Forvo Pronunciation

Name: Forvo Pronunciation
Rating: 3.75964 (337 reviews)

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User Reviews for Forvo Pronunciation

Such a scam!

‼️ DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY ‼️ I stumbled across this app on google as I was trying to figure out how to pronounce a word in Nahuatl and couldn’t find anything. The website gave me an answer and so I figured I’d look up another word as I found it pretty helpful. I was then prompted to make an account so I could have access to the second word but after trying to start the account it told me my device wasn’t compatible and I needed to download the app. So, I go to the App Store and see the app costs $2.99 or so which I decided was worth it if I had access to all these pronunciations. I wont even get into the struggle of trying to make my account on the app (it took a while and I was very sure by then it was a scam) but after finally getting access to the app I looked up the word I was originally looking for and found no results. I, then, just for the fun of it decided to look up the word that had led me to the site and also couldn’t find any results. To rephrase, I couldnt find any results on the app that I paid for for a word I had looked up for free on their website and gotten a pronunciation for.

Alex the unicorn, Sep 24, 2019

Useful, but interface is rough

The app has good coverage of the one language I have used it for (Italian), but the user interface is still pretty crude. For example, will not render in landscape format on the ipad, which is pretty inconvenient when you are using the ipad with an external keyboard.

Bambino Interiore, May 01, 2021

Extremely valuable 🤓👏👏👏

Being able to find actual people pronouncing words instead of computer generated voices is wonderful for learning correct pronunciation. I am studying the Russian language and there are subtleties that computer just don't get (yet). This app is still buggy and in an hour of use crashed a few times. But that is ok because it is easy to just start it up again and continue searching for pronunciations. This app deserves high marks in spite of its flaws. Bravo!

BlaStar310, Oct 26, 2017

why would I use this?

UPDATE: It's been over a year, so I gave it another try on my iPad. Looks like they're getting closer to being useful, but there was no way to favorite a word. Perhaps it was hidden under the three dots at the right. HOWEVER, every time I tapped on the three dots, IT CRASHED AND CLOSED.So I had to pull out an old iPhone that I never use, download an older version of the app to that, and suddenly the three dots worked, and I was able to favorite a word.So, since I don't want to use the older iPhone, and since this app crashes on my iPad, I'm going to delete it again on my iPad, and hope they keep working on it. And I hope they'll eventually make it possible to allow me to save favorite pronunciations on my device.It they keep working on this, and make it useful, I'll give it five stars. But for now, down to one star.PREVIOUS REVIEW: Perhaps my expectations were too high. I can't really find any reason to use this. The website is easier, and better. I'll probably end up deleting this, unless they provide more functionality, like letting me save my favorite pronunciations on my device so that I can re-listen over and over without logging in. Now THAT would be helpful as I try to learn a new language.

Blue Pine, Jan 24, 2018

I like the app-BUT…

We need a fix to add a couple things that are easy to add. There’s a way to report an incorrect pronunciation, even your own pronunciation. We need an edit button in our profile. Yes, the option is there initially, but an edit button (in our profile, to edit what we pronounced) would be perfect. There’s a thunderstorm right now-I can hear it in the background-I didn’t notice until I already hit send. I’d love to correct that. One other issue I’d like to address: I speak Laotian/Lao. It uses a completely different alphabet. It’s unclear how to properly enter the words/phrase if you're set to (for example) American English. Should you change your profile setting to Laotian? Should you enter the foreign phrase using the Latin Alphabet, for people whom seek the phrase, who are native English speakers? Should you type the word in the Lao alphabet and add an English transliteration? That would be helpful. Laotian pronunciation isn’t easy to find (it should be!). Translations aren’t difficult to find, however, pronunciation and transliteration (especially in the same place) are very rare to come by. It’s difficult to search a word/phrase if you don’t speak Lao, but in particular, if you don’t know the alphabet. If you are illiterate in Lao, it’s much easier to see the words written in the Latin alphabet. It would make it much easier understand the word being pronounced.

NKhamsa620, Jul 27, 2023

Great

After years of not using this (when I heavily used it once) I find myself coming back to find the pronunciation of aponeuroses where I could not find it anywhere else for the plural version. If you find yourself unable to find something on here, just use Google Translate as a last resort.

