stupid paywall
the paywall at the beginning is the reason I am going to never speak my parents language:(
Falsely Promised To Warn Before Charging
SCAM. Don’t give them your card info. You can’t use the app for free, they make you sign up for the trial. Then they trick you by assuring you’ll get a notice before the trial ends, lulling you into a false sense of security. They don’t actually send you this notification. I’ve just been charged $100 for an app not worth a quarter of that, after them assuring me they would let me know before this charge went through, which was a lie. There is no customer service available, and Apple just sees it as a free trial that’s expired so it’s not eligible for a refund thru them. WATCH OUT! DO NOT RECOMMEND.
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Thoughts during free trial
I am using the Egyptian Arabic mode.
While I really like the concept of this app, I can’t justify paying for it at this point.
Two concerns: the camel avatar does not always pronounce the words the same way as the computer voice does during the practice sessions.
For example “nos nos” is pronounced by the camel like it is written with no trailing sound after nos. However, the computer automated voice sounds like “no-sa nos”. There is an extra sound after the first Nos. If I speak it with that extra sound, it is not counted as correct.
Related, there are other words that I pronounce, at least to my ears, the same as the computer voice, yet I can never get it to accept it as the correct pronunciation. The app does not help me correct my pronunciation; I just have to skip it.
These two problems alone prevent me from subscribing to the app.
While I really like the concept of this app, I can’t justify paying for it at this point.
Two concerns: the camel avatar does not always pronounce the words the same way as the computer voice does during the practice sessions.
For example “nos nos” is pronounced by the camel like it is written with no trailing sound after nos. However, the computer automated voice sounds like “no-sa nos”. There is an extra sound after the first Nos. If I speak it with that extra sound, it is not counted as correct.
Related, there are other words that I pronounce, at least to my ears, the same as the computer voice, yet I can never get it to accept it as the correct pronunciation. The app does not help me correct my pronunciation; I just have to skip it.
These two problems alone prevent me from subscribing to the app.
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Bad for beginners
Chat GPT can teach you Arabic more efficiently for free. This isn’t good for people starting fresh with Arabic. Also the AI is very primitive .
Won’t load first lesson
I’m level 0 just started and it won’t learn the video lesson part of ‘speaking basics’ please fix
