Leave a Review Michel Thomas Language Library
Ridiculously expensive
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.Show lessAgatha-jane
You will lose your money spent on purchased courses!!!
Here’s how they work… You spend lots of money on course lessons, they replace the app with a new one, then all your purchases no longer download. Money wasted.BoostedStig
App is TERRIBLE!
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!!!!Jayness33
Good course, poor app
I quite like the learning process but the app itself is very poor. The bulk of the screen is taken up with the logo leaving a very small space for the play / pause button making it difficult to hit - and you’ll want to hit that button a lot. Pausing also seems to sometimes rewind 30sec too. There also surely has to be a better way to link the text to the audio lesson too rather than hit the tiny chapter button and search through 69 pages of a pdf!! The whole app is pretty amateurish.Show lessQw638
Can’t get in!
I downloaded the app and listened to the free first lesson. I didn’t set an account up and now it won’t let me register. All I have now is the login page which tells me none of my email addresses are valid so I can’t even try ‘Forgotten’ password.
Tried deleting the app and downloading the app but no luck.
Stuck at the login page forever!Show lessScott0702
Useful but some UX issues
While it’s very useful to have the audio available in an app, The app struggles with the very necessary requirement to play/pause
Pros:
- Really useful to have all of the audio in an app, audio can be downloaded offline so great if you’ve not always got access to data etc
- Great to have the audio and resources available in the same place, resources can be accessed while the audio plays fairly easily.
Improvements:
- This may be a bug, play/pause doesn’t work as expected while the iPhone is locked. I’ve noticed when you pause from the Lock Screen, it actually skips back 30 seconds which can get confusing. While I can work around the issue by keeping the app open, it means I have to keep the app open at all times.
- Sometimes while inside the app, the play/pause button shows the ‘play’ icon instead of the ‘pause’ icon and the audio bar is frozen in the wrong place. Pressing the play/pause icon still seems to act as it should but not clear where you are.
- Once listening, going back to the list of audio isn’t very easy, the ‘chapters’ button is very low down on the bottom right corner making it really hard to press.
- It would be useful to have some sort of placeholder to remind you where you’ve got up to if you have to come back.Show lessMWilkes90
Garbage app
How can I access the content I paid for outside of this joke of an app?Dougsbud
Good app
Reviewing solely the app and not the courses themselves, this app is useful when on the go. However the reason it’s not 5 stars is the app lacks a lot of polish, by which I mean there several buggy parts to the application and the UX could be significantly improved.jbm1991
Good program bad app
If the app would consistently work it would be way better. It’s honestly very disappointing when I already payed $200+ for the program only to have the app be basically unusable. Won’t pause when pressing pause. Won’t download courses and play in order. Did you guys hire some high schooler that had taken one computer science course to build the app?Show lesszbrochacho
Play/Pause Issues
The method is great, but the app is not good. It basically has one job: play mp3 files; but it does a very poor job of this. It loses track of you place and doesn’t always respond when you press pause. This should be a simple feature and it is an essential function for language courses. Michel gives explicit instructions to pause the audio in order to think out a phrase, but the app makes this very difficult and frustrating. Please fix!Show lessMarkus_Auralias
