ForeignLanguage Graded Readers

I love the books and audio - the material itself - but the app doesn’t seem to be well made. I often play the audio and lock my phone, but if I pause the audio and then start playing it again, the audio will restart at the time stamp that it was at when I initially locked my phone. Recently the app has also started crashing CONSTANTLY. Any time I try to open the app, it immediately crashes. What’s also strange about this is that it only happens in fits: I can listen for 10 or 15 minutes just fine, but then it starts crashing and won’t stop until I just stop trying. Then I’ll pick it back up a couple hours later, start listening and then it starts crashing again. It makes the app completely unusable, so, in a sense, it doesn’t even matter how good the material is because I can’t even access it.

I already had a copy of Olly Richards’ Spanish short stories and I wanted the audiobook. In the short stories book, there’s a coupon to get the audiobook through the website and this app. I bought audiobook with researching the reviews...and at first i could see the mp3 recordings. I downloaded the app and it said i didn’t have any books in my library... so i went back to the website and it was there. However, when I click on the audio book, the pdf of the book downloads and it has the summaries of the stories as well as the questions. There’s no audio. So i feel scammed...i have emailed once and sent a message through the app around 2:30-3 this afternoon. I have received no response as of yet. I’m disappointed and I will just stick to Kindle and Audible. Lesson learned!

The reading material is fine and the audio is understandable BUT it would be nice to listen to the audio as you read. I bought both French audio and story but I can only access one at the time. It’s hard enough to know how French is spoken compared to how it’s written but to switch from the ebook to the audio isn’t helping at all. Overall the product is fine and well put. The narrator is clear and understandable while the choice of vocabulary is perfect for my level.