Omfganimal, Apr 03, 2020

Forvo is amazing, but a learner should be careful

My first language is Arabic, I’ve noticed a problem with some “category work” and “spelling small vowels -Harakat-“ and those problems could be fetal if you don’t notice. A collage could become a kidney! And vice versa, hundreds of words could be contaminated like that.Otherwise, the service is incredibly useful, it helps me with my second language -English-, also with my hobby languages (Japanese, Korean) and also with any sudden interest in how a word is pronounced in any language.Finally, about the app. I really find the design more comfortable than the website. But I have two complaint:First being an able to record my reading for a word that has been recorded. Second, I can’t report or edit a word writing wrong or easily confused between two meanings; sometimes I want to make both pronunciations and writing much clearer.

Raheemooh, Jun 04, 2018

Forvo is great but app needs Work

Forvo is super awesome, but there are a handful of easy fixes that would make the app a lot better:The UI in the search screen is tiny and isn’t even close to utilizing the entire screen. Poor design. There’s not button to quickly clear out the search bar. This is a simple efficiency issue. I’d rather not press backspace a bunch of times. After typing a word into the search bar, pressing “done” on the keypad should be programmed to activate the search, but instead it just minimizes the keyboard and then you have to press “Search”. Another easily fixable efficiency issue. It doesn’t need to know my location. It needs to know where I’m from. My language variant is not reliably tied to where I happen to be in the world at any given moment. My language variant is tied to where I’m from and where I’ve lived for a long time. So instead of asking for your location, the app just needs to ask you where you’re from and where you’ve lived for longer than a year or so.

Shadow Plumber, Aug 31, 2019

App has virtually no words

So I take the $3 plunge to help as I’m learning Swedish. Just to practice searching, I use the word, “Hello” and hit search:“Sorry, Forvo cannot find your word. Do you want to add it?”You’re kidding me, right? Sure, let’s add this FIRST WORD WE ALL LEARN in a foreign language. And the response:“Hello is already in Forvo in this language.” So where is the pronunciation?Is it a secret? It must be...along with tons of other words I’ve looked up. Yet, I can go to the website and get these words. Why charge for the app? It does less than the free website!This is a $3 ripoff and disappointment. Swedish is available in your list of languages in the app. At the bare minimum it should be supported for the most basic of terms; or you should make it clear BEFORE purchase what it can and can’t do...in this case, it can’t do anything in Swedish. Thanks for taking my money...it understood THAT language just fine.As it is, the IKEA catalog is more useful than this app.

Thinkology, Feb 03, 2019

Required Account Registration

I had used the app for a while and was pretty happy with it. I don’t see the point of having to create an account now to use an app that I paid. Not all users are going to record their pronunciations and post them. My simple purpose is to look up pronunciations. The app makes that one simple, essential task impossible without creating an account. If the app was free, I would have followed the requirement. Now there is no point of using the app when I can just use the web version. I don’t need another account and another password to keep track of.

V Hapn, Mar 04, 2022

Description

Improve your pronunciation with Forvo! Forvo Pronunciation App lets you listen, request and record pronunciations in more than 450 languages. With Forvo, you can search for words and listen to pronunciations recorded by authentic native speakers of the language you require.

And it's not just the world's most spoken languages such as English, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Russian, French, German, Japa+nese, or Italian, you can also search for words in Kabyle, Bashkir, Tamil and many, many others. Features: * Search for words and listen to pronunciations from native speakers. * English pronunciations, French pronunciations, German pronunciations, Chinese pronunciations, Spanish pronunciations and hundreds more. * More than 7 million pronunciations available. * Compare different accents for the same word in the same language. * Listen to male or female voices. * Keep track of your recently listened pronunciations. * Works with your forvo.com account. * Record pronunciations in your native language and help fellow learners! * Learn to pronounce properly in more than 450 languages. * Dark mode so your eyes don't get tired. * Follow the pronunciations of those users whose voices you like the most. * French as a new interface language Forvo also allows you to compare the way a word is pronounced in different accents from the same language. Forvo guarantees that you are always listening to pronunciations by native speakers. You can listen to these pronunciations by both female and male speakers and you can also adapt Forvo to your own requirements. Join the biggest pronunciation network in the world.