Tedious but effective. This app requires you to put the work in time results. I’ve seen decent results with constant practice.

The Assimil app is very confusing to use, not reliable, and just frustrating to use. It took several attempts of trying to trial a course by clicking the same button. The lesson layout is not intuitive and I can’t select answers for the multiple choice questions.

Assimil, you are a French company! How is it that you still have not made your advanced French course (Using French or whatever you are calling it now) available for purchase??!

I’m a huge fan of Assimil for starting a new language. For clarity: Assimil publishes these courses in books and recordings; Mantano delivers that same content via this and the related apps. This app is a straight transcription of the book and recordings. The convenience and simplicity of doing it through the app would make it marginally better than the book+recordings format. However, it only works maybe a third of the time the time. Most mornings, I get up, open the app, and watch the pinwheel-of-death spin for five minutes or so. Then I give up and get out the book and play the recordings from my phone while reading along. (Which is essentially all the app does.) This is really frustrating since the Assimil approach works best if you do one lesson per day religiously. Bottom line: I feel like I paid for the course in Spanish twice - once through Mantano and once through a reputable online bookseller. I regret wasting the money at Mantano. However, if you really want to teach yourself a language, I can’t praise Assimil enough.