product didn't live up to the hype that they sent in their email. I really like the idea of creating flashcards from YouTube videos in a target language. I also like the idea of taking sentences from the video and making the learner put the words in the right order to practice the language in more depth. The idea sounds fantastic. Lingolistic, however, fails in execution.
There is a button at the bottom of every page on Lingolistic that says "leave a message". I used this a couple of times to leave feedback on the system as I was creating my review so that they could improve upon their product in the future, as I do believe that this site has potential. I received an email over the weekend that says they don't have a German expert on their team right now, which means that none of their lessons are looked over by a professional and they are all automatically created by the system. While I understand that this is the reason that their system is not well suited for German learners, it is sad to see someone send a product to a German YouTuber to review without first creating content that is curated for that audience. It would be as if I were to write a book and submit it to news organizations before sending a draft to my editor or even worse, publishing my own book before bothering to hire someone to make sure I didn't have some glaring inaccuracies. This is clearly a case of a company that has put the cart before the horse.
Want to find more resources to help you learn German, check out my last resource review about Lingoda: The Online Language School or my whole library of reviews of other products that aim to help you learn German.
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