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I initially rated this app 5 stars before because it has a nice design and emphasizes practicing your listen and writing skills and speaking accurately. Now, however, I have noticed that there are other things about this app that are lacking. I already know a lot of French from taking 4 years of it in school but I wanted to start practicing again because I’m starting to lose it. Because I already have a lot of experience, the app isn’t completely terrible for me but from what I’ve seen I don’t think this app is that good for beginners. It doesn’t really break things down for someone that would like to learn how to form sentences and communicate well in a new language. If you start using it without already knowing some vocabulary, verb conjugations, and sentences structure, it will likely take you a while to figure it out if you’re using solely this app. I’m probably going to keep using it but I thought it was important to give this warning.

After the issue where the app stopped working, the Falou team worked very hard to restore my streak, which I appreciate so much. That said, there is still a lot this app can improve on, like offering streak saves in the event of another issue (much like Duolingo and Drops both have). The vocabulary practice is nice, but the voice recognition needs some improvement. I’m working on German, and while it recognizes “seibzehnte” and “achtzehnte”, “sechszehnte” and “neunzehnte” never seem to hear the -te on the end of the words. Others have mentioned that the speaking is merely memorization of specific phrases, which is true, and while it gives a good idea of how the words work together, I wouldn’t say it’s really teaching you the language. Overall I think it’s a decent app if you’re using it to reinforce language learning, but I wouldn’t say it should be your main app for doing so.

I’m learning Spanish and this a great app for learning new vocabulary and simple things. Sometimes they bombard you with long sentences that are near impossible to complete. Which I feel needs to NOT be in there. Maybe break the sentences up then later put them together for the longer sentence. Recently an update came where they added a listening and speaking session that is EXTREMELY irritating, especially when you’ve already completed folders, they’re now not done. It’s so boring so say “hola”… “buenos”……”días”…. And if anything it discourages me from using the app. There’s no skip option on one of them so you HAVE to do it. It’s a good app sometimes, but I feel like the creators don’t know what they’re doing and are focusing on the wrong areas. Good focuses are ACTUALLY FIXING THE APP. When I’m doing the speech parts (yes including all the easy ones that are pointless) won’t hear a word and say the entire sentence is wrong. When saying “buenos” literally a one worded part, said I got it wrong, so you have to shout your words and basically say it the wrong way so the app thinks you’re correct. But instead the developers like to focus on random bitmoji aspects and things that just ruin the app in the end. It’s a good app for certain tools, but definitely frustrating and confusing at times.