Seedlang Review: Better Than Memrise For German

Written by Donovan Nagel

Donovan Nagel Teacher, translator, polyglot

🎓 B.A., Theology, Australian College of Theology, NSW
🎓 M.A., Applied Linguistics, University of New England, NSW

Applied Linguistics graduate, teacher and translator. Founder of The Mezzofanti Guild and Talk In Arabic.
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A fantastic resource for visual learners of German, that uses video to bring the language to life.

Pricing: $8.99 per month, $20.97 per quarter, $59.98 per year

Positives

Unique resource for German
Improves on Memrise's video bites
Incorporates humor into lessons
Mobile apps available

Negatives

There are better options if you need a more detailed German course
Not a lot of free content

Summary

Seedlang takes a popular feature from Memrise (short video snippet lessons) and does it much better, in my opinion. While it's not an overly comprehensive German resource, it does a good job of bringing language snippets to life.

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Someone drew my attention to Seedlang recently and I must say, as a visual-spatial learner, I was impressed.

As a German resource, it’s fantastic.

The concept is very similar to what Memrise does with short video snippets to illustrate words and phrases. Basically, instead of playing an audio track, you play a video of a native speaker pronouncing the expression.

For visual learners like myself, this is extremely helpful (one of my favorite features of Memrise, in fact).

Seedlang does it better than Memrise, but it’s for German only.

The other advantage is that Seedlang injects humor and has a more linear learning track - it’s a properly-designed course (A1 - B2 levels).

There are also games and quizzes built in.

Overall, a great German resource (but not without alternative resources and online courses).