Falou - Fast language learning Reviews

by Kay Nox

I initially rated Falou 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 Falou 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, Falou isn’t completely terrible for me but from what I’ve seen I don’t think Falou 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 Falou. I’m probably going to keep using it but I thought it was important to give this warning.

by AikoKinnn

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 Falou . 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 Falou . 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 Falou thinks you’re correct. But instead the developers like to focus on random bitmoji aspects and things that just ruin Falou in the end.

It’s a good app for certain tools, but definitely frustrating and confusing at times.

by Aesthetickris

I wanted to practice my Korean speaking skills since due to COVID-19 I haven’t had any opportunities to practice and improve. I started by using the business course and it was fine. However, I took a look at the language taught in the other courses and I was shocked. The scenario was supposed to be running into a stranger on the street, but the phrases taught were completely casual language and just seem like they were put through a translator. In Korea, casual language on the first meeting is a big NO, and I feel that teaching this to beginners with no prior knowledge of Korean culture or the honorific system is super dangerous. You’re putting new language learners on a road to humiliation when they are supposed to feel proud of themselves the first time they speak in a new language. Please consider having your lessons checked by native speakers before you release them.

by RicechexK

After the issue where Falou stopped working, the this app team worked very hard to restore my streak, which I appreciate so much. That said, there is still a lot Falou 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.

by Lilou542

I think this is a very good app. It has been helpful in my language learning. Even when you have only spent a little time on it, it already helps.
Definitely learning to speak sooner is helpful. Often when you start a language, speaking it can feel a lot more daunting then the other parts. But we need to at least try, even if it is only in the comfort of our room for a while. If you learn pronunciation first, it sets you up for stronger success as you go through the process.
The only reason I don’t give a full five stars is because there seems to be a little problem.
From time to time there will be a word or phrase that I certainly said correctly and yet it still puts the x and I can’t move forward. I know that I said it correctly because I showed to my friend who it is their native language. It’s a bit frustrating to be stuck when it is certain I had not said it wrong.

by Shchreech

First off, I really like Falou and the way it’s formatted for learning. I just finished my trial and am planning on purchasing, it’s better than a lot of them out there. The two problems that I see with it are these:
1. It doesn’t seem to have a method in place to practice weak words without redoing entire lessons.
2. (And this is the one that bothers me, as you can tell from the title) voice analysis is a LARGE component of Falou, and its just not great. Here’s what keeps happening to me: I’m learning Japanese, right? Japanese has three alphabets, all the sounds are the same, but the characters are different. So Falou will have me record myself saying 卵 (pronounced tamago). I say it. Then Falou says wrong! My analysis is that you said たまご!! (Which is ALSO pronounced tamago). It’s just some kind of flawed programming but it’s pretty frustrating.

But aside from those things, I think it’s a great app so far.

by Kiana Dimas Deleon

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 Falou 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

by Andressp2022

I’m not going to write a huge review, but I wanna say I recently got hooked onto Falou and it is very good to use, especially to help
build conversational skills in your target language, add new vocabulary to your brain’s dictionary, and even audios of conversations. But, there is one thing I want to point out, and that is the audio for vocabulary words. There’s times where most of the words are pronounced but there are at least 2-3 words that don’t have audio and I don’t know how to pronounce those words. Please look into fixing this, not sure if anyone else is experiencing this but it would help myself and the other users of Falou.
Thank you!

by Jahjdie

I love Falou because I always wanted to speak Spanish and this is helping me so quick I love Falou so much and everyone should get it if you’re running to lawn certain and ink I love Falou because I always wanted to speak Spanish and this is helping me so quick I love this out so much and everyone should get it in your body to learn a certain in like I don’t know language do you want to learn a certain kind of language then get this out because it has over 18 languages is so great everyone should get it is so fun and so easy and it’s not even real people that you’re talking to so you can just talk in there it is like a robot that comes over it is so fun get Falou

