The short version
Best AI Language Learning is a for-profit website. Many of our posts contain affiliate links: when you sign up for an app or course through one of them, we may earn a commission. Using our link never costs you more than going to the company directly, and some partners give our readers a discount or a longer free trial than you would get on their own site.
Commissions pay for the testing and writing. They do not decide what we recommend, the order apps appear in, or the scores we give.
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We keep the site free of display ads. Pages full of banners are harder to read, and a clean, easy read is the whole point of a review site. Affiliate commissions are how we cover our costs instead.
We test before we recommend
We only recommend apps and courses we have tested ourselves. We use them as part of our own language learning, usually for months, and watch whether they actually help before we write about them. In every review we try to say clearly who a tool is for and who it is not for.
One exception: in roundups for a specific language, we sometimes include a product we have assessed carefully but have not used to learn that particular language. Usually we have used it properly for another language, so we know how it works and where it falls short. When that is the case, we say so in the post.
For our app rankings, scores come from a weighted method that combines a focus group, our specialists, reader surveys, community submissions, social media posts and app store reviews. See our methodology and how we tested AI speaking apps.
Who pays for the apps we test
We pay for most of the apps, courses and lessons we test with our own money. Some companies now give us free access so we can test their products properly; sometimes we ask, sometimes they offer. Free access pays for testing, not for a recommendation. Some products we were given access to never appeared in a post, and several of the tools we recommend most are ones we have paid for ourselves for years.
Commissions don't change our recommendations
- If the best tool for a language or situation has no affiliate programme, or is free, it still goes in the post.
- Commission rates vary a lot between companies. They have no influence on rankings, scores or the order products appear in.
- We turn down affiliate offers for products we don't believe in. A recommendation we don't stand behind would earn once and cost us our readers' trust.
- If we ever have an ownership stake or another business relationship with a product we review, we state it in that post.
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