Michel Thomas Language Library

I love the content, but the app is REALLY letting the user down. Pausing fails most times, and you need to pause often in this app. And the downloading is excruciatingly slow, like dial up speed. I’m on a 300mb/s wifi and after an hour it’s still puttering along. Painful!!!!

The app is not working properly and now for some reason every time I go from track 74 to track 75 the app shuts down completely. In general, the app doesn’t autoplay from track to track. It also doesn’t pause correctly. This is reallyRuining the experience of learning this language for me and the actual course is good it’s just the app doesn’t work.

I keep trying to listen but the download of the lesson just simply won’t work. Yet I keep trying as though something magic will happen if I try again. Putting it aside. Disappointed.

So far so good! Loving my Greek lessons and my Greek has improved already

Purchased the foundation Italian course but the app crashes every time I try to use. I have written to the customer support but had no response. Do not purchase or waste your money on this.

The course is amazing, this review is for the app!!! The audio player in the app has several buggs that kill the purpose of using the app. The pause button is often unresponsive and the progress bar not in sync with the recording. While listening to the recording phone screen locks so it becomes impossible to pause unless using a headset. As reported other reviews the headset does not help much because of laggy/unresponsive pausing. The UI is poorly designed to say the least. The player buttons take maybe 10% of the screen space while useless image takes up 90%. It seems that very little consideration went into designing and developing the app. Experienced software develop could fix the mentioned issues in a day… Such a shame that the app does not do justice to the course.

Not a review of the content of the language courses (which are great). The player in the app is just a bit bad….. I use an iPhone 11 and pause/playing from my airpod pros doesn’t always work with this player, which results in not being able to pause in time to do an exercise, then having to open the app, rewind etc. the only way to get the play/pause function to consistently work for me is to have the app open, which is a drain on battery and is a pain when walking around, for example. I’m not a developer but this seems like quite an easy thing to fix? Or just let us have the mp3s so that we can play on a better player?

This could be good content but the app is so badly build that the lessons don’t load and keep on crashing. So far I have not been able to access more than 20% of the content. I tried to uninstall the app and install it again which unlocked 2 more lessons. But when I tried it a second time the App blocked me completely saying I cannot have the app on more than 5 devices. I only have it on the same one!!! I tried to contact customer support but the website crashes. I emailed them but no reaction. On top of wasting your money on an absolutely frustrating app you get to waste your time on non existing customer support too! Better try anything else from YouTube to Doulingo or Verbling.

Compared to Duolingo these language apps are way overpriced. I bought Greek, Arabic and Spanish at great expense a few years ago. Michel Thomas only did the Spanish one and there is no doubt he has a gift for teaching. The Greek course also has an excellent teacher but only covers the basics. Inexplicably the developers deleted the sound files and made the courses unavailable (despite having paid for them) I would be very wary of buying any as likely to be deleted again by the developers. The only advantage of the MT method is that you can listen to them while driving as there are no buttons to press and less interaction. That’s probably not a good thing anyway.

Lots of taps to get to the lesson. The audio does not keep the location. Some audio downloads but does not play. Slow on my pro max 13 iPhone. Very poor app.