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by TroisMilleMots

Don't see a new word for months. Very difficult to stay motivated and I am sick and tired of seeing and hearing the same sentences over and over. It’s better to read with a dictionary. Please consider giving an option to select how many new words I want to see in a 50 word stack. Otherwise, your system is a waste of time. Fast progress in the beginning and essentially no progress after 3K words even if I am studying every day. The more words are learned, the more words need to be reenforced. At 3K words, a state is reached when the application gives 50 repeat words a day and only occasionally a few new words. Makes no sense. Another extreme annoyance is an accumulation of old words to repeat if I take a break. Do you think it’s reasonable that 2week vacation puts me in a situation to repeat 6 months of learning ? With such an algorithm, nobody would finish school. Please fix these annoyances. I payed for a full license and I am not happy.

by PA-viewer

I’ve been using the app steadily since Spring 2021. It’s decent. They just did an upgrade, though, and the slots for the words no longer fit the word properly. I read some previous reviews and noted that other users said they wanted this change so it would force them to use their brain to remember the word. So I guess it’s good that they listen to their users. But the slots are all kinds of various sizes now - not a standard blank line/box. It’s a little haphazard to me so I’ve adjusted by not even looking at the sentence. I just look at the English word and type the French word without looking at the box because I hate how it looks now. So basically I’ve just made them flash cards. I guess I’ll see if that helps my memory. The boxes that actually fit the words helped me because if I thought of several synonyms, the size of the box would lead me to the appropriate synonym. I have the yearly subscription $80 but I don’t think I’ll renew because it’s not giving me $80 worth of value. It’s flash cards with random sized boxes at this point.

by Rebecca M Scott

I like the idea of this app, but I’m just not learning with it. Since I’ve been using this app I have been learning one or two words per day. I have found that I get tired very quickly as I do the deck of cards. I do not look forward to doing lessons; it’s a chore. With the same amount of time spent on other apps I can learn 15 words and some new grammer rules and I’m not as tired at the end of the session and want to do multiple sessions per day.
I think maybe they need to break up the decks into lessons or organize them some way. How it’s organized now, one card might be in the present tense and about clothes shopping. Then the next card is future tense and about the church. It’s all over the place. I’m not seeing any patterns. As it’s designed now, it seems like it would be a good app for someone who is already fluent and wants to learn a couple new vocabulary words.
It’s a big disappointment that I’m not learning with this app because I think it has a lot of potential.