Learn Punjabi

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Punjabi Basic Course

From 17 Minute Languages

Systems: Online Access (PC, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS)

Suitable for: Beginners and Advanced Learners, Students, Professionals

Content: 1300 words (basic course), 5200 words (complete course), grammar, verb conjugations, exercises

Prices: USD 29,95 (Basic Course), USD 97 (Complete Course)

Overall Value:

The Punjabi Basic Course contains a vocabulary trainer for the basic Punjabi vocabulary (1300 words) with native-speaker audio, as well as grammar explanations and various exercises.

The vocabulary trainer works with a long-term memory method, in which the new vocabulary is checked at increasing intervals.

You can choose between text input, multiple choice or simply confirming whether you knew a word or not.

The exercises include text comprehension questions, filling in word gaps or just vocabulary lists where one side is covered.

The basic course corresponds to the official language levels A1 and A2 (explanation of CEFR language levels).

The Complete Course contains:

• Basic course for beginners (basic vocabulary with 1300 words)
• Intermediate course (1800 more words)
• Advanced course for experts (2100 words)
• Additional specialized vocabulary
• Covers the official CEFR language levels A1 to C2

There are 17 different languages you can use to learn Punjabi with this app.

Summary: Much cheaper and even better than the famous Rosetta Stone. There is a free demo version available and a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Link: Punjabi Basic Course and Complete Course

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uTalk Punjabi App

Alternative to Duolingo or Babbel

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

• Read and listen to Punjabi words (with translation and photos)
• Match the Punjabi word you heard to a photo
• Speak a Punjabi word and compare the recording with the original
• A memory game with pictures
• Speak the Punjabi 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 Punjabi Language Course App

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Ling Punjabi App

Playful Punjabi Learning

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

Content: Punjabi 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 Punjabi courses.

Ling uses "gamified learning", which means learning the Punjabi 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 Punjabi 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 Punjabi.

Summary: Good ideas that make learning Punjabi more fun.

Link: Ling Punjabi Language Course App

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Cudoo: Punjabi Course

Online Learning with Certificates

Systems: Online Access (PC, Mac, smartphones)

Content: Punjabi 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 Punjabi Language Course

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Memrise Punjabi App

App with User-Generated Lessons

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

Content: Punjabi lessons and vocabulary trainer with native speaker audio, grammar

Prices: USD 8,99 (1 month), USD 60 (12 months), USD 110 (unlimited)

Overall Value:

With the Memrise App you can learn over 90 languages.

This includes even very small languages - however, in such cases the language courses are often limited to just a few lessons.

One special feature of the Memrise learning app is the large number of lessons created by users (native speakers).

The quality of these lessons varies greatly though. For example, only the basic forms of verbs are usually taught, without the conjugations. Some languages also do not have an audio recording of the words at all.

Another good idea of the Memrise app are the user-generated tips and mnemonics for each word to help you memorize them.

Summary: User-generated lessons are a good idea. In practice, the quality of the lessons leaves a lot be desired.

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Bluebird Punjabi App

Punjabi Lessons and Exercises

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

Content: Punjabi lessons and exercises with voice output 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 Punjabi.

The Punjabi language course in this app includes the following:

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

For Punjabi, there are about 500 video lessons, each 5 to 60 minutes long. For languages with other scripts, the words can also be displayed trans­lite­rated in the Western script.

The Bluebird App does not have grammar lessons. Instead, you are suppo­sed to understand the grammar "implicitly" from the examples, same as in Rosetta Stone.

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

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Mango Punjabi App

Includes Grammar

Systems: Android and iOS Apps, Online Version

Content: Punjabi lessons with native speaker audio, grammar, culture

Prices: USD 7.99 (1 month), USD 80 (1 year),
USD 18 (1 month and 70 languages), USD 180
(1 year and 70 languages)

Overall Value:

The Mango Languages App offers 70 languages, including Punjabi.

This app also has some grammar lessons and cultural explanations. The explanations in English are all recorded and well done.

However, the number of lessons for learning Punjabi is quite small, which means that this app is only suitable for absolute beginners.

There are no exercises, except for the repeated vocabulary tests.

You can also record your own pronunciation in the app and compare it with the recording of a native speaker.

Summary: Good quality, but not much vocabulary. Only for absolute Punjabi beginners.

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Pimsleur Punjabi Course

Beginner Course similar to Rosetta Stone

Systems: PC and Mac (incl. Mobile App)

Suitabe for: Beginners, advanced, students, travel vocabulary

Content: Punjabi lessons with native-speaker audio and speech recognition

Price: USD 120 (basic course)

Overall Value:

The Pimsleur App is very similar to Rosetta Stone in that it does not give grammar explanations, verb conjugation tables, etc.

Instead, the Pimsleur method is supposed to let you learn the Punjabi language intuitively, just like your native language - by combining pictures, reading and speaking (speech recognition).

This Punjabi learning course for PCs and Macs also includes a mobile app for Android and iOS systems.

Pimsleur offers only initial Punjabi lessons for beginners and has no intermediate or advanced lessons.

Summary: The most expensive Punjabi beginners course, even though it is unlikely that learning with it is much better than with the cheaper apps.

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Simya Punjabi App

Not really recommended

Systems: Android App, iPhone App

Content: Vocabulary trainer for Punjabi 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 Punjabi.

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.

Punjabi 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: Punjabi

Educational Software for Download

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

Content: Punjabi 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 Punjabi. 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 Punjabi 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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Additional Ways To Learn Punjabi Online:

Colanguage: Find Skype teachers

Overall Value:

At Colanguage you can arrange face-to-face language lessons online via Skype with language teachers around the world (from $5-10 per hour).

In addition to using apps, it is definitely a good idea to also practice with native speakers in order to learn Punjabi properly.

Tandem: Find a language exchange partner

Overall Value:

Instead of hiring teachers, you can also find people who are interested in a free language exchange online via Skype.

It is completely free of charge, but you have to act as a language teacher for the other person half of the time.

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Overview of the Punjabi Learning Apps:

Learning App	Subscrip- tion?	Price	Systems	Value
17 Minutes (Basics)	No	$29	PC, Mac, Android, iOS
17 Minutes (Complete)	No	$97	PC, Mac, Android, iOS
uTalk	No	$199	PC, Mac, Android, iOS
uTalk	Yes (1 month)	$12	PC, Mac, Android, iOS
uTalk	Yes (12 months)	$60	PC, Mac, Android, iOS
Ling	No	$149	PC, Mac, Android, iOS
Ling	Yes (1 month)	$9	PC, Mac, Android, iOS
Ling	Yes (12 months)	$79	PC, Mac, Android, iOS
Memrise	No	$110	PC, Mac, Android, iOS
Memrise	Yes (1 month)	$9	PC, Mac, Android, iOS
Memrise	Yes (12 months)	$60	PC, Mac, Android, iOS
Cudoo (one course)	No	$13	Online Access
Cudoo (complete)	No	$25	Online Access
Bluebird	No	$200	PC, Mac, Android, iOS
Bluebird	Yes (1 month)	$10	PC, Mac, Android, iOS
Bluebird	Yes (12 months)	$100	PC, Mac, Android, iOS
Mango	Yes (1 month)	$8	PC, Mac, Android, iOS
Mango	Yes (12 months)	$80	PC, Mac, Android, iOS
Pimsleur (Basics)	No	$120	PC, Mac, Android, iOS
Simya (1 language)	No	$10	Android, iOS
Simya (50 languages)	No	$59	Android, iOS
Linguashop	No	$35	PC

Best Punjabi Online Course:
17 Minute Languages

Best App to Learn Punjabi:
uTalk