Penpal, Sylvi 12+
Language penpal in your pocket
Sylvi Ltd
Designed for iPad
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
You don’t need a teacher to learn a language. Just a penpal.
Become fluent in conversation in six months.
Text Sylvi.
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Sylvi currently supports:
French, German. Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
with the following languages on the way:
Dutch, Russian, Chinese (Simplified Mandarin), Japanese, Korean, English
What’s New
Version 1.1.22
Release Notes - v1.1.22
- Added voice note functionality
- Users can now send voice notes in Tutor, Penpal, and Social chats
- Implemented Quick Access section on home page reorganization
- Added FAQ section to menu
- Added feedback popup feature
- Introduced edit button for My Words
Ratings and Reviews
Pretty good
I don’t have the talent to know whether the app is 100% correct in its teaching, but the AI here is well designed. The “teaching” happens as chat bots continuously ask you questions. It almost feels like a therapy session at times, which isn’t a bad thing but sometimes feels less casual and conversational as a result.
There are two learning modes. There is a straight-up tutorial bot that coaches based on your questions or generates prompts to practice with. The other bots engage in discussion topics randomly generated based on loose profiles like “casual” or “flirty.” I haven’t tried flirty, as you need gems to unlock that over time, but the casual bot feels like a polite person you could be acquaintances with IRL.
Overall, I think it’s a good supplement to users of Duolingo and other independent learning methods. Sylvi isn’t really a gamified app (yet) despite the presence of leaderboards, and I’m hoping it doesn’t adopt too much of that mentality. Duolingo has been key to my learning a lot of words and conjugations, but it lacks the contextualized learning people acquire from conversations; that’s where Sylvi excels. As an Intermediate learner, it’s nice to converse at my own pace in order to generate complicated sentences.
As far as improvements, a Dark Mode would be nice.
The best way to learn a language!!
I have never written a review for an app before but after discovering Sylvi I feel like I need to write a review! This app is a game changer for those who are actually trying to learn a language and become fluent! This app implements most of the things you need to learn a language like verbs, pronunciation, spelling, grammar, and even basic lessons that are a great foundation! Sylvi implements all these aspect and puts them into real conversation through texting! My Spanish improved so so much just after a couple of weeks! it’s insane how fast you can pick up a language when the methods of learning are immersive and realistic instead of just the memorisation of random words! This app is such an amazing first step to speaking a language fluently with locals and understanding the fundamentals of the language! Highly recommend, best thing I ever did for my Spanish!
WOW WOW WOOWWW!
Let me start by saying I never have written an app review and I am a real 22 year old girl from Texas trying to learn Spanish. I have spent years trying to find an app where I can practice actual communication and conversations, not just learning vocabulary and building up sentence structures. Sylvi has given me the chance to practice exactly how I speak to my in laws and gives me feedback on how to correct it and provides an explanation to WHY the changes were made. I am so happy to have found this app.
App Privacy
The developer, Sylvi Ltd, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Used to Track You
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Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Identifiers
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- Contact Info
- Contacts
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
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Information
- Seller
- Sylvi Ltd
- Size
- 61.5 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 13.4 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 13.4 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 13.4 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 12+ Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes Frequent/Intense Contests
- Copyright
- © 2023 Sylvi Ltd
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Sylvi Pro (Monthly) $6.99
- Sylvi Lite (Monthly) $2.99
- Sylvi Lite (Annual) $23.99
- Sylvi Pro (Monthly) $6.99
- Sylvi Lite (Monthly) $2.99
- Sylvi Pro (Annual) $59.99
- Sylvi Pro (Annual) $59.99
- Sylvi Lite (Annual) $23.99
- Sylvi Pro (Monthly) $14.99
- Sylvi Lite (Annual) $35.99