With a subscription you can make your own phrasebook, but you can’t test yourself on it. But to do the practice games I have to learn all. I do want to ask how they are and say happy birthday, etc, but I don’t have interest in asking them where the atm is or whether I should boil the water. My frustration is that I only really want to learn a few phrases in a topic. The native voices differentiating for male and female is nice, The games are good practice without being boring, though the memory game is unnecessarily hard. I used it traveling in Albania and Bosnia and it really helped. You won’t learn a language on this app, there’s no development or explanation, it is a phrasebook only. This is the only app I could find which gives access to learn basic phrases in all of them (add quiche and kosrae please). And in the school where I teach the main languages are spanish, vietnamese, somali, oromo, amheric, tagalog, punjabi, samoan and more. I love being able to explore so many languages. And fourth, they have terrific support, and I don't want to suggest I've had any major problems with the eurotalk or uTalk products but I have on occasion had the odd question or two and I've never been disappointed by the friendliness and quality of response I've gotten from their support team. Some other products I know when I use them I'm going to need a much longer chunk of time before I get to a convenient stopping point and end up deciding against doing it as a result. I can pop in and do a little bit of practice in a short time. Third, the exercises tend to be relatively short, often taking 5 minutes or less. They have had every language that I've wanted to explore. Second, the range of languages is much greater than their main competitors by a wide margin. First, relatively speaking they are not nearly as expensive as some of their competitors. There are four things that really draw me to uTalk and their earlier eurotalk products. As an enthusiastic user of over a dozen languages in the company's earlier Talk Now! app and related products for PCs and Macs it's interesting to see the evolution to the current uTalk app.