Michel Thomas Language Library

I bought lots of courses, up to 9. Lost it all as I bought a new cellphone even though my email address is the same. I have the CDs but unfortunately not a portable cd player so I bought the lessons AGAIN and lost it. Very disappointed!! When you purchase it it seems like you buy the lesson to keep- nope. Do not offload the app either or everything is lost!!

The method is enjoyable but the app is absolute garbage. First - it is essentially a poor Audioplayer. It literally has the functionality of a Walkman - and nothing more. But worse than that: I’ve repeatedly run into issues playing a track (in that it will not play) the only solution seems to be to delete the track … and the only way I found was to delete the ENTIRE COURSE … mind you - it is entirely possible to download a single track … but not to delete it. Apart from that the UX is a bit of a joke. With all the great free apps out there one has to wonder - how does such an app even exist?

Be careful! I bought a language package for 160€ then they changed the Michel Thomas App and since then I don’t have access to my purchases. I wrote an email to the support but never got a reply.

Firstly, the course content is great, 5*! But the app is really just a basic audio player. The absolute bare minimum required to deliver the content. E.g: - No tracking of progress / completed tracks - the track numbers do not match the course note headings - 30sec rewind is too long. 15 sec would be better - no quizzes, like there are in the beginners app - also, would be great to be able to mark a track so that you can return to it later - for the more difficult sections.

Wenn man den runtergeladenen Track abspielen möchte, stürzt die App sofort ab. (iOS 13.1.1) Update: Seit dem letzten Update stürzt die App nicht mehr ab.

Nach dem Update ist der Bug mit den Abstürzen behoben. Danke und Daumen hoch!

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.