Maybe I judged this app too hastily before. I’m coming back to update my review and to say it’s actually pretty good. The reason I gave a premature review earlier is that the app prompted me to leave a review when I was only about 30 minutes into it. In my opinion, a person should have more experience with an app before leaving a review. So I switched my target language to Español and I’ve been happier with learning it. The conversations make more sense now. And the other benefits of this app are still true from what I mentioned before: that the native speakers sound very good, the app gives you plenty of chances to practice, and I love that it teaches both conversations and vocabulary words. Now that I’m learning Spanish I was able to see that there really is a lot of material to learn so I finally decided to subscribe. Also, the Spanish learning course has a lot more instructional videos, and as they say it is good to really take your time in learning it. When you start a new unit and it dives in to teaching you a new conversation, you can take your time and press each word of the sentences you are asked to repeat. When you do this, it sounds out the word for you and even highlights the letters you are hearing. If you do this several times, your pronunciation really will improve. I took high school Spanish for years and I already sound much better than I ever did then. Thanks for making such an incredible app, Faloü!

This is my second review and I’ve been looking at most of the reviews it’s an amazing app and sorry for mentioning Duolingo a lot of the other one but I have been trying to learn Portuguese because most of my family speaks it I’ve been really wanting to learn I’m just nine and they have amazing courses for me to go I said I was nine it’s not gonna be that many hard work and there’s one word I just can’t say it’s meat but in Portuguese it’s a little hard and they keep showing me and showing me because they’re realizing that I can’t say it correctly so they even did a little course and it helped me so much on saying that word this app is amazing it is underrated but the only problem is which a lot of people are occurring is that the voice track thing isn’t working that well I said most of the words perfectly or like I heard it I thought it was that until I just kept saying the same word in the same word and it said wrong and also it’s not a bug but I recommend that maybe when you get it wrong it would make kind of sound not just have it at the bottom so you can know even if you’re wearing headphones and out paying attention you just repeat it not just wait for the little thing to turn it to an X or the checkmark

This app doesn’t just teach you new words, it actually gives you the context in which you would use them by having all the language lessons take place in conversations. It’s not tedious like Duolingo, where you can spend so much time just trying to keep your language tree gold and studying vocabulary. It’s more complete than babel, which I found expensive and left gaps in my understanding of the language as a beginner. This app is priced for about $150 a year, but I was so happy they gave me a decent discount so I could afford my first year! I’m serious about learning French as well, and I personally find the subscription a good incentive to make the most of this language learning tool. This is the most straight forward conversation based language learning app I’ve tried yet Edit: So I’ve been on the app for about 2 days now and I would like to report a bug. It seems that in the French course the microphone is not working. It will glitch out and stop picking up sound sometimes. I will have to skip the word or phrase so that I can continue with the lesson, but sometimes that doesn’t fix it and I will have to turn my phone off and on. I also don’t know if this is a bug, or due to my pronunciation, but sometimes I will get stuck on a word and no matter how I say it, it will not progress. I appreciate the high bar for pronunciation but it makes it difficult when it gets to the point where I don’t know the difference between the way I’ve been saying it vs what the app wants. I would love to see a pronunciation guide so that I know what I am doing wrong. Some kind of tool that could correct me would be great. Though it may just be a matter of adjusting the sensitivity on the microphone given that there are other issues with the microphone function.

I just got the app and already subscribed to the 1 year PRO to see how I liked it. So far, I noticed that most of the content is based on travel or business. As someone who wants to learn spanish to converse with spanish-speaking friends, this is unhelpful to me. It’s very boring too. I also accidentally started too far ahead in the Spanish course, and it will not allow me to go back to the easier levels. I’m stuck in the intermediate and don’t know enough to really engage my memory at all. I wish there was a way to reset progress in order to fix this mistake but I feel like I just paid to be stuck not understanding anything. I also noticed that the listening portion of the app does not give any subtitles or anything to help me make sure I’m understanding what is being said. I just kind of have to listen and hope I know what’s going on. There’s a lot that could be improved about this app; and when people are spending good money to use it, there needs to be more flexibility. Not allowing us to backtrack to earlier levels of difficulty is inconvenient, not giving context in listening activities is also inconvenient, and only teaching spanish in business or travel contexts is boring and unhelpful to those wanting to learn for pleasure. If these issues were fixed, this app would be awesome! I see a lot of potential, I just hope these issues are addressed soon.