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This is an amazing tool assisting learning languages. Aquision of a new language is a very hard journey. I have been a faithful subscriber of Pimsleur for several years now. I nitially purchased CD sets. Now I study two languages in a Roman group. I love driving and talking to my app, listening to conversations and responding to questions. They literally force you to speak from the beginning. It is fascinating! FBI, MArine Corp and other government agencies are using it for a reason. I am now a Lifetime Subscriber.

Expensive and really difficult to stop them billing you. Subscription is not visible in the App itself or on the Apple Store. To see your subscription and cancel you have to create a new web based account and proceed from there - bizarre and clearly designed to stop you cancelling. Also they not only auto renewed but at a higher rate and longer period than the first subscription. Read the many other review re charging issues. As a learning tool its interesting although playback when out and about can be glitchy. I’ve reported this but as others have said they just suggest the issue is on your side - despite this being the only App I ever have problems with. For this cost I’d suggest actual lessons with a person are far better value. I’ve covered all three units of Arabic and don’t feel any further forward.

I first used Pimsleur back in 2017 as I was moving to Germany for a few months and needed something to get me conversational within a short period of time (unlike Duolingo). Back then lessons were 1hr each but honestly it worked wonders as many of the friends I made were surprised that I had only been learning for a short time as I had really good pronunciation. I only really done level 1 and utilised my friends to build on it which helped tons. Fast forward to 2024 and I decided to re-subscribe to Pimsleur after 6 years of not using it, this time to learn Spanish, as I have close friends and colleagues who speak the language. Was pleasantly surprised that lessons were only 30 minutes each but the quality remained the same. Again, apart from being able to roll my R’s, my colleagues and friends loved my pronunciation and ability to have small basic conversation after only a few weeks. My advice to anyone looking to become conversational in a short period of time is to use additional free resources alongside Pimsleur. If streaming tv series or movies set the language to what you’re learning and put subtitles on. Use YouTube channels and podcasts. Find people you can actually speak to as it helps massively!

I really enjoy some aspects of the Pimsleur app, and have bought content on Audible previous to my subscription. Unfortunately the Icelandic lessons do not recognise my speech input at all despite repeated attempts. I also take online Icelandic classes where my pronunciation is never an issue. They really need to work on the accuracy of this - it happens in Norwegian to a lesser extent, which is renowned for huge variation in dialects.

The program is sluggish over a fast internet connection. It doesn't understand what I say 15% of the time. In that regard it's far worse than say, google translate. Their is zero support. No way to provide feedback. I've been using it for two months hoping it might improve.