Learn Burmese

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uTalk Burmese App

Alternative to Duolingo or Babbel

The uTalk app teaches about 2000 Burmese words and focuses primarily on playful exercises. There are several exercises to choose from:

• Read and listen to Burmese words (with translation and photos)
• Match the Burmese word you heard to a photo
• Speak a Burmese word and compare the recording with the original
• A memory game with pictures
• Speak the Burmese translation of an English word

The vocabulary is divided into 60 freely selectable topics. The special thing about the uTalk app is that you get access to all 160 languages.

The interface of the app is well made and is similar to other apps like Babbel, Duolingo or Mondly.

Summary: Getting access to 160 languages is impressive and the scope (2000 words with native speaker audio and exercises) is also solid.

Link: uTalk Burmese Language Course App

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Ling Burmese App

Playfully Learning Burmese

Systems: Android App, iPhone App, Online Version (PC and Mac)

Content: Burmese lessons with native speaker audio

Prices: USD 8.99 (1 month), USD 79 (12 months),
USD 149 (unlimited)

Overall Value:

The Ling language learning app offers lessons for 60 languages and is quite similar to Duolingo or Babbel, which do not offer Burmese courses.

Ling uses "gamified learning", which means learning the Burmese language in a playful way. There are mini-games, levels, experience points, as well as tests and exercises at the end of each lesson.

The vocabulary covers about 1000 Burmese words and phrases, all with native speaker audio and pictures. Grammar is not included.

This app offers a test to determine your proficiency level in Burmese.

Summary: Good ideas that make learning Burmese more fun.

Link: Ling Burmese Language Course App

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Cudoo: Burmese Course

Online Learning with Certificates

Systems: Online Access (PC, Mac, smartphones)

Content: Burmese video lessons and quiz tests

Prices: USD 12.99 (one course), USD 24.99 (4-7 courses bundle)

Overall Value:

Cudoo is a kind of online university that offers courses with certificates on different topics.

This includes language courses for 160 languages. These are all beginner courses (CEFR level A1 and A2).

For each language there are 1-10 courses and each course has 20-40 lessons.

The lessons each include a short video with new vocabulary and there are short quiz questions below the video.

Summary: The videos are well made, so especially for smaller languages these courses are a good start.

Link: Cudoo Online Burmese Language Course

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Bluebird Burmese App

Burmese Lessons and Exercises

Systems: Android and iPhone apps, online version (PC and Mac)

Content: Burmese exercises with native speaker audio and speech recognition

Prices: USD 9.99 (1 month), USD 100 (12 months), USD 200 (unlimited), USD 400 (163 languages)

Overall Value:

The Bluebird App offers 146 source languages and 163 target languages and dialects, including Burmese.

The Burmese language course in this app includes the following:

• Daily video lessons in three difficulty levels
• Basic Burmese vocabulary on several dozen topics
• Common Burmese verbs with conjugations
• Analysis of your own pronunciation (with speech recognition)
• Tests: listening comprehension, filling in word gaps, vocabulary quizzes

There are about 500 video lessons for learning Burmese, each 5 to 60 minutes long. For languages with other scripts, the words can also be displayed transliterated in the Latin script.

The Bluebird app has no grammar lessons. Instead, you are supposed to learn the grammar "implicitly" from the examples, like in Rosetta Stone.

Summary: The video lessons and the interface take some getting used to, but the exercises are quite varied. Especially for smaller languages, this app is a viable alternative.

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Lingo Burmese App

Playful Burmese Learning

Systems: Android and iPhone Apps, Online Version (PC and Mac)

Content: Burmese lessons and exercises

Prices: USD 19.99 (1 month), USD 40 (3 months), USD 60 (6 months)

Overall Value:

The Lingo Play App offers language courses for 70 languages. It offers "gamified learning", which means learning vocabulary in a playful way.

Each Burmese lesson offers the following exercises:

• Presentation of new words with translation and image
• Decide whether a Burmese word matches the image
• Select one of four pictures that matches a word
• Type in the Burmese word for a picture
• Correctly type in a spoken Burmese word

In the full version this app offers up to 5000 Burmese words. The interface of the app is similar to Babbel, Duolingo or Mondly.

There is also a multiplayer mode and competitions where you can test your Burmese skills against other people.

Summary: Overpriced Burmese course that does offer some good exercises, but is not better than other similar apps.

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Instant Immersion: Burmese

Learning Software for Download

Systems: PC and Mac

Suitable for: Beginners and intermediate learners, travel vocabulary, business

Content: Burmese vocabulary lessons and exercises

Prices: USD 35 (Level 1), USD 55 (Level 1-3)

Overall Value:

The Instant Immersion Burmese learning software is available for download only for PCs and Macs.

According to the vendor, this software is supposed to be "as good as Rosetta Stone", but much cheaper because less money is spent on advertising.

Unfortunately, this promise cannot hold.

The software interface is chaotic and all three "language levels" offer a chaotic mix of easy and difficult words.

Essentially, this software only introduces new Burmese vocabulary with native speaker audio and pictures, and then there are a few exercises.

Burmese grammar is not included at all.

Summary: Limited scope and bad interface. At least it is relatively cheap and there is a 90-day money-back guarantee.

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Simya Burmese App

Not really recommended

Systems: Android App, iPhone App

Content: Vocabulary trainer for Burmese learning

Prices: USD 9,99 (1000 words), USD 59 (1000 words in 50 languages)

Overall Value:

The Simya App for Android and iOS is purely a vocabulary trainer for 50 languages, including Burmese.

The free version contains 300 words and has very frequent "ad breaks". The paid version (without ads) also contains only 1000 words and phrases.

All the words have native speaker audio and you can use the app offline too.

Burmese grammar and verb conjugations are not included in this app.

Summary: Not really worth it, as there are much better alternatives like Mondly, Rosetta Stone or even Duolingo.

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Linguashop: Burmese

Educational Software for Download

Systems: PC (Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista and XP)

Content: Burmese lessons with native speaker audio and speech recognition, grammar

Prices: USD 35 (second language for free)

Overall Value:

The Linguashop educational software ("TeachMe") is available for over 90 languages, including Burmese. It also includes an audio CD.

The native speaker audio and speech recognition are relatively good.

However, the interface of the learning software is quite chaotic and there are no exercises — only lessons where new vocabulary is presented.

It is also unclear how many words are included in this Burmese learning program. There is no information about this on the website.

Some grammar lessons are included — however, these are basically just images with short texts.

Summary: Poor quality for a relatively low price. You get language courses for two languages when you buy, one as a free bonus.

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