Umi - Language Learning Reviews

I’m so impressed with this application. I’ve gotten to the point where I am interested in challenging myself with listening input. As a beginner, it can feel difficult to find comprehensible audio with Japanese subtitles. this app takes the best of Duolingo (the gamification for those that like it, a clear pathway and wonder UI) and improves upon it.

My only suggestion would be maybe making furigana toggle-able for memorized words? To elaborate, I think I think it would be nice if I furigana didn’t have to be all off or all on. Words with kanji that have been reviewed and memorized can have furigana off to help with reading comprehension without the furigana support.

The developers are doing a wonderful job. I have extremely high hopes for the future of Umi and team.

To find a gem is hard when it comes to language learning apps. Some of them, especially that little green bird, get so much hype online and I’m not too much of a fan of the popular apps so it’s nice to find apps like Immersely that tries to do something a little different. The videos are cool( reminds of Memrise, which is another good app for the same reason) I really like the feature to slow down the videos and how the audio isn’t effected with a robotic or echo-y voice, it helps a lot because I can still understand the audio in the videos. Hopefully Korean is on the way, that’s another language I’m learning atm

I am currently learning German on the this app app and really have to say that this is definitely the most fun app there is when it comes to learning vocabulary. It uses vocabulary words in context of clips from shows and movies in actual spoken dialogue that actual makes it stay in my long term memory. this app has quickly become my favorite language app when it comes to vocabulary and my every day language learning. Thank you this app!

Hey there, I’m studying Japanese at school momentarily and coming from Duolingo. Umi is brilliant and helps my comprehension so much with the real-life scenarios, which was my greatest weakness tenfold. Just wanted to give my appreciation and one small recommendation. I think practicing with these clips is great, but as a sort of large scale practice, I think there could be somewhere in app with full film recommendations for different levels. Just a thought, love Umi !

Umi is a great way to learn new languages such as Japanese. It’s been very fun listening to clips from various shows and movies. Umi helps you learn a lot of colloquial phrases and slang as well as the formal definitions of words/phrases.

The user interface is easy to use, and Umi helps you learn Kanji quickly.

The developers are very nice and very quick to respond to feedback. They fixed an issue I noticed super quick! 速い (hayai)!

Very well constructed app for retaining vocabulary. My one complaint is that it appears you can't save the root words to your dictionary, rather than just the conjugated version that's underlined in the audio scripts. For example, I can save the word 騙せません to my dictionary but cannot simply save the word 騙す which I would highly prefer. Hopefully this can be resolved in the future.

Umi is very different from other apps teaching language. I love that Umi introduces you to language as it is spoken right away through really interesting film and video clips. It’s very engaging and very fun. I also like the fact that you get introduced to the way languages actually spoken right away, so that you feel immediately immersed in the language and culture.

I don’t think I’ve ever written a review before! Out of all the apps that I tried for language, this one has been very good at helping me remember things contextually. Instead of just learning things on their own, it makes things much more interesting to see them in a bite-size piece of media.

Language learning features actually quite impressive. Used to be able to use it for free with ads. The ads were completely reasonable considering it was free, and they offered premium plan if you wanted no ads, which is fair. Then it became only one free lesson a day unless you had premium. Now it seems I can’t do any lessons at all unless I buy premium. And they are asking too much for the premium plan. Not a bad app if you can afford it, but I honestly don’t think it’s worth the money when there are so many free and cheaper options out there.

I can’t say enough about how this tool is actually helping me improve my Spanish. The fact that it uses real dialogue from actual shows, and allows me to slow down the video is a life saver. I’d give it 6 stars if I could!

App is not clear that you will not be able to progress without paying a subscription service fee. Locks you out of any lessons aside from the first two unless you “sign up”. Misleading and a crummy thing to do. Wouldn’t be as bad if they were upfront about it, but considering how it’s hidden until you already start and then suddenly realize you can’t continue unless you pay a subscription fee just makes me wish Umi gets taken down

this app is wonderful - being able to link Japanese words to scenes from pop culture helps to more easily remember them.

I had to cut my subscription temporarily for financial reasons, but I intend to re-sub when I'm able. It's worth it.

This is everything I was looking for in an app. It will definitely help with my Japanese comprehension. I wonder when they will add Chinese to the list of available languages, that would be perfect. Please let me know if you plan on doing that.

Umi is lit for learning Japanese! Super worth the purchase! I use this daily to boost vocabulary and see words being used contextually. Please support them, it will only improve more over time <3

this app makes the process of language learning so simple that you won’t even feel accomplished when you’re done.😅

Great app. I like this style of learning better than Duolingo.
The vids stopped working for about a week and there was no communication from the devs. I just kept checking twitter(X) and my app everyday to see if it was fixed.

I’d also like to see a more improved UI in the future!

Umi is so innovative, clever, and a perfect way to learn a language in natural situations! But I’m also wondering if you could put in Chinese and Russian. If you can, I’d really appreciate it! Have a good day!

Just saw this on Instagram and decided to give it a try and pick up on my Japanese again. Love it so far! I love the way they present their learning material☺️👍

Umi was really helpful! It’s like my own personal teacher except I can learn from them anytime I want!

This is really an amazing TOOL to really learn , its functionality bringing your mind to focus on the language symbols as you will and recognize and think in Japanese!

You can tell the people who created Umi really care and understand language learning. I love that they pulled from a wide variety of media to help with hearing different tones and voices which really helps you pick up the sounds intonations of languages. I would definitely recommend adding this to your language learning repertoire. I look forward to benefiting from this app for a long time!

I always felt that the best way to learn a language was with sentences of real life examples I found Umi and I didn't doubt about buying lifetime subscription

Extremely fun way to increase vocab. Much better than duolingo, because it shows real world contexts. Please add mandarin!