MosaLingua Review: Can You Learn a Language With Flashcards?

In addition to the main language courses, MosaLingua Spanish has a business course. There are also TOEFL, TOEIC, business, and medical lessons for English learners. These courses focus more on their intended purpose. For example, business Spanish covers finding a job, human resources, legal, and other related flashcards.

There are also the following courses you can try separately.

• MosaSeries features videos to learn vocabulary and improve reading, listening comprehension, and speaking.

• MosaSpeak uses dialogue learning with recordings of native speakers to to improve speaking skills.

• MosaTraining features helpful tips from polyglots and tools to learn a new language efficiently.

If you decide to use these language courses, you’ll get an all-inclusive training program, but the costs quickly add up.

Lessons Quality

MosaLingua flashcards work the same whether they include words or grammar rules. You first listen to the flashcard and then repeat it. You memorize by flipping the flashcards that display relevant images and example sentences, which helps to remember using auditory and visual memory. Finally, you write what you learned using a letter bank.

This learning technique is as efficient as it is straightforward and clear. Users also have control over how long each lesson takes. By standard, MosaLingua starts with five flashcards. But you can add more and lengthen each session.

While the teaching material of MosaLingua works well for building vocabulary and understanding grammar, it isn’t as comprehensive in other aspects compared to other language platforms. Here’s more to MosaLingua’s lesson quality, from grammar instructions to vocabulary.

Grammar Instruction

MosaLingua has detailed grammar explanations and practices. The app has articles that explain different grammatical concepts and take only five minutes to read. They give a basic understanding but you can also study more complex grammar by adding related flashcards from the Explore section.

The grammar flashcards work the same as others. The difference is the grammar terms are highlighted in both your native and the target language. All these help apprehend different grammar structures while reviewing the words you might know. 

Verbal Practice

MosaLingua asks users to hear and repeat. However, there isn’t a speech recognition system to give feedback. You record yourself repeating the word or phrase. From there, you assess pronunciation and intonation after flipping the flashcard. For most language learners, this isn’t effective for improving their speaking skills in a new language.

The only way MosaLingua helps with speaking is by teaching pronunciation with flashcards. For example, MosaLingua Spanish gives examples like pronouncing the ‘R’ in the phrase ‘r de pero’ like a rolled R. Other than these explanations, there isn’t much offered for improving speaking skills.

Reading

MosaLingua doesn’t have reading-focused practices or exercises where you guess the correct answer after reading a text. The only practice you can do is read the articles or the transcript of the videos. 

The videos also feature subtitles in both the target and your native language. For example, when learning Spanish, you can turn on Spanish or English subtitles for the videos available. Similar apps like Lingopie and Yabla also does this.

But even with this, you don’t get any interactive exercises to improve reading comprehension in a new language. MosaLingua may be disappointing for language learners planning to improve their reading comprehension. A few of the best supplemental apps for MosaLingua users for reading would be lingQ or Readlang.

Writing

Writing is an essential part of how MosaLingua flashcards work. When you learn new flashcards, you first listen and memorize. Then, write the words and phrases using a letter bank. Although the app doesn’t ask you to write from your keyboard, it helps to remember words and grammar rules.

This kind of ‘writing’ may not be satisfying enough for those looking to build a strong foundation in a new language. Still, MosaLingua’s writing exercises are great for advancing in a foreign language.

Vocabulary

Helping language learners build a strong vocabulary is where MosaLingua excels. There is no shortage of words appearing in the Learn tab based on your progression or preferences. While MosaLingua is good at picking flashcards, you can also choose what to learn, making it a powerful app for vocabulary acquisition.

Personalization through categorized and custom flashcards, progress tracking, and the 20/80 approach helps users acquire the vocabulary they will use. The way MosaLingua teaches new words makes it an effective language-learning app for holding basic conversations with native speakers.

Repetitiveness

The language apps using flashcards tend to get repetitive due to how they work. This applies to MosaLingua too. You learn and practice new words and phrases similarly by constantly listening and repeating, memorizing, and writing.

While we can’t say MosaLingua isn’t repetitive, the app tries to make this up with other features. The Progress section keeps users engaged, for example. It shows learning data, such as how many phrases everyday you learn if you keep learning at the same rate.

Although there isn’t much gamification in MosaLingua, there’s a leaderboard to see your rank among other MosaLingua users. It surely doesn’t take the repetitiveness away, but it keeps learner motivation high by elevating engagement