Teach Yourself Library

I have been using this app a lot for both reading and the audio. For some reason, it has been randomly closing on both of my devices(iPhone and iPad Air) when I’m using it. It says it is up-to-date and it wasn’t doing this until recently. Please help

This app is an iPad app that was made available for macos with no extra effort to actually support macos. You can't even use the arrow keys to turn pages! There's nothing in the menus other than stock commands. What little UI exists is a mystery. Clicking near the edges of pages goes forward and back, sure, but there are things in my book that look like buttons, and clicking them...pages forward and back. There's no way to pop directly from the guts of a book to my whole collection (supplemental audio for the book). Visual affordances are utterly lacking. Sometimes clicking on the page makes text appear or disappear on the page instead of paging forward or backward—I have no idea why! Book content that should really be shown together onscreen is broken across pages, so I have to go back and forth too much. Also, the default font is incredibly tiny, and opening the font settings and clicking the larger A changes the margins and line spacing, but the font remains the exact same size. That's...not helpful. Then I opened the Advanced submenu and suddenly the font got bigger. Yay? Some of the controls on that menu don't do what they promise, but at least I got the font size upped. Reading the book I bought is going to be a struggle, and I doubt I'll be buying any more for use in this app.

This is easily the least stable app on my phone and the worst e-reader I have encountered. It doesn’t stay open for more than a few minutes without crashing. It doesn’t save your progress where you left off on books, so every time you open the app it’s a race against time to page flip back to where you left off to make any meaningful progress before the app crashes and you have to do it all over again. The only thing saving this from being a 1-star review is that the actual content of the books is quite good.

Great app! If it had track repeat I’d give it five stars.

This is a terrible iPad app. It won’t let me sign in. No problem with other apps. It won’t even let me rate it with 1 star.

Overall this is a great app. It has many different languages that go along with the complete book with the language you are learning. Or you can simply just learn by listening. It has many different options and you can buy things if you so choose. The unfortunate thing is that it is a glitchy app. I have to hit pause twice, sometimes skipping 30 seconds twice, and it is extremely slow. Beyond the overall performance of the app, my reason for docking a star, I give it a four out of five stars.

I really enjoyed the lesson but all of a sudden it disappeared from my iPhone. I would like it back on my iPhone as well as on my iPad. Thank you.

I find this app helpful in learning how to say words in Hindi. Just started but think I can learn from this. Kosye Jo

I’d like this better if there was more of a pause to practice repeating what has been said.

Certainly a big help in trying to master a new language as I am able to hear the pronunciation and accent.