Best Language Learning Apps for Advanced Learners in 2026

At an advanced level, most of your learning comes from real shows and books. Each app below is grouped by the job it helps with.

Lessons Written at Your Level

Bubblegum

Bubblegum is the best app for serious learners. You learn from text and audio you can mostly understand, which is called comprehensible input.

Poppy, your AI tutor, writes lessons and stories at the level you pick, in any of the 62 languages Bubblegum teaches.

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Copy in a paragraph from a book or a news site, and Poppy walks through each sentence of it.
In a branching story Poppy writes, you choose what happens next.
Clear, expressive AI voices read every lesson aloud, with a different voice for each speaker.

Bubblegum's six levels are its own, so they don't line up with exam levels such as DELE or the JLPT.
A new custom lesson costs us real money to make, so your first one is free, and Bubblegum Pro gives you unlimited custom lessons. The lesson library is free for everyone, because we believe everyone should be able to learn.

Regenerative Review™

Mobile

Watch and Read Native Media

Language Player

Language Player adds two sets of subtitles to YouTube videos, music, and TV shows. It also streams live TV in the language you're learning, with no subtitles at all.

Videos are ranked by difficulty, so you can find ones at your level.
Its Corpus tool shows which words go together and the mistakes learners make, taken from real collections of text.

Flashcards

MobileWebBrowser extension

Migaku

Migaku is a Chrome extension that turns websites and the subtitles on Netflix and YouTube into things to learn from.

Each page you visit gets a comprehension score, so you can choose what to read or watch next.

Flashcards

MobileBrowser extension

Learn the Nuance

Clozemaster

Clozemaster offers over 170 language pairings, and every word comes inside a real sentence.

Get a sentence right enough times, and Clozemaster moves you on to harder ones.

MobileWeb

Gymglish

Gymglish's German and Italian series are made for intermediate and advanced learners, from A2 or B1 up to C2.

An episode has a short story, questions about it, and a clip from a film, a series, or a song in the language you're learning.
Corrections and explanations are written for your own answers.

Gymglish teaches English, French, Spanish, Italian, and German, and plans start at 14 euros a month once the free week ends.

Review in stories

MobileWeb

Get Your Writing Corrected

LangCorrect

On LangCorrect, you keep a journal in the language you're learning, and other members correct it sentence by sentence. In return, you correct entries written in your language.

Writing prompts are sorted by CEFR level.
A record of every correction you get shows the mistakes you make most.

Without Premium, you can study two languages at once, and Premium raises that to ten.

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JournalyWrite journal posts and get comments from other learners right where they fit in your post.

Prepare for an Exam

Our exam guides list each test's levels and dates.

Exam	Language	Guide
DELE	Spanish	DELE guide
DELF and DALF	French	DELF and DALF guide
Goethe-Zertifikat	German	Goethe-Zertifikat guide
CILS and CELI	Italian	CILS and CELI guide
CELPE-Bras and CAPLE	Portuguese	CELPE-Bras and CAPLE guide
JLPT	Japanese	JLPT guide
TOPIK	Korean	TOPIK guide
HSK	Chinese	HSK guide
TOCFL	Taiwan Mandarin	TOCFL guide
TORFL	Russian	TORFL guide
IELTS	English	IELTS guide
TOEFL iBT	English	TOEFL iBT guide
Staatsexamen NT2	Dutch	Staatsexamen NT2 guide
YKI	Finnish	YKI guide
Norskprøven	Norwegian	Norskprøven guide
Prøve i Dansk	Danish	Prøve i Dansk guide
Tisus and Swedex	Swedish	Swedish test guide
TEG	Irish	TEG guide

Common Questions

What if these apps feel too hard?

Spend more time with graded stories and shows made for learners. Our apps for intermediate learners are grouped by skill, and our apps for beginners start from the first words.

How do I keep improving at an advanced level?

Pick a show or a podcast you'd enjoy anyway, and spend a few hours a week with it. Write a short journal entry about it each week, and get it corrected.

Is Bubblegum free?

Yes. The lesson library is free for everyone, because we believe everyone should be able to learn. It holds lessons that other learners asked Poppy for. A new custom lesson costs us real money to make, so your first one is free, and Bubblegum Pro gives you unlimited custom lessons.