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Mait Muntel

Lingvist - Take your language skills to the next level

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Lingvist uses machine learning to adapt to you based on what you know and to level-up your language learning power with trackable progress. Try it today and boost your knowledge! Learn French, Spanish, German, Russian – or English from one of 12 different languages.

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Mait Muntel
The App Guy Podcast - 302 : Lucas Gordon of ProductRank
Maker
Hey there Product Hunt! I started Lingvist while I was working on the Higgs team at CERN. I had tried all sorts of ways to learn French - online and offline and everything was too slow. So I designed an adaptive algorithm to help myself learn French. It worked. After 200 hours of study, I went back and took the Estonian school exam in French and passed it. After that, I realised this was a huge opportunity and that's where the company started. We came through Techstars in London last year and are now releasing new languages, announcing some new EU funding and launching our mobile apps for iOS and Android to make our mission of making language learning faster even more accessible for people! Would love to hear what you think, thanks :)
Ihor Stefurak
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@mait_muntel hi. Where can i find the app for learning English?
Mait Muntel
The App Guy Podcast - 302 : Lucas Gordon of ProductRank
Maker
Hey Igor. You can start learning English with Lingvist by going to the main Menu of the app, click on the flag icons and then add a new language. There you can select to learn English from either French or Russian. Good luck!
Moshe Cotacallapa
@mait_muntel Awesome app. Congratulations!
Erik Torenberg
Backchannel
@mait_muntel what do you think of tim ferriss approach to learning languages?
Mait Muntel
The App Guy Podcast - 302 : Lucas Gordon of ProductRank
Maker
@eriktorenberg His principles - effectiveness, adherence, and efficiency are very well aligned with Lingvist. Our vision is to build a product that will use personal interest for adherence and generate learning priorities based on that. It's very close to Tim Ferriss's approach. The only difference is that he has an approach, but we're making it a full product to help people to follow this approach. Especially the last principle - efficiency! The fully adaptive algorithms are used in Lingvist to make learning personnally effective.
Siim Teller
I need German, please :)
eamonncarey
Hired Goons
Maker
@teller coming soon. Or should I say demnächst
Mait Muntel
The App Guy Podcast - 302 : Lucas Gordon of ProductRank
Maker
To follow up with good news, we are also proud and delighted to announce €1.6m in EU funding to help scale our product and offer more languages sets to our users!
Martin McGloin
@mait_muntel Thanks for creating Lingvist - a great product! I know you hail from Estonia - any chance that this funding will be used for an English -> Estonian version to allow ever more people to learn this fascinating Uralic language beautifully? Aitäh!
Mait Muntel
The App Guy Podcast - 302 : Lucas Gordon of ProductRank
Maker
@martinmcgloin Tere, Martin! English > Estonian version is obviously close to our own hearts. We'd love to do it at some point!
Rostislav
@mait_muntel This is a great tool to brush up on my French! It is so frictionless! What other languages are in your sights? Any roadmap and if not do you have anything like a blog so one can keep up with what the company is up to?
Ray Curran
Hunt Pokemon
Any idea on the timeline for the English > Spanish version?
Mini John™
Beautiful Design & really responsive !!
Manasvini Krishna
Boss as a Service
I tried this a few months ago to learn French, and really liked it!
Tyler Rollins
Great simple way to learn languages. What is your opinion on the virtual immersion approach? E.g photos of situations rather than words in the native language. Look forward to practicing my French with this!
Mait Muntel
The App Guy Podcast - 302 : Lucas Gordon of ProductRank
Maker
@tycrollins Thanks, Tyler! I think everyone should use techniques that work best for them. But virtual immersion without any support structure is maybe spreading it too thin. Photos help learn a handful of words, but as soon as you get to more complex stuff, abstract words and ideas, photos won't cut it anymore. A good command of language requires a lot of abstract, nuanced vocabulary.
Wilbert Kramer
Triominos – Triangular Domino Multi-Player
Great app! Dutch > Spanish or English > Spanish will be appreciated!
eamonncarey
Hired Goons
Maker
@wilbertkramer watch this space. ;)
Joshua Ooi
You've got my vote if you're working on Chinese :P Looks like a slick tool to learn a new language :)
Sam Cambridge
Quuu
This is unreal, so intuitive.. the design is immense. Finally a product that can keep me engaged enough to learn a language! My partner will love this too, can't wait to get the spanish/swedish languages on there.
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