by Jimmy.Barto1995

I’m the kind of person that downloads all the apps from Falou Store looking for the ones that really help improve on something. I’m thankful I finally found Falou!! I’ve always had a hard time learning French, in fact, I had French classes in school for over 4 years and couldn’t speak anything, only basic sentences. It’s great to finally have an app that pushes me to speak and help me improve my pronunciation. And it really works!! Whenever I make a mistake it tells me exactly what’s wrong so I can fix it, and when I try for the second time I always get it right! It’s so motivating! I’m finally building confidence to speak so it’s helping me with my French classes as well. My friends are like “how can you speak French and I can’t!”... I didn’t share Falou with them yet! LOL But I will because it’s now my favorite language learning app ever. Thanks for this guys! I really enjoy this “new method” you came up with. I think all people should give Falou a go. It might not be for everyone but I’m sure it will help somehow. Thanks again! Sorry for the long message. Lol

by OK But Don't Need You

First of all I would just like to say that Falou gives you a free trial and if you don’t want to you don’t have to and also it’s really good because it always tells you what you need to learn and what you don’t need to learn right now I am in middle school and I really really really want to learn Spanish I’m taking a Spanish class but my teacher is not helping at all because she’s half Italian and half English or in other words American and sometimes it messes her up a lot so I use Falou to make her think she’s helping and I have a pretty good grade in it so far thank you so much for Falou please download it if you’re trying to learn any language! Sorry if it’s too long bye!

by Naa-Sewaa

I just downloaded Falou today and so far so good but it’s annoying to have to find the cancel button every 5 minutes to cancel the promotion for premium. Whether the person chooses to get or not to get premium is up to them. It should not be repetitive or come off as being ‘forced’ onto the user. Some people who may not have English as their first language may click on it and be charged or get frustrated because they’re not as tech savvy. Especially if they’re trying to learn another language and keep dealing with this. We all don’t have money to spend on premium.
It’s a great app, please don’t ruin it for those/us that use it.

by Jean Jacket Pepper

This is the best app I have on my phone I learned so much different languages in like a day it’s oh really good app you should use it it teaches me so much hopefully if you try it I will teach you as much as it did to me you should really try Falou and this is a kid telling you this it is so good I’m learning Spanish right now and it is going great I’m a kid writing this but it’s true Falou is amazing you can get some questions wrong but it teaches you a lot you have to try it ... it’s the best thing ever...(everybody’s trying Falou it is so good!) Falou is amazing it teaches you so much things it is great if you want to learn a new language can I ask you questions

by Racoon157

I was learning Japanese with Duolingo and some other apps and besides the limits and fewer languages, I can say I am pretty impressed by how better this is. While you don’t learn you to write Japanese neither does it teach you other things like grammar, sentence structure, and Kanji that are also important to learning Japanese surely it dosen’t make you 100% fluent but it is great for learning most Japanese that you need, not just the basics. this app I think did a great job but no grammar, how the words are used, and other stuff it does teach you a large portion of Japanese that you need to go even further and learn required things such as grammar and Kanji. At least I can say it is fairly ok, but not the worst. It is not the best app and cannot fully teach a language like they said but it does help!

by Oliva Dawson2515452$72

I absolutely love this app , it helps so much and is so amazing at giving instructions and letting you know that it’s OK to be incorrect. They are very good about not being too harsh and letting you know that it’s OK to not know everything on your first day. They are so helpful when it comes to mispronunciation they let you know in a kind and helpful way and give you step-by-step instructions on how to prevent and fix it. They give you real life conversations and help you learn as many languages as you want. I love this app so much because it is such an amazing experience so helpful and it is very efficient and super easy to catch onto. this app has made learning Italian so easy for me and now I can finally talk to some of my older family members.

by Sleepyboi91

Falou is a great supplement to all of the language learning apps I already use. This one is really focused on speaking, which is present in Duolingo (which I have used for years) but I really appreciate the different approach that Falou brings you. Things like transitioning between lessons, interactive and adorable little characters showing up on screen, and even just having a streamlined user interface really add up to making a good app. I really appreciate that the speaking exercises are built around conversation, whereas Duolingo definitely listens to your pronunciation, I feel like all of the things I learn to say we’re in a vacuum within a lesson. Again, like I said, both of these apps are really great companion pieces to each other, and I’m happy to be using both.

by ???????????????,???????

