Lingopie vs News in Slow French

Lingopie teaches languages through TV shows, movies, cartoons, podcasts, news, books, and audiobooks. It is available on the web, Android, and iOS, with mobile apps, offline lessons, speech practice, and personalized review. Interactive subtitles let learners click words to see translations, then revisit saved vocabulary through flashcards and quizzes. Other tools include dual subtitles, an AI-powered pronunciation coach, adjustable playback speed, and grammar tips. Short stories include native narration, highlighted words, hover-over translations, and click-to-save vocabulary. Lingopie describes level-matched content and practice for beginners, intermediate learners, and advanced learners. A subscription includes unlimited access to more than 5,000 TV shows, podcasts, and books across 15 languages; the service says it offers 17 languages overall. Subscribers can join a Discord community and take group lessons. Lingopie for Schools lets teachers assign age-appropriate content, manage classes, and track student progress. A seven-day free trial provides access to all content, languages, and features. Subscriptions renew automatically until canceled; cancellation stops billing for the next cycle while access continues through the current billing period.

News in Slow French teaches listening comprehension to beginner through advanced French learners with audio, transcripts and explanations. Weekly news episodes are available at beginner, intermediate and advanced levels, with more than a dozen original stories added across those levels each week. Other formats include dialogues, articles, commentary, original series and courses. Study tools include beginner and grammar courses, idiomatic expressions, interactive transcripts, quizzes, pronunciation practice and vocabulary flashcards. Rooms offers live conversation practice and workshops. The mobile app supports customized playlists for offline listening, and Alexa commands can play episodes, rewind, skip and navigate segments. Each lesson includes a free portion of audio and transcript, with sample content across levels. A 7-day trial of Full Access is available to first-time subscribers; billing starts when it ends unless canceled. Audio Only costs $6.90 a month and includes audio and Rooms, without transcripts, lessons or quizzes. Full Access costs $22.90 a month and includes audio, transcripts with contextual translations, Rooms, lessons, quizzes and all levels and resources. The service runs on Android, iOS and web.