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Drops focuses primarily on vocabulary. My Opa (German for grandfather) met my Oma (grandmother) while on a trip to Germany. Neither spoke the other’s language but they fell in love and taught each other to speak English and German. He often said that the mechanics of a language weren’t as important as having a strong vocabulary. I have to agree.
Knowing words will give you more opportunities to converse and perfect the skill. Eventually my Opa became so great at speaking German, everyone from Germany thought he was German.
Vocabulary is where Drops excels. Drops is an excellent app for learning vocabulary and is especially useful if you already know the basics of a language. Drops has over 25 languages to choose from including Spanish, German, French, Russian, Italian, Hebrew, Arabic, Tagalog, and more.
The app will present you with visualizations of words that you can choose to add to your vocabulary or not. When you choose a word it will take you through a variety of memorization techniques and quizzes to help you learn and retain it.
Drops includes almost 100 categories ranging from the basics like colors, numbers, and food, to everyday topics like business, politics, and transportation, to more obscure topics like prison, astronomy, and cosmetics.
Drops is colorful, fun to use, and really helps you learn and memorize new words. Best of all you can use it for free with ads and a limited amount of time daily or you can pay for a subscription. With a $7.99 monthly subscription you’ll get 15 minutes of learning per day and an ad-free experience for one language.
Additionally, you can unlock one language for life (unlimited time and ad-free) for $31.99; or, you can unlock all languages for $49.99. Paying for a lifetime membership also unlocks the “Tough Word Dojo,” which allows you to face your toughest words.
For learning new words and strengthening your existing vocabulary, Drops is an invaluable tool.
Our Rating: 5/5