best language learning app for people who are not language noobs

Post date: 2020-03-27 07:37:15

I'd like to work on one or the other of the languages I've gotten a start on but haven't gotten good at. I've tried this and that.

I believe the only real way to work on languages is with interaction, but meanwhile I'd like to do what I can sitting at home. In the past (since becoming not a student and not easily able to take classes) I have used

-Rosetta Stone. Hated it. Moves very very slowly and, as far as I got with it, didn't discuss grammar ever.
-Pimsleur. Had fun with it though it's formulaic and spends a lot of time on topics that don't interest me. Also absolutely never explains anything about grammar or pronunciation.

Maybe that's all. I definitely get the benefit of focusing on competence rather than memorized info about structure, but sometimes with both of those systems I'd want to say "ok, but could you at least tell me why the ending changed so I have some idea what's going on?"

This is rambly but basically I'm wondering what app people who consider themselves ok at languages (say, people who have studied more than one for example? and understand that an app that says it will teach you Spanish in three weeks is lying?) have found productive and enjoyable. Thanks!

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