After two months of using Glossika daily I cancelled my subscription. Thirty dollars a month to use a web app just didn’t make sense to me considering for that price I could pay for LingQ, Clozemaster, and several other services for that price. The other problem is that it’s kind of boring. You repeat sentence after sentence after sentence until you can knee jerk spit out the line without thinking.
For me, the biggest advantage of Glossika was that I could easily work it into my commute. Starting it up and just grinding through the sentences was perfect for the car since once you “get’ the sentences running through 20-25 minutes of review is very mechanical. It was also easy to then drop the sentences into Anki for future review.
Anyway, after digging through the internet I couldn’t find any hard evidence that the Glossika model worked or was effective. I cancelld the subscription and stopped altogether. But then last night I was talking with a new iTalki tutor, and it turns out she also works with the elderly in a retirement home—a subject of two Glossika sentences. I knew exactly what she was talking about without skipping a beat. I even knew which verb would be correct for discussing putting someone into a retirement home. What was interesting to me is that the recall on that vocabulary was instant—no pausing and digging around my brain for it.
Anyway, I don’t think think that experience was enough to justify shelling out 30 dollars a month to continue the service, but it does tell me that if Glossika were to drop its rates to a reasonable 10 a month it would be worth looking into by anyone who wants to improve pronunciation or wants to make their commute more productive.
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