Overall this is a very effective language learning system. You take a quick placement quiz to get you in the right part of the lesson plan. I feel they got my level right, especially once I had a few days in. It was challenging but I could do it. The spoken material is clear and often accompanied by video. It is real people speaking, and not cartoon voices. That’s a big deal. Each lesson builds new skills while reinforcing the fundamentals. There is a streak/league component but there is no pressure with it. The leagues are there to give you an idea of how much study you are doing, and how consistent you are. Do three lessons a day and you will be in the bronze/silver range. Don’t sweat it. The quirks are more about the interface. After you answer certain questions some of the pop up boxes cover up the example so you can’t see how you answered. You can only click to move to the next one. Some of the word fill-in questions won’t let you undo the word placement. It wouldn’t hurt to provide feedback option if you think there is an error or problem with a question. These things are minor and seem to be worse on the iPad interface. None of it has a big impact on the learning side. I just hope they keep working on UI.

Excellent app for reviewing/ refreshing any prior knowledge, plus learning new. One can get back up to speed much more quickly than with say Duolingo which is painfully slow. As another mentioned, I didn’t know I could delete certain vocabulary words to not waste time with them. Another issue is that you can get an exercise right, and click to continue but realize there was additional explanation in that “correct” screen that you missed. Pavlov’s dogs… the “correct” chimes moves our fingers to hit “continue” immediately. I wish there was a way to go back a screen. The same goes for the pages with a bunch of info or rules. Sometimes I want to scroll back to review it again, but that’s not possible. Also, there’s no way to flag errors. One recurring error is very irritating, because you ask this question many times and many ways, half the time you want it answered one way, and the other half another way. It was even on the A2 exam, and marked me wrong. “Choose the 4 words that indicate an action in progress”. Être en train de + verb …. Half the time it wanted those first 4 words… the other half it wanted you to choose “en train de +verb”. It’s such a great app!!!… I hope you will work on the bugs though and give a way for customer feedback. I shouldn’t have to put it in a review

This program gets right to the point, and gives the impression that you’re learning quite quickly. Vocabulary is absorbed and spat out at breakneck speed. I prefer the pace to Duolingo’s snail’s pace. However the content feels a little silly for the learning level I’m at. The app seems almost exclusively geared to upper middle class business people in what it talks about. Lots of office-related vocabulary, and the people in the example photos are conventionally attractive magazine types. For my level (beginner) and my job (musician), this type of vocabulary is really not what I need to learn at all. It seems as though the people who program the app are doing it with Sims in mind, gearing content towards sitcom people who don’t exist in real life. The conversations in the examples are always between a male and female speaker in their mid 30s. In the beginning content, I would love to learn about the names of the rooms in a house, how to get directions and what a street is called. I works like more in depth info on how to talk about family members or people of different age groups. This fast pace gives the impression of learning quickly, but in actuality there are huge gaps in the learning and it feels a little silly to be learning how to talk about meetings in the board room when I can’t say ‘door’ or ‘hallway’.