#clozemaster

Now that I have a 100 day streak on Clozemaster I thought I should do a review. 

Clozemaster is a gamified vocabulary building app based off material from Tatoeba (a free database of example sentences). The developer said it aims to answer the question “What should I do after Duolingo?”. It seems best suited for intermediate learners so I have only been using it for Korean and not Japanese. 

Positives

• More enjoyable than flashcard apps.
• The free version doesn’t have ads and you can use it perfectly well. 
• Wide variety of sentences and vocab - even swear words. 
• Decent amount of content for Korean. 
• Korean audio is decent (though a tad emotionless). 
  

Negatives

• Most of the negatives come from the fact that everything is getting pulled from Tatoeba without any human review.
• People’s names like 톰 come up as a key word or occasionally only part of a foreign word is used as a key word.
• Occasionally get these ridiculously long sentences (like the screenshot above). 

Overall I think its worth a go - especially if you want to work on your vocabulary but find flashcard apps boring / dislike learning words without any context.