Disappointing errors, very disappointing response.
I used the in-app report to let MosaLingua know there were errors in some extremely basic parts of their Arabic course, and their response was "oh we'll fix that in a future update"; that was three weeks ago and the errors are still there. I appreciate that it takes time to fix this stuff, but I cannot overstate how egregious these errors were. (Also frankly, no paid app should be relying on free labour from the people who have paid for the service (and who are largely beginners in these languages!) to fix basic errors like this - these things should have been seen and fixed before the course was ever released! - but that's a whole different argument. In the meantime, errors this bad should be a priority and be fixed as soon as humanly possible.) I've been casually learning Arabic for about a year now, my Arabic is still very elementary. However, when I click on something where the audio is wildly at odds with what it's supposed to be, I have enough confidence in my abilities to be able to go okay, the audio is wrong; many less experienced language learners will not, and will either learn incorrectly or will assume they have misunderstood when they haven't. For context, these are the errors I pointed out, all in the very first section of the course. Text reads شكرا shukran "thank you" Audio? نعم na3am "yes" Text reads نعم na3am "yes" Audio? لا laa "no" (literally not just a totally different audio, but it means the OPPOSITE!) Text reads لا laa "no" Audio? يا yaa "O" - the vocative particle, essentially a particle you use when addressing someone (you may have heard Arabic speakers saying ya Rabb, O Lord! or ya Allah, O Allah! But they're also used to address someone in MSA) I only know يا from studies elsewhere, and the only reason I have the ability to go "wait no, this audio is just wrong" is because I'm an experienced language learner with the knowledge and confidence to trust that sometimes, it's not me, it's them! Honestly I could understand errors like this if it were further on in the course - it's my understanding that MosaLingua Arabic has only been available for around a year, and as such I imagine relatively few people have gone through the whole thing. But we're talking things as simple as yes and no being wrong in the very first lessons they offer in this language! Imagine I was an inexperienced learner; imagine I had never encountered the Arabic alphabet before. How on earth would I be able to make sense of the alphabet when these very
