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"Learn to Spreak French 8.1", Good to have this product. I have different resources for learning French. It's good for me to use it with other resources. I wish I would have a workbook with it, which is essential for learners. Regardless, I like it.

"A Big Waste of Money", This would have been a wonderful product if it could be installed on my computer. I have tried to install it using Windows 2000 and Windows 98. Neither system would accept it. When I called the company, they said that they knew about the problem and were working on it...to check back at their web site periodically for an update. That was over a year ago. There have been no updates and I basically wasted my money.

"We'll always have Paris...", First one negative: The Learning Company does have to get better at listing what platforms their software really works on. Version 8 does not run on Windows 2000, Windows 8.1 has problems with XP, but works fine on Windows 2000. If you're planning on buying this software, be careful about which version you buy.

That said, this software is a good learning tool for picking up French. It will not be enough on it's own (what one tool ever is for learning fluency in a language?), but it's an incredible supplement. You see and hear French being spoken in a number of situations and by a number of different people, all with different accents, ages, and occupations. A book will not give you this (though a book will be better for learning the rules of grammar such as verb conjugation). Pronounciation is particularly hard for english speakers learning French (I speak from experience). Having the word spoken repeatedly while printed on the screen is a boon for figuring out how French is supposed to sound (again, a book will not do this as well).

The program relies on rote memorization for success, which is unfortunately one of the menial and grudging realities of learning any language. Each vocabulary word is tied to a picture (e.g., 'ici' has an "X" with an arrow pointing to it), and the drills rely on your ability to interpret these pictures. Most are not difficult at all to figure out, but some can be ambiguous. Each lesson moves from a list of vocabulary words into these drills, and then into a conversation usually between 2-4 French speakers. Once you have these phrases and sentences down, there are more drills. Lastly, each lesson includes games: "Go Fish" (against a strange horse/dog creature with a southern drawl) and a crossword puzzle. You can play the games at any time (though it's harder to know this in version 8.1 than it was in version 8.0). Finally, you have a conversation with a French speaker via your PCs microphone. It's as close as you will get to having a native speaker on hand for practice, though it has the limitations of any computer program (this part of the program has crashed on me, but not frequently enough for me to give up on the software).

Lastly, when you speak into the microphone the computer will judge your progress on a continuum from 'tourist' to 'native'. This is a little tenuous, and I would encourage people to pay more attention to the playback of their voices rather than worry if they're attaining 'native' status (I have also heard that sometimes these programs don't work well with native speakers - a French-Canadian relative of a friend of mine once used this program, and was consistently told he was a 'tourist').

Overall, it's a very good tool to help you along with learning French. It will not learn the language for you, but it will be a valuable help.

"Excellent Learning Solution for Everyone", LearnToSpeak 8.0 is the best language learning tool I've used. I've used many, and this inexpensive software is unmatched in both quality and value.

To learn a language, you need to immerse yourself in it. That includes TV, Radio, Friends, Internet, and everything else. With this software, if you use it well, you'll be able to travel to France and have small conversations with natives. You'll be able to visit places, shop, get help, and order at a restaurant. You will definitely not be able to discuss medicine or engineering, but you'll have the skills to communicate effectively as a tourist.

This set features real time dialogs with video characters, an extensive grammar library, speech recognition, informational videos, a talking dictionary, and easy to follow lessons categorized by topics... not to mention a very funny and friendly animated cartoon character that teaches you the grammar used on every chapter you finish. The program includes games and it's quite fun to learn. But to get to the games, you must first complete the five basic lessons. However, this is a learning tool, not a game...

I recommend users to please finish the basic lessons and browse all CDs before reviewing this awesome [and inexpensive] learning solution.

"DO NOT BUY FOR Windows XP", I bought this product for my Windows XP computer. It doesn't work. Even their own web site says:

Product: Learn to Speak™ French 8.1
Issue: No Valid Data Base, Error Code 58
Description: When attempting to launch Learn to Speak(tm) French 8.1, a message similar to "No valid data base. Error code: 58" appears.

Solution: This is a Private Issue. DO NOT Email. This issue is currently being researched. As of now it seems this is only occurring on Windows(r) XP. Gather system information, the exact error message and any details and forward the information to your supervisor.

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I don't see why a bug that makes a product useless is a "PRIVATE ISSUE". Especially for a product labelled "Designed for XP" in big letters on the box. I will report back IF this bug is fixed.

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"Good speech recognition", This program [is pretty inexpensive], and no, it's not going to teach you to speak French fluently. I'm not good with languages, but I've found that making a run at French has required years, lots of reading, different books, spending time with movies, streaming audio over the Internet, and all sorts of things. This one...program isn't going to turn you into a fluent French speaker, no single book, piece of software, or class will.

I didn't get much use out of most of the functionality in this product. But I do like the speech recognition very much. The program has a meter that gives you an idea of how well you're pronouncing words. It's hard to get it pegged into the green (at least for me), but when I do, I believe that I'm pronouncing the words pretty well. In fact, I took a level 3 class at Alliance Francaise here in Chicago, and was as good as anyone at pronunciation, and was complimented by my teacher, despite being behind the rest on most other aspects of the language. This was entirely due to working with the speech recognition