# Learn French with Le Monde — user reviews

> 167 indexed App Store user reviews of Learn French with Le Monde by Societe Editrice du Monde, rated 4.70/5 from 279 ratings.

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- Rating breakdown: 5★ 243 · 4★ 17 · 3★ 6 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 11

## What do users think of Learn French with Le Monde?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 😊 Engaging and humorous lesson content
- 📚 Well-structured lessons with clear explanations
- 🎯 Personalized learning adapted to user level
- 🌍 Rich cultural and contextual immersion
- ⏱️ Short daily lessons easy to integrate into schedule
- ✅ Effective grammar and vocabulary improvement
- 🎨 Creative storytelling and animations
- 👨‍🏫 Excellent personalized customer support
- 🏆 Officially recognized certificates available
- 🔄 Continuous content updates and improvements

**Cons**

- 💰 Expensive subscription pricing ($250-400/year)
- 🚫 Limited to 5 lessons per week on standard plans
- ❌ Not suitable for complete beginners
- 🔐 Difficult to cancel subscription
- ⚠️ Grammar content disappears after extended use
- 📱 Crashes on iOS devices
- ❓ Confusing email validation issues
- 🐢 Slow correction feedback delivery
- 🎯 Repetitive verb tense lessons

**Commonly reported bugs**

- App crashes frequently on iOS devices
- Email validation not accepting valid addresses
- Inconsistent lesson delivery
- iPad and iPhone compatibility issues

**Most requested features**

- Flashcard section for vocabulary practice
- Extended free trial period
- Speaking practice features
- Lower subscription pricing options
- Flexible lesson delivery schedule
- Spanish language version
- Better beginner-level content

## Newest reviews (16 of 167)

### 3/5 — Muito bom, mas….

*2024-12-29*

Sei que coisas boas e de qualidade tem um preço, mas aqui é completamente desproporcional ao que custa um bom curso de idiomas.

### 5/5 — Unusable

*2020-10-08*

This app will not accept my email as valid. Thus, I cannot enter to use it. Useless to me unless it’s bug is fixed.

### 5/5 — Absolutely brilliant app

*2020-09-30*

Best app to learn French. Worth every penny !

### 3/5 — Could offer more

*2020-05-12*

I was between paying for duo lingo plus or paying for the following classes after the free trial on Frantastique. I regret so much not opting for Duo lingo...
The classes happen only 5 times a week and last less than 10 min.
Unfortunately I don’t feel like it has helped me much and I ended up buying the whole year subscription.. 
The classes are good but not for the price I’ve paid. I was meant to pay 300€ for presential classes but it got cancelled due to Covid, thats then I ended up buying it. Kinda disappointed tbh.

### 4/5 — Excelente aula, fácil aprendizado

*2020-04-09*

Valem de
Mas as aulas

### 5/5 — Muito bom, mas paga

*2020-03-20*

Testei por cinco lições e foi muito bom. Vocabulário, gramática e compreensão. Mas após esse pequeno período tem que pagar.

### 2/5 — Gut in der Testphase, danach unflexibel und langsam

*2020-03-01*

Ich mochte die 7 Tage Testversion, wegen der Flexibilität vorzuarbeiten und die Breite der bearbeiteten Themenfelder gefiel sehr. Seit ich die kostenpflichtige Version nutze ist das Niveau weit weg von neuer Information und der Fortschritt ist fast gleich null. Zusätzlich kann maximal eine Lektion pro Tag durchgeführt werden, was im Alltag äußerst frustrierend sein kann. Nach einem Monat der Nutzung kann ich die App von Preis-Leistungs-Quote her leider nicht empfehlen.

### 5/5 — Conteúdo incrível!

*2020-01-29*

Geralmente não consigo me focar muito em cursos on-line, mas o conteúdo é ótimo é envolvente! Só achei o preço do curso mensal alto e o preço anual não tem opção de parcelamento. Isso acaba tornando inviável, pois fica quase o preço de um presencial. Mas gostaria muito de continuar!

