Hiii, i tried duolingo but i feel like i want a book type of learning with audios to listen to and answer. i want to try babbel but the price is too high for me. any alternative app that costs around $15 to $20 a month ? hoping for app recommendations not youtube, book etc.
merci !
For a subscription, Pimsleur’s audio is great.
If you’d be willing to pay upfront, Rocket French has a lot of good, contemporary content for what you pay.
How much do they charge? I’m interested as well
Pimsleur is $20 a month for French, $21 a month for multiple languages. You can buy all 5 levels of French for $650 as far as I can tell. Lessons are 25-30 minutes. The downside is the supplementary study material is all pretty repetitive. They downright copy and pasted 5 strategies for the entire series. Grammar concepts appear without much explanation.
Rocket French is $260 for the course. The content is a lot more playful. The hosts and scenarios in the first level are really entertaining. Levels two and three are good too. The study aides give much more information than Pimsleur, with fun facts at the end. If I want to study the difference between Y and EN, there’s a section just for that, right up to the subjunctive.
Free options:
Lectia . Created by University of Maryland, you do things like watch videos and answer questions
ListLang. I learned about it because the creator posted in r/languagelearning, but the basic idea is you learn the top 5000 most common words, using multiple choice fill-in-the blank. It’s not as slick as a lot of other apps (and the sentences are machine-read), but I’m finding it really helpful for getting my head around key vocabulary.
So I am an absolute beginner. I started with Learn French with Paul Noble which I downloaded through my Audible subscription. I really enjoyed this. I have the intermediate version too. If you just want to know how to speak rather than read and write (which is important but takes more time), Paul Noble’s audiobooks are great.
Kwiziq is the best app for learning French grammar