When I first got this I was like “why would I get this it’s just gonna be one of those thing where they say amazing things in the ad then are awful”when I started using I was begging to like it befor I wouldn’t use anything but Duolingo but I’m LOVING at his app and you only have to pay for extra stuff so for people with tight budgets THIS IS GREAT you can use lessons for free and not that many ads so far is I choose this or Duolingo I would choose this but for now I’ll use both but for people with tight budgets or people having trouble learning and being stressed out like me this is great and unlike Duolingo you can practice your mistakes FOR FREE Duolingo says there mission is to make education but Falou just blew it out of the water I’m so glad I saw you ad everybody needs to download this

by Gkm Candy

I’ve only started Falou a day ago and it’s worked amazingly! It gives you real situations that might happen, and I think that’s the best way to learn a language. Here’s the problem, today I went back to this app I started completing the lessons(I’m doing Japanese) and I got to “shopping” everything was fine until it asked me to say kakudo, I said it exactly like the example but every time it would say I said kadudo or something completely different. It might very well be that I just said it wrong. I know it’s a small problem but I just wanted to tell anyone interested in Japanese. I made a goal to get all of them right just to make sure I can memorize but I guess I’m just going to have to skip this one. And again Falou is amazing and I totally recommend so just because of one word not working don’t think it’s bad! 😊

by Nefarious Keren

I enjoy Falou very much. It teaches in a way that for me makes me memorize things a lot easier, all while still being fun to use. ^^ Their lessons are mixed with speaking, writing, and listening drills that are full of useful topics, and things you will ACTUALLY need to know in basic all the way to upper advanced conversations! As well the little encouraging emoji people in Falou are cute lol. Another thing I really like about it, is that it monitors how much time you’ve spent learning on each individual language, so you can better track your time spent studying, and to me that’s really awesome. It also awards you with certificates for completing different hours worth of time spent studying, and that gives me something extra to strive for within Falou .

Update: I’ve used this app for little over 1 year now, and I feel like it has helped me a good bit. Specifically the speaking lessons!

by Jean Deloris

So..I’ve been trying different language learning apps until now and I MUST say that this app is the best one I’ve found! That’s just my opinion. Honestly, it’s a great starting place and language practice tool to have when first encountering a new language because it allows you to get to the fun part faster: SPEAKING. In the first five lessons, you’re already speaking the essential phrases of them language: hola…¿cómo estás?…muchas gracias…te veo pronto…if you don’t know what these phrases mean, you should start the Spanish Course on this app!

Falou is really helping me to learn very quickly because it gets easier to learn when the program is fun and challenging. I’m currently learning Spanish and brushing up on German (Hallo! Wie gehts?). I have to say…this app has taken me to a new world of languages - and I can even learn Korean, Japanese and Russian! I’m so grateful for Falou because it has helped me a lot to speak with some friends of mine and is a lot fun to consume Spanish content on the internet…so everything I’m getting from Spanish is because of this app! Thanks this app team you’re doing a fantastic job!

by 👩🏽‍🦱💍😭

It says that I can use Falou with limited access but as soon as I get on Falou it makes me do a trial when I don’t want to I wanna do it with limited access

by Ms.J.J

I can’t go into Falou without starting a free trial or paying. In the description it says that Falou is free to download with limited access but I didn’t assume that it would mean that I can’t even go into Falou . Does anyone know how I can fix mine?

by Charliehdez1187

The changes they made seemed to come out of nowhere.

by Sky3Rose

Nice and pretty app, great concept has you speaking from the start! The voice recognition leaves a lot to be desired, even in English (my native language) Falou claimed I was pronouncing things wrong, despite numerous inflections and tones.

by Cheyanne Green

Great app but in my personal opinion I think you should add my languages like korean

by Cool Fire Bella

It gives you real life situations, and helps you learn at the same time!

by C Money45

It really helped me speaking Spanish. I never even speaker Spanish and Falou helped

by Jeon Sorim

Amazing! Falou helps your pronouncing and improve language skill!

by Vickymations

I love Falou so much. With practice the pronunciation becomes a piece of cake. This is so helpful

by Elis0310

Thank you for Falou

by Nicmace

I thought it was going to be some boring translation type of thing but it’s not. You are having a conversation.

by Bhaddiebabygirl

Omg it amazing I am 13 and I love it make me want to learn mor e

by Beiba69

I like Falou

by Farahjaber

I am fluent with english but i find it fun and for those who are not good in english believe me it is helpful