### 5/5 — Teuer aber gut und spaßig

*2019-11-26*

Ich habe lange überlegt, weil es wirklich teuer ist! Es macht aber viel Spaß und nach einer Woche merke ich dass die 20 minütigen Einheiten wirklich was bringen.

### 5/5 — 너무좋은데 한국어가 없어요

*2019-11-24*

한국어가 없너서 영어로 봐야되요 ㅜㅜ 한국어도 깔아주세요 ㅠㅜ

### 5/5 — wow!

*2019-09-17*

fun and effective. Outstanding app!

### 4/5 — Great resource

*2019-07-31*

I enjoyed using the app to prepare for my French proficiency test.  Hope Franstatique is further discounted to encourage more students to use the app.

**Developer response:** Thanks Towain!

### 5/5 — Excelente

*2019-07-27, version 11.7.0*

Hasta ahora excelente! Con un poco de todo. Datos históricos, culturales, vocabulario coloquial y sobre todo explicaciones muy claras.

### 5/5 — Fun lessons

*2019-07-03*

This app makes learning french fun. I really enjoy the funny lessons.

**Developer response:** Merci !

### 5/5 — 繰り返し、繰り返し

*2019-06-23*

毎日コツコツ、そして繰り返し繰り返しやる、という当たり前だけど、難しい語学習得のコツ。これが知らず知らずのうちにできて、力がついていく。
ストーリーも面白く、毎回楽しみです。

### 5/5 — MarionLouise

*2019-05-14*

I am pleased that I discovered this app having already subscribed to Le Monde I needed to go back to basics and believe this French course will give me all I need to eventually become fluent 
I think it is worth every penny!

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Impossible to cancel subscription

*2022-07-05*

Very difficult to cancel a plan, impossible.

### 1/5 — Expensive

*2021-01-09*

I found a native french speaking living in an emergency country for less than 10 USD each class.

### 1/5 — Йес оф коз)

*2019-12-07*

Учим Французский но если вы знаете английский..

### 1/5 — Up to 5 lessons a week

*2019-06-03*

Up to 5 lessons a week, that about sums up my thoughts about this app.

It’s insanely expensive, and you are held back from trying to go further at your own pace.

Listen if I’m paying hundreds of dollars a year for an app, I want to be able to get more than 5 lessons a week out of it. 

It was cheaper for me to sign up for French classes and take them in person for two semesters at my local college than it would be for me to use this app. 

Think about it.

### 1/5 — Does not work on iPad or iPhone

*2019-03-04*

Very disappointed to see that the app crashes on all my iOS devices.

**Developer response:** Hello Frankie. I am sorry for this. Did you try and unintall the App and install it again? Best.

### 1/5 — Not good

*2019-01-13, version 11.5.1*

The app crash every time it is so bad

### 1/5 — The worst !

*2018-12-25*

Some days you get lessons some days you don’t , after ten days I have received no further lessons , corrections are slow in coming , it’s all about grammar , if you don’t have a good understanding of grammar you will be lost , the cartoons are very annoying, and it’s very expensive, you can get the same info by reading a grammar book, does little to help you speak the language

### 1/5 — Difficult

*2018-11-09, version 11.4.3*

Very difficult to use .

### 1/5 — Too advanced for beginners

*2017-01-26, version 9.1*

The app is only fun if you already know enough french to read and understand most of the content because it is highly based around grammatical content. It attempts to be fun but is not fun and confusing for people actually learning from knowing nothing at all. I think it was built for intermediate level students that are already studying in a lesson based class. The en english buttons don't translate instructions more than once. Given that I'm struggling to even get past 7 lesson tests to even get to the real lesson based content I don't think I'd enjoy paying for something way over my head. Also, why am I being tested over 7 lessons? Why not just one preliminary test and set me on the appropriate lesson level? I also think that basing the lessons on grammatical content does nothing to help someone learn to speak. This app will only create students that have good grammatical book skills and no applicable speaking ability.

### 1/5 — 没有中文客服！回复太慢

*2016-11-14*

中国用户只能通过邮箱求助，尤其付款出了问题，没人回复！

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Excellent app and excellent content

*2022-12-23*

All lessons very well structured and followed up. The content of the lessons constantly updated and presented in very friendly manner with nice sense of humor.

Each lesson is divided into 3 parts: follow up on previous errors/mistakes, then lesson itself and then few exercises on grammar and vocabulary. 

Only one remark: after a year and half only grammar part of the lessons disappear and, de-facto, only follow up and few exercises remain.

### 5/5 — Great app but too short trial time

*2022-07-23*

I had great time trying this app but the trial time is too short. I wish you guys give me more time before I can decide to subscribe or not.

### 5/5 — Very effective for learning French

*2022-05-26*

I’ve been doing the lessons for two months and already see a significant improvement in my French grammar and vocabulary. That being said, I wish this app could also add a flash-cards section to help us further practice and memorize newly-learned words - just a little personal opinion.

### 5/5 — C’est super!

*2021-08-25, version 12.0.0*

Ça fait longtemps depuis que j’ai étudié la langue française et la culture. J’aime bien les touts petits leçons avec “le dessert du jour.”  Il vaut le prix!

### 5/5 — Wenn man schon ein paar basics kann,

*2021-08-04*

dann ist diese App grossartig und motivierend, um Französisch weiter zu verbessern. Es macht Spass und ist witzig. Will man mal eine Übersetzung, so ist die allerdings in English, was nicht weiter stört, wenn man Englischkenntisse hat. Kann recht hilfreich sein (einige Wörter ähneln sich in beiden Sprachen, sofern sie aus dem Lateinischen stammen oder später aus dem Französischen übernommen wurden. Wer B2 hat, braucht fast keine Übersetzung oder lässt sie sich mal schnell von der iTranslate App (bei Sätzen) oder vom Apple inhärentem dictionary übersetzen. Der Fortschritt ist recht gross dabei mit gutem Memory-Effekt. Allerdings nicht ganz billig (vorerst kann man da aber beim Basic-Monatsabo den günstigsten Tarif nehmen und nach Bedarf steigern. Es steckt viel Liebe zum Detail im Kurs, er hat bis jetzt keine Fehler oder Anglizismen wie bei Duolingo manchmal auftretend, es wird viel mehr erklärt als dort. Volle Punktzahl bei mir!

### 5/5 — 良いのだけど

*2021-04-22*

単語の解説は、フランス語にしてほしいです。英語もそこそこなので。

### 5/5 — Fun & Easy to Understand Corrections

*2021-01-30*

I decided to buy Frantastique's subscription course, because I want to become fluent in the French I started studying as a young student. Each lesson is fun, brief, and definitely easy to integrate into even the busiest schedule.

The best part about the lessons is that the corrections, content, and level are all personalized. I know I will enjoy the officially recognized certificate regarding my French language level after 6 months of lessons.

### 5/5 — Great Customer Support

*2020-12-11*

I’m updating my previous rating from 1 to 4 Stars because of the customer support. Although they are not the engineers, they do everything they can to help and will push through whatever content you need if/when requested (which is really great customer service when you think about most other language apps out there).  I still question the logic of the algorithm because of the number of times the same verb tense has been presented over the years, however, with manual help from the support team, issues can be addressed.

### 5/5 — Excellent

*2020-12-05*

But not for beginners.  You need basic grammar, conjugations, and a beginners vocabulary or you’ll be lost.
For those with the basics it’s a great tool

### 5/5 — Motivating and effective

*2020-10-12*

Not only do I look forward to my lessons, but my French has improved dramatically.

**Developer response:** Merci  :)

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