Pimsleur Language ProgramsReviews of pimsleur.com

Expensive and really difficult to stop them billing you. Subscription is not visible in the App itself or on the Apple Store. To see your subscription and cancel you have to create a new web based account and proceed from there - bizarre and clearly designed to stop you cancelling. Also they not only auto renewed but at a higher rate and longer period than the first subscription. Read the many other review re charging issues. As a learning tool its interesting although playback when out and about can be glitchy. I’ve reported this but as others have said they just suggest the issue is on your side - despite this being the only App I ever have problems with. For this cost I’d suggest actual lessons with a person are far better value. I’ve covered all three units of Arabic and don’t feel any further forward.

The program is sluggish over a fast internet connection. It doesn't understand what I say 15% of the time. In that regard it's far worse than say, google translate. Their is zero support. No way to provide feedback. I've been using it for two months hoping it might improve.

Good lessons but when you try to cancel subscription it has been a nightmare. They charged me twice (2 months) after date of cancellation. I have had to go to my bank to dispute charges and hope for refund. A real shame as hoped to use their lessons in the future.

The Italian dialogs are spoken too quickly and with inadequate articulation and audio quality. It is frequently difficult to make out exactly what the words spoken are. This makes using the lessons quite tedious. This problem could be mitigated by providing transcripts, but they refuse to do this. It is too bad, because the course would otherwise be excellent were these problems corrected.

This course has helped me understand German but isn't great for conversations or pronunciation. What I find the most frustrating is that you can't search for a specific topic such as booking a hotel or purchasing a ticket. While the lessons do cover these areas and many more, it's impossible to find it again as there is no search feature - 5 units of 30 lessons labelled numerically is what you get. The downloadable booklet doesn't relate to the lessons, sometimes there is no English translation, or the material is so bizarre it's useless. Grammar isn't explained anywhere. I'm having a much better learning experience with Busuu.