Hypnoledge: languages/hypnosis

Advertised a free trial, but immediately begins charging you a monthly fee without trial. I opened the app, realized it didn’t have the language I wanted, and cancelled it - and have now been being charged for more than one year! Even if you wanted to use it, the app is insanely buggy. There’s no way to contact customer service, and adjusting your subscription or billing takes an act of God. Try the web interface, and it constantly reverts back to instructions in the French language. All of the links to speak to an associate, cancel your account, etc. will 404. I haven’t been able to use it for a single lesson - not once! But have continuously been billed 20€ for an entire year. Oh, and on top of a 20€/mo for something you can’t use, they’ll also charge around 50€ extra for features they promise in their ads, like AI conversations and specific language goals. Totally scammy, exploitative behavior!

It was okay it did have two languages I wanted to learn but the one I specifically wanted, which was Korean, wasn’t there and I was a little disappointed 😕

I logged in and began the first lesson and everything in the app remained locked except for the first lesson. It’s a beautiful looking app, but isn’t functional. As someone who has studied languages, this is a cool concept but the execution is not there, the hypnosis portion of the first lesson is too long and wordy, they just need to induct you and then set you on your language learning. I think it would work better to have someone create and induction for you and then just use pimsleur. The first lesson doesn’t teach you what they are saying, they just have a random introduction that I only know because I have previously studied that language. I’m disappointed. I played the first lesson 3 times and never unlocked anything, never learned anything. It was a waste of time.