Leave a Review Michel Thomas Language Library
Scam
I bought the lessons through the app and now I can’t access the lessons I paid for. Contacted customer support and haven’t heard anything back from them. Don’t waste your money people work too hard to have someone just take it from them like this.Daylon Bby !
Developer Response
Sorry for the trouble! Please email support@papertrell.com with your device details and the issues you’re facing. We’re keen to fix this for you.french with Michel Thomas
I have alwasy wanted to improve my school bopy French, but have never had an 'ear for languages'. I thought that at 50 I was too old to learn French. Michel showed me i was wrong. His method is just genius! It worlks so well around a busy life - its good for concentrated half hour sessions, but also for snatching five minutes here and there. I have found it especially good when driving. Merci beaucoup, mon Professor.!Show lessKim simpson
Keeps crashing
I love the Michel Thomas method and just purchased the first hour in French but the app keeps crashing. It’s unusable. Hoping to figure out how to get my money back and I’ll just use the web version.t0yodalover
Great content, terrible app
The app is terrible in every sense. It’s utterly unreliable. Pause-restart doesn’t work in background mode half the time. Sometimes it won’t go to next lesson after you finish one. The app crashes frequently. I used to listen to Michel Thomas MP3s back in the day and I miss the stability of that archaic experience. The app adds nothing other than making everything terribly difficult.
The content is great. Which is a shame.Show lessPengker
Amazing course - buggy app
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.Show lessPovilasN
App player not great
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?Show lesshdnxibdjndd
Poor app
The lessons are good but the app is not well made, makes it a hassle to use.edx9999999
I loved this app, as in past tense!
I loved this app and have recommended it to countless friends and colleagues many of whom have gone on to buy it as well. But now I feel terrible because they will be in the same boat I’m in. Upon upgrading my phone, this app won’t download like all the others. There are directions given on what to do if your purchase doesn’t download, which I’ve followed and emailed support with no resolution. So although I love the app and would like to continue my training, it’s too steep a price to have to repurchase every time upgrade my phone and iPad. It’s too bad.Show lessXylem44
Good content - Disaster app
I totally recommend Michel Thomas' audio lessons (his method works!) but this app is a disaster. The play/pause button works in the first few minutes then stops. It also never works on lock screen and the time monitor - which tells you where you are in the lesson - is always off. When you download a full language file, some tracks simply do not play, even though it appears that they have been downloaded. I tried to get around it by deleting and reinstalling the app, but the problem occurs again with different tracks. There is also no way to erase/re-download a track that does not play, so you simply lose so much content because of this faulty app. Not to mention, of course, that there is no way to bookmark where you've reached, mark lessons "done" or track progress in any way.
It's such a shame to waste such a valuable learning method in a cheap and faulty app. Such wasted potential! I hope the company realizes this and invests in more competent developers who can at least develop a decent platform!! (Look at how the Pimsleur app works for example!!).Show lesssalmamw
Great Method App really needs work
The method is very helpful. How ever the app itself really needs improvement! At the beginning he says how important it is for you to pause it but when the iPhone is locked or the app is not open, it does not pause correctly. It takes hitting the pause and play button twice (so 4 presses total) just to pause it when the phone is locked. By that time part of the answer has been given, I am distracted and frustrated. Also when the app is open it glitches up but not as badly. I would recommend putting the time runner (line with the track of the time of the audio) further away from the pause button. It is hard to press pause and not hit the line - and then messing up where I was in the podcast. I have to look at it and be very careful not to mess up the time- which is distracting from the material. Fix these pause/play issues and I would gladly purchase the whole set for the language. But until then it is much too frustrating and distracting.Show lessPurpleSunflowerzz
