Learn French – Studycat

We love this app. I am a foreign language teacher turned homeschool mom and am so impressed with how well thought out this app was. Had an issue with a recent update that included some grammar issues, and the customer support and dev team have been so receptive to my feedback and have been sending me updates as they are working out the issue. I am so pleased to support a team that really cares about their customer base and is willing to work hard to develop an incredible product. I will continue to use this app with my own kids and will certainly keep recommending it to other parents and students!

A couple of the games are not intuitive for children. In one, you have to match the spoken color to a black and white image. Kids would have to guess what color the objects are. For instance, what color is the cake? It could be anything. There is a root vegetable, but not the carrot. I can’t make out what it is so we guessed on the color. Would make more sense if the image is in color as there is no need for it to be in black and white. The next, you get to paint an object. Wouldn’t be too hard, but you end up having to mix the primary colors to get the others. Not easy when you get to making brown. It took me a few tries to get to what was accepted as brown. We haven’t finished the color lessons yet but I wanted to point out the difficulties we had so far.

The best part about it is that they don’t translate. It’s hard to find apps that don’t. The worst thing is no instructions on the games. Play instructions that explained what the object of the game is could be in English without undermining learning. A few of the games have left my five year old nearly frustrated enough to literally throw my iPad at the wall. In the middle, is that the lessons seem to focus on vocabulary rather than scripts for practical use and the verbs that go with them. Since my daughter has used Muzzy already which seems more advanced than this, maybe I should have picked age 6+ on that question even though she won’t be 6 for 2.5 months yet. Is there a way to change the age setting since I think the higher level might fit better because of her past experience with Muzzy. By the way, her feedback is “ the games don’t say how to win so you gotta spend time figuring that out first and Muzzy is more interesting because there’s a cartoon to watch and games after you watch the movie in the Muzzy theater webpage