Is Lanma good for complete beginners?

It is better once you can follow some real content. A beginner set (Lanma grades the words it extracts as beginner, intermediate or advanced) works from day one, but the app assumes you are watching things in the language.

Does Lanma have streaks?

Yes, a daily goal and a streak on the Progress screen. There are no leagues, hearts or currencies.

Many people do: Duolingo for the daily structure, Lanma for the vocabulary from what they actually watch.

Lanma vs Duolingo

Duolingo is a gamified course app that teaches a fixed curriculum in short lessons, with streaks and leagues to keep you coming back. Lanma is a phone app for people learning English (and 19 other languages) from the YouTube videos they watch: the transcript becomes vocabulary you keep, then a live AI voice conversation gets you saying it. Here is where they differ, and who each one is better for.

Duolingo teaches you its content; Lanma teaches you yours. Duolingo is a course with a start and a path, and it is good at getting a beginner to show up every day. Lanma has no course. It takes the K-pop interview, the anime episode or the tech review you were already watching and turns that into the lesson.

That makes them good at different moments. Duolingo is at its best in the first months of a language. Lanma is at its best once you have started consuming real content and keep meeting words you half know.

Side by side

	Lanma	Duolingo
Content	Your own YouTube videos and articles, plus curated K-pop and J-pop sets	A fixed curriculum per language
Vocabulary source	The words a real speaker used in the video you chose	Words chosen by the course
Speaking	Open-ended live voice conversation with an AI, scored at the end	Scripted speaking exercises
Review	Spaced repetition on every word you keep, with six mastery levels	Practice sessions and lesson repeats
Motivation	A daily goal and a streak; no leagues, no hearts	Streaks, leagues, hearts, gems
Ads	None on any plan	Ads on the free tier
Languages	20 study languages; the app itself is available in all 20	40+ courses

Who should pick which

Pick Duolingo if you want absolute beginners who want a guided path from zero and enjoy the game.

Pick Lanma if the words you want are in the videos you already watch, you want them to survive past next week, and you want to practise saying them out loud with someone who will correct you.

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