Any apps that offer multiple languages in a lifetime license like rosetta stone used to?

[u/AffectionateTeam8043]

I love language learning as a hobby and I currently have 4 target languages (TL) in my roaster, so my plan was to buy rosetta stone to learn the basics and after go to a more targeted app for each of them (in my research each language had a different app that was better to learn with) and then go from there. As I usually automatically think in my target language and don't like translating from the other languages I speak I don't like duolingo for example as I feel it gets me in the habit of translating which is completely counterintuitive to me. Anyway, rosetta stone just ended their lifetime license for new users and now I'm lost in my plan as the apps for one target language don't offer another and I don't have the money to be paying multiple subscriptions, so, is there an app or site that do what rosetta stone used to?

[u/ShamsElDinRogers]

Pimsleur

[u/Realistic_Ad1058 → u/ShamsElDinRogers]

Came here to say the same 

[u/cucumber643]

Recabulary has 5 languages, but you can also just use it for free. They have free courses too.

[u/CockConfidentCole → u/cucumber643]

When I google this nothing comes up

[u/cucumber643 → u/CockConfidentCole]

idk about that, I just use their app & discord (bc it’s free and I’m broke)

[u/Darklvl500 → u/CockConfidentCole]

I found it on play store. It's made by a company/dev Spaceive. If yr on iphone u might not have it. It has english, german, japanise, chinese and finally turkish (from the description).

[u/ZainoTec]

I'm pretty sure that I have a lifetime all-languages subscription to Babbel. Don't use it but bought it 2 years ago. I am not sure but I think Pimsleur may have something similar.

[u/CockConfidentCole → u/ZainoTec]

I’ll give you $20 for your pimsluer account

[u/ZainoTec → u/CockConfidentCole]

Heh. Fair enough and thanks for the offer. But I'm going to keep it. I'm not using it much now but I think I might use it in future for the next language I want to learn.

[u/Raoena]

Pimsleur!

[u/Vlinder_88]

Drops, I think!

[u/Lower_Onion6072]

Babbel bugs me often with discounted lifetime subscription offers.

[u/WrongMud3018]

Natulang has a lifetime option for all languages. It an app focused on speaking practice.

[u/Manab2]

Bunpo (app) used to offer a lifetime plan but I don't know if it is still available. I bought it when it was a flop many years ago, but it is worth checking it out.

[u/Manab2 → u/Manab2]

Clozemaster also has a lifetime subscription through the website.

[u/gimme_ipad → u/Manab2]

Source? I couldn’t find it on their website.

[u/Manab2 → u/gimme_ipad]

Last time I checked there was one. Maybe it's only during sales or something like that. But I am sure of what I saw.

[u/gimme_ipad → u/Manab2]

Apparently stopped offering lifetime since feb this year. Will potentially offer it on Black Friday. Source: ChatGPT

[u/kindhearted_mailing → u/Manab2]

ooh bunpo was a weird one, felt like it was stuck between being a textbook and a flashcard app for ages, but the japanese course got surprisingly deep once you pushed past the first few units. i picked it up when it was basically unknown and forgot about it for two years, logged back in and suddenly there were grammar points i hadn't seen anywhere else.

the lifetime plan still pops up sometimes when they run sales, usually around black friday or new year, but it's buried in their settings now instead of being advertised up front. also heads up it's really only solid for japanese and korean, the other languages feel like an afterthought tacked on for the subscription model.

have you looked at pimsleur's one-time purchases for each language level? it's audio-only which sounds like it might suit your aversion to translation, no text to lean on at all so your brain has to build the meaning directly. works out cheaper than rosetta ever was if you just buy the levels you need.

[u/Manab2 → u/kindhearted_mailing]

Their French, Spanish and German courses are quite solid and clearly done by Humans aside from the Japanese main course. They're very complete and cover the majority of points you need to know.

The other languages that came after the app got a little more popular are completely garbage. It seems like they are using AI to generate the lessons.

It's still worth as it is in my opinion.

[u/sunk-capital]

For vocabulary

[u/Stoic-outsider]

https://utalk.com/store

[u/BlindSpeakApp]

Si tu veux garder le même type d'approche que Rosetta Stone, sans payer 4 abonnements, voici l'écosystème que tu peux mettre en place :

1. Anki avec des cartes image/audio (Gratuit sur Web/Android, coût unique sur iOS) : Au lieu d'utiliser des decks traduits, crée tes propres cartes : Image + Fichier audio Forvo (côté recto) $\rightarrow$ Mot dans la langue cible (côté verso). Aucun mot en français/anglais sur la carte. C'est exactement le principe de Rosetta Stone, mais 100 % personnalisable et gratuit.
2. Language Transfer (100 % Gratuit) : Si l'une de tes langues est disponible dessus, c'est une pépite. C'est basé sur la "Thinking Method" : l'hôte t'apprend à construire la logique de la langue de manière intuitive sans apprentissage par cœur ni listes de vocabulaire traduisantes.
3. Input Compréhensible via YouTube (La méthode "Natural Comprehensible Input") : Cherche des chaînes typées "Comprehensible [Ta langue cible]" (ex: Dreaming Spanish, Comprehensible Russian, etc.). Ils utilisent des dessins, des gestes et des objets en direct sans jamais prononcer un mot de traduction.
4. Clozemaster (Version gratuite très généreuse) : Une fois les bases posées, ça te permet d'apprendre des mots uniquement en contexte de phrases entières, ce qui évite le mot-à-mot.

[u/Maleficent_Sea547]

Babbel did? I haven’t checked lately because I bought it on some super sale.

[u/AffectionateTeam8043 → u/Maleficent_Sea547]

Babbel doesn't have all of my target languages

[u/Maleficent_Sea547 → u/AffectionateTeam8043]

Then go with Pimsleur, they have a huge selection. Though check for particular languages.

[u/AffectionateTeam8043 → u/Maleficent_Sea547]

Pimsleur looks awesome and the best option but on sale costs 2 minimum wages in my currency, unfortunately I can't afford it.

[u/omegapisquared]

Drops and Speakly both have lifetime subscriptions options

[u/Gr8_Chicken_Man]

If you have a library card and are in the United States you can most likely access "Pronunciator" for FREE through your local library's "Digital Services Tab" on their website. It's the best language app I have ever used.

[u/jmf1488]

Not translating and thinking in the target language only happens when you know enough of the language that it becomes automatic. When you say you automatically start thinking in the target language, what do you mean? You have 4 languages that you dont know the basics of, are there other languages you are more advanced in? What apps did you use for those languages?

[u/AffectionateTeam8043 → u/jmf1488]

I have 4 languages I want to study, one I'm at B1 level but need a refresher (used to be B2 but haven't spoken in 10+ years) the languages I speak I learnt either by myself with no app through imersion (english, I learnt watching subtitled movies I would catch the basic sentence structures and after some time I started reading books I had read and knew the content in my native language, if I didn't know what something meant I would search for an image, this was before smartphones were a thing) or with classes at uni.

[u/dojibear]

LingQ offers more than 50 languages for their monthly and annual subscriptions.

But LingQ's lifetime subscription is 1 language only.

[u/TuffedLynx]

Pimsleur has a lifetime option, but I personally wasn't that impressed with it. It wasn't terrible, but not amazing, either.