MakesYouFluent AI Language App

The app has lots of bugs and glitches. It stopped giving me “credit” for completing the modules after about the third one I completed (it would only register that I completed 86% of the module, no matter how many times I successfully completed the piece it said I hadn’t finished). The AI sometimes glitched or provided correction that is not accurate (a number of times, it tells me I should have said the very thing I did say). Sometimes it is inaccurate with the vocabulary words (at times it is simply a French word that has 2 meanings but the sample sentence doesn’t use the meaning intended, but other times, it gives a completely wrong word for the attached definition). One specific bug is where, in the sentence completion, if you get it wrong the first time and are offered another chance later, it mixes up the contextual sentences with other sentences you’d gotten wrong. A lot of these are pretty easy to work around, though. I think if they can fix the bugs and glitches, it could be a very useful app. If you use this along with another program (I also use Paul Noble’s series, which is an excellent way to learn spoken French) it is extremely useful for building vocabulary and practicing what you’ve learned with the bot. The combination seems an excellent way to build fluency overall, if one is consistent.

I like the idea but the Avatar conversations in the app are not nearly as impressive as the ones in the ads: the avatar is slow and the mouth doesn’t actually pronounce the words like they do on the ad. Also I ran into a lot of bugs: like the fact that the “record” feature on the pronunciation evaluation never stays on the first time I press it, so I press it a second time, and it appears to stay on, but the actual recording that it saves is the first split-second recording that aborted. It would be great if the conversation speed could be adjusted directly from the conversation. So as I progress I could increase the speed and then slow it down if I got into unfamiliar territory. Also, in the avatar conversation. There is sometimes a word that I don’t understand. It would be nice if I could tap it for translation to English.

[Update: after MANY messages with them (btw, best way to reach them apparently is thru Facebook messenger, NOT thru the email), they finally refunded some of the charges. As promised, I am changing this review to reflect that. Never got the app to function tho and no joke, it took weeks of back & forth messaging to get it resolved so I can’t give more than 2 stars. Seems like it’s prob a good app if it functions for you but if not, good luck. Hope you have LOTS of time to keep writing them. I basically had to threaten to tell every ex-pat I know not to use it before they finally did the right thing. ]Have never been able to get this app to function. It consistently says “no active subscription found.” After the 24 to 48 hours it takes for them to answer a support request, all they’ve done is repeatedly give me the same instructions to download & log into the app which I’ve said Every Time - isn’t working. So now, Ive tried to write every day this week to say I want a full refund (of all THREE month’s charges now that they dinged me yet again while I’ve been going back & forth w them trying to figure it out), and every email comes back w a mysterious “delivery status delayed” notification. Then today I get a notification saying their inbox is full. I have limited income right now but lots of time and planned to spend Aug working on my Spanish (I live in Mexico so it’s muy importante!) and instead I’m still using crappy free apps & out $54 that I don’t have. I’m hoping maybe this review will reach someone. I’m open to changing it if someone gets back w me & offers the refund I am due.