Customer Reviews

Tell Me More French Version 6

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

I've been using this software for about 2 months, and I have to say it is really great. I'm learning with a focus on reading, and I do feel pleased with the progress I've made, even with just 1 or 2 hours a day. I feel comfortable with the grammar and vocabulary, which is what I have been emphasizing. Also, the speaking and listening exercises are helpful, even though sometimes the dialogs are spoken a bit fast. After all, we second language learners aspire to rise to the level of native speakers, so it's great practice. Worth the money.

I attend Rice University and take French classes there. We use TeLL me More during our classes and I though it would be much better for me to get my own copy, so I can also use it after class and progress faster. The activities are really engaging and you can really progress in French, and not be bored. My teacher put a lot of emphasis on the pronunciation part, as this software really helps you improve it

I also like the cultural workshop so I can learn French history, geography,..., before going to Paris next year.

I am not sure about the other reviews, as I had no technical problem whatsoever with that program and I actually have a 3 year old computer. Also, no problem at my school.

This product really taught me French very easily. I was amazed at how fast I learnt. I used other software in the past and was not completely satisfied as I just learnt some sentences or words, but could not develop a full understanding of the language as there was no grammar, or always something missing. This software is very complete: grammar, audio-glossary, speaking activities, it even comes with a "cultural workshop" where you learn different things about the French culture. I reached the Intermediate level and cannot wait to go to the Advanced level and improve even more.

I read the other reviews before my purchase and encountered the same problem with freezing. I contacted tech support and got the necessary fixes and now it works fine (except for the dictation excercise). It's a very thorough program. I'm finding it works well for me. The negative thing was that it took me a long time and a lot of persistence to get what I needed from tech support. I recommend using the help facility built into the program - it will give you the email for the support in France. The emails I sent to the email for US support were never answered.

It was a semester before I went on a study abroad to France when I first heard of this software; my French professor asked for volunteers to participate in a research of it. I joined immediately knowing that I only have few months to excel my skills before I go on a 6 month journey to France.I was amazed with this software from day one! It helped me a lot with pronunciation, vocabulary, and even confidence of speaking French; I guess talking out loud (to a machine) helps with adjusting yourself to speaking it overall. Now, I decided to buy it for myself, so I can not only practice what I have learned, but also work on becoming fluent, hopefully.

If you are a person whose french knowledge is limited to bonjour and merci you will find this software difficult. They say in the instructions to use guided mode if you are a complete beginner or have a little knowledge of the language. I found it overwhelming even though I've been studying the language for a few months.In guided mode for beginners they ask you to do cross word puzzles with words they haven't introduced you to yet. This is really an intermediate to advanced program. The pronunciation helps are nice. From time to the program freezes but it doesn't make the program unusable.
I downloaded the latest update and haven't had a problem. The three stars are for the fact they say beginner on the box but aren't for true beginners. There's a dictionary in the tools section but you should invest in a paperback french to english dictionary because there are word in the program not in their dictionary. If you are a true beginner try Assimil French with EASE or Michel Thomas French.

I'm having the same problem described by other users: the program freezes during the pronuncation exercises, necessitating a reboot. This happens repeatedly, rendering the speech recognition feature of the software essentially unusable. In addition to this specific problem, the software is agonizingly slow when switching between lessons, and even between different portions of the same lesson. My computer is above the specs recommended by the manufacturer, so the problems appear to be due to poor programming. Bottom line: stay away from this product until it has been properly debugged.

I was disappointed with this product. Navigation is poor and software does not work properly. Plus, you need to know some French in order to get anything out of it.

This is a pretty good language course, as far as content goes, but it has one major problem - it freezes constantly.

In the last hour that I've been using it, the program has frozen around a dozen times (not just temporarily, but permanently, requiring the program to be restarted). Always when it gets to the pronunciation exercises. Sometimes within seconds of restarting after the last freeze. Now presumably this doesn't happen on all computers, but I have a pretty good laptop (1.7GHz Pentium/512MB RAM, well above the recommended system requirements) and it's basically unusable (unless you avoid the speech exercises completely).

When I pay this much for something I expect it to at least work properly.

Dont ever buy this, I mean i bougth it with the intention in learning French for my first trip to Europe, but its a complicated software, hard to use, slow when u try to change to another level. I just wasted my cash on somenthing that doesnt work.