Customer Reviews

Learn French Now! 9.0

5 star:		(9)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

I really enjoy using this program and I highly recommend it. This program has very good conversational skill levels. You practice speaking and it rates your pronunciation. It helps you to improve your listening skills as well. It has word games, grammar tools and vocabulary building. The real life videos are average. However, it would be difficult to use this program unless you have learned some grammar. I recommend this program to all intermediate french learners.

It's hard to imagine a more transparent attempt to inflate the user ratings for these products. Over half of the five-star rated reviews are copy-paste identical. Not coincidentally, there is one such review for each language product they make. I'm glad Amazon is bunching them together so you can see this clearly. Beware!

A friend lent me the French version and it's mediocre and unstructured.

Once installed, at first looks, you may start to wonder as to where is all the vocabulary. But believe me as soon as you go into the individual modules, you will find all the vocabulary. And things like the screen saver help a lot too. Just watching the screen saver I have found so many new words and sentences even. Definitely much better than most courses. I was planning on going to a school for French but seems that now I don't need it :)

1. You can click and hear almost all the French words in this software. And it shows the meaning of the word and a little bit of grammar at the same time too.

2. The pronounciation is very clear.

3. Adequate and very good convasation and listening sourse.

4. Lots of activities to keep you learning- and they are all interesting!

5. BUT not enough grammars..

If you are bigginer with no French grammars, this software can be a bit hard.
But overall, this software is the best language learning software I've ever used and I strongly recommend it.

The good side of this program is that you can click on each word separately to hear it pronounced slowly and then you can click on the entire sentence to hear it spoken at a normal speed.

After going through the section with some essential words and phrases, there is a leap to dialogues and also to the language which moves to intermediate / advanced level. If you already speak French, but your French got a little bit rusty, this may be a fun way to review it. If you're just beginning to learn French, this may be frustrating and you will need to supplement this program with other more solid books both related to language and grammar.

On a side note, Transparent Language has additional CDs as add-ons to this program, which as far as I know are only available through their website. Add-ons deal with different applications of language - for business, travel, entertainment, literature, etc. One CD, for example will take you on a tour through Paris.

It is definitely much cheaper just renting or buying French movies and the only benefit from getting these add-ons is that you can click on each word separately and hear words pronounced slowly as many times as you need to, and then you can click on the entire sentence, or let the entire video excerpt play.

I bought this title back in August when the reviews seemed overwhelmingly good. But it is obvious now that someone connected with this company was trying to boost the rating with false commentaries. This is truly the worst piece of software I have ever used. There is no rhyme or reason to the GUI, even the sound of the French speakers is muddled. I have the Rosetta Stone French Explorer that my husband and I enjoy using.We were surprised when we actually started the learn the language. But rather than spend the extra money for the Rosetta Stone complete software program I fell for this drivel. As my husband says, quite often you really do get what you pay for. This lousey piece of &^$# is heading for the Goodwill Store.

For a beginner, this might be a bit imposing. I would suggest the beginner use a simple, structured exercise book in conjunction with this, as this program isn't structured at all. The intermediate or advanced speaker can dive right in, although I'd suggest getting some of the add-ons, as well. I haven't seen them on Amazon yet, but you can get them from this company directly. You can go through great works of literature or television segments or travelogues to build comprehension, vocabulary, etc. I'd also recommend this company's WordAce, which is a talking dictionary, but also contains grammar and synonym quizzes. Great fun. There are a couple of minor glitches to be ironed out still. Occasionally the software seems to get stuck on a word and you'll have to cancel out of a quiz and restart, but overall, I couldn't be happier with the software.

I had to brush up on my French for my Ph.D. language proficiency exams. I was dreading the whole thing until someone gave me a copy of FrenchNow! The program was easy to install, easy to use, very enjoyable and, most importantly, very effective. Within a few weeks, I found all of that French I'd forgotten after high school coming back. I've tried other language software in the past, but none of it has been as engrossing or as effective as this.

I am really disappointed with this product.

To begin with, the interface looks like something from the 80's. Second, the video screen is too small. With today's technology, this is just not acceptable. There aren't that many lessons and they offer day to day situations someone would need. I simply don't want to use this product.

I would recommend Microsoft's Encarta series. This software allows you to schedule the entire course depending on how fast you want to learn. Second, it has large video screens with people speaking in real time. Third, you get a booklet to help study and fourth, they give you an audio CD to take with you to practice the lessons. As much as I dislike giving money to Microsoft, this product is all you would need.

Learn French Now just doesn't offer what it should.

This product helped me so much in learning French. This last semester of college I took a French Language class and this product provided immense support and practice. With French Now I was able to go into the program and practice what I had just learned in class that day with games and more. The program is easy to use and effective as a learning tool. Furthermore, the interactive aspects of French Now enabled me to hear proper French and learn the correct pronunciation. This fall I am going to study abroad in Paris and thanks to this product I will be able to keep practicing and learning French till then.