Learn Tajik

Systems: Android App, iPhone App, Online Version

Content: Tajik vocabulary (2000 words), lessons and playful exercises

Prices:
USD 12 (1 month and all 160 languages)
USD 60 (12 months and all 160 languages)

Discount offer: USD 199 (Lifetime Access to all 160 Languages)

Overall Value:

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

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

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 Tajik Language Course App

Systems: Online Access (PC, Mac, smartphones)

Content: Tajik 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 Tajik Language Course

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

Content: Tajik 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 Tajik.

The Tajik language course in this app includes the following:

• Daily video lessons in three difficulty levels
• Basic Tajik vocabulary on several dozen topics
• Common Tajik 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 Tajik, 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 understand 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.

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

Content: Tajik 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 Tajik. 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 Tajik 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.