Kaizen Languages - AI Tutors Reviews

I use KaizenLanguages in addition to several others, Kaizen is probably my least favorite. You have to pay to really do anything in KaizenLanguages which is fine if you're serious about learning, but the further you get in the lessons the more I've seen typos from incorrect words, genders, spellings & even KaizenLanguages marking things as incorrect that are not.
It would be better if there was a way to "report" such as Duolingo has when you come across errors within KaizenLanguages . I can only imagine how many people have seen these errors and taken them to be true. One lesson I saw どけい being translated as clock when it is in fact とけい. When using the word "father" the speakers constantly referred to father as "she" among other errors. Lastly, the hints/suggestions it gives you for responses are very restrictive and leave little room for you to practice outside of exactly what they want you to write. KaizenLanguages is definitely helpful for learning but I wouldn't use it as my only method for learning Japanese. Bunpo is great for people looking for something other than Kaizen to learn.

Correct answers, including sentences from the suggestions, are frequently randomly marked as wrong, often causing loops that make lessons unfinishable. Lessons sometimes hang, forcing you to restart them. While some activities give you some word choices (such as different colours and names), others only allow you to say a very specific sentence (e.g. 'I hate dancing' or 'I don't like singing') which may be very different than how you actually feel about the topic. In some activities, KaizenLanguages marks gramatically correct first-person Spanish sentences as wrong when you omit 'Yo.' The English translations of both Spanish and Japanese phrases also have several misspellings and sometimes wrong grammar. The streak randomly goes down to 0 even when you meet your daily goal the previous day. The customer service takes too long to respond, sometimes forgetting to do so altogether. I have sent feedback regarding the streak problems and the team has kindly but unsuccessfully attempted to fix my streak three times. I do not recommend KaizenLanguages for learning Spanish and/or Japanese.

KaizenLanguages is great with all the interactive chats and writing but the only 3 lessons a day is unreasonable. I understand that you can’t just give away free lessons but it would be great if you can at least make the flash cards and the lessons you already did unlimited. It makes sense to make new lessons and writings limited to 3 times a day unless you purchase premium, but the flashcards and the already completed lessons should be unlimited.
Please consider doing that for people will be more likely to keep KaizenLanguages

Approachable, helpful lessons that generally are pretty cumulative and well designed. Unfortunately it’s extremely glitchy and crashes constantly, gets stuck in loops, the audio processing will say you’re wrong even if you pronounce things perfectly (I once recorded the set phrase being said by KaizenLanguages and played it back to it and it said it was wrong!), will give corrections and suggestions for other parts of other conversations or dialogue options, or won’t show the vocab word options so you have to use a separate app/program to look up or translate things ready.

I have been learning from it, but the level of technical dysfunction is crazy for a paid subscription service no matter how good the actual content is so I’ll likely be unsubscribing after this first month. The lessons are absolutely worth the $8 a month, but only if they work!

I really like KaizenLanguages because I don’t have a lot of opportunities to practice speaking Japanese. After answering a couple questions at the start I was placed at Level 2, and understood the first conversation prompt fine, but was prompted to introduce myself with my name. My name is Sam, but it comes across as さん, which gives an error because you shouldn’t use honorifics for yourself, or it comes across as さん like the number 3, and saying さむ turns into the kanji 寒, meaning cold. It kind of defeats the point of KaizenLanguages if I have to type in order to input my name.
Edit: after testing typing in variations of サン and サム, those don’t work either. It’s frustrating that it’s very limited, the only option being the name Jon. It’d make more sense having some options to pick from when you first download KaizenLanguages or an option to add your name in katakana so that KaizenLanguages recognizes it.

I use KaizenLanguages and LingoDeer together since it’s hard getting proper language practice with just one app. KaizenLanguages teaches you written Japanese which is not how it’s spoken. I don’t know if maybe this is noted later or not. I also noticed some answers it would not take even though it was correct. For example, it wanted me to say “私は田中です。” and I did but I wrote the name in hiragana. It kept telling me that sentence was wrong. This has happened more than once and is a bit annoying. Anyone who has been forced to use an online math program knows this pain. There are also times where it asks you to make a sentence like “私の父は____さいです。” and then do another one for a different family member. It then immediately says you are wrong because it wanted the father sentence again. If it doesn’t get fixed I will most likely delete KaizenLanguages .

I’m using this in conjunction with Pimsleur, Duolingo, and Tae Kim. I love the learning features of KaizenLanguages, especially for learning to text quickly. It’s great for reading/writing skill building. My one complaint is that my progress streak always shows one day, even though I’ve used it daily for a while.

It’s good for a first time use, until you find out that you have to pay to learn a language. Right now I’m trying to learn Japanese bad Korean, but sadly Korean is not in the list of things you can learn on KaizenLanguages. It’s complicated to have to pay for something like educational things and to be honest it’s kinda upsetting that I need to pay to learn a new language. I’m not saying that you should download KaizenLanguages but just know that you have to pay 7.99 monthly just to learn something new. You most likely would be better off using Duolingo if you can’t afford to pay monthly

I feel like must be missing something obvious but in my flash cards it says I have 160 “learning”, 96 “ready”, and 0 “mastered”. I’ve done these flash cards dozens of times now, and the numbers don’t change. How do I get those other 96? How do I “master” them?

Otherwise I love KaizenLanguages so far. Sometimes I feel like the speaking exercises get too complex too quickly though. It would be cool if the flash cards had a speaking component where you just say the one word/phrase and it grades your pronunciation.

The idea of KaizenLanguages is amazing it takes a different route than other apps if you don’t know one part you can definitely do the other for example if you know what The answer is you can spell or pronounce it either way you’re learning the best approach that you want it’s just the audio doesn’t work sometimes even though I delete KaizenLanguages and re-download it i’m a very audio person so this really doesn’t help with pronunciation but if they fixed his bug I’m sure it would be perfect app

I am glad there are free lessons because KaizenLanguages needs some serious fixes before I would be willing to pay. Often the “teacher” will tell you a kanji word even though your settings are hiragana and there’s no way for you to know how to spell it. This needs to get fixed.
Also MANY TIMES you will type the answer exactly correct and it will tell you that you are wrong and give a reason why that has nothing to do with what you said. Which is baffling.
Basically KaizenLanguages concept is good.
The execution is bad.

This is a really great app. The best for language learning I’ve ever used. The only problem is that there is a bug/glitch where KaizenLanguages hears me correctly but doesn’t register what I said as being correct, even though it’s the exact thing it told me to say. They I have to close KaizenLanguages and leave it for a while then hope it works when I try again. It’s really random.

Worked wonderfully until I subscribed then suddenly even though it correctly types what I say in the text box as I say it the instructor never understands what I’m saying. I have taken years of classes I am positive this is the programs fault especially given it writes what I say correctly then fails me.

Update mizuke inoue 10/12 says please ask to buy this item. When you answer it corrects you and says try asking how much the item is. When you answer it shows the original question about purchasing. What is the answer you’re looking for here?

I like the concept but there are more simpler ways to say things. Like to say what country are you from, it gives a really long phrase when you can just say, “kuni wa”, or “Doko Kara desu ka.” Also it has only phone support which means it is really small on an ipad and u can’t use it horizontally. However I do like this concept.

Also I just realized, that this uses written Japanese. For example it says “watashi ha,” that is how you are supposed to write it but to say it, you’re suppose to say “watashi wa.”

I am planning on being a transfer student in about two years and may I just say KaizenLanguages has already helped me so much in learning Japanese I have tried other apps and they just could not fit my learning style but this gets a 10/10

Imma be straight to the point. I love KaizenLanguages , when it works it is the best app for learning Japanese out there. But…the lessons break a lot. I’m still working with Mizuki and the Nationalities lesson just won’t let me get past saying my own nationality. At first I thought I was spelling it wrong but it’s just not even accepting anything I put. Even when I put in the exact recommendation or when I type it in the romaji translation it still just asks me say it again.

I’ve bought the yearly pass. I was excited to reintroduce myself back into learning Japanese again. But it keeps crashing. I will make a written log soon. I really hope this can be fixed because I love the style this is done in. It is rejoicing my mind a lot and understands my dialect really well. Good luck programmers for our sake as much as yours.

This is a very good app, it has amazingly surprised me how awesome KaizenLanguages is. KaizenLanguages is not like any other, and its nothing compared to Dalingo. That is because Kaizen some how makes things way more memorable, based off the voices. That may not make any sense, but I do highly recommend KaizenLanguages to learn different language. So far I have started Japanese and it’s starting off great!!😮‍💨

I’ve been using KaizenLanguages (since I paid for it by accident and apple wont give me my money back) and it does need some work. In the Professions lesson, they ask you to reply “no or 家“ but when you reply with that, the answer is wrong and wants you to reply with yes. Also when adding -San to someone’s name like “Takahashi-San” it automatically replaces San with the number 3 making your answer automatically incorrect. It’s a cool idea, but KaizenLanguages needs some work...

I’m using KaizenLanguages so I can prepare for my Japanese Course. I’m a lil anxious and might be over thinking it, which is why. I downloaded KaizenLanguages. It is very helpful though I wish I could do more lessons , and not 2 a day. And well I can’t really pay for a subscription, I’m a teen sooooo, it is very helpful though

So far I really like KaizenLanguages . I’ve tried a few language apps and I like the fact that this one allows the learner to interact with the AI bot and corrects your pronunciation. So far I only see 50 lessons (each lesson is pretty short) and only 1 language. I think KaizenLanguages would be a lot more powerful with more lessons and languages added.

I’m not particularly fond of the way KaizenLanguages functions, the lessons are the same each time but the Flashcards are totally different. It’s feels very rigid with the speaking because you can only respond with a certain set of answers. It’s a GREAT idea but for me it needs some buffing.

I made an account today, and after two lessons you have to pay to continue learning. I have tried to figure out how to delete my account, and it is not clear on how to do so. I checked their website and it says to “Navigate to the Settings/Account Page in KaizenLanguages . And scroll to the bottom and select delete.” I have tried to do this, but the problem is that there is no button to delete the account. So I’m wondering how to delete my account.

I really love this way of learning, however, I saw KaizenLanguages on an ad and it said to be able to learn all kinds of languages. I wanted to use KaizenLanguages to learn Korean but that isn’t an option. Sadly you cannot change what language you want to learn :(. Still really good app, but I am no longer learning Japanese

Super fun and easy and I have to admit it works because most apps don’t make you feel like your in an actual conversation so it gives it an edge that helps you in a different context.

They will say I have a wrong answer when it is obviously correct. For example, I would write a sentence in Japanese and they said it was wrong because The sentence wasn’t supposed to be in a question form with ‘ka’ at the end of the sentence. But, I did not have a ‘ka’ at the end of the sentence. There were a few other things they marked me wrong and I was in fact correct.

This ad is very useful if you need help with Japanese! this is the right app to get! If you mess up on pronouncing something it tells you what you did wrong and how to pronounce it.

Ie been studying for at least a month and I’ve been learning a lot. I have a Japanese friends and I have full on conversations in Japanese... I recommend it soooo much

I really dont understand how KaizenLanguages has this many stars, within the first lesson it told me i mis-spelled a word in hiragana (but i was using kanji, and it was correct.) A sentence later marked my answer as incorrect because I used a different verb form from what they expected, when it was a more accurate sentence. Impossible to know how it wants you to respond exactly, so impossible to learn with. Instantly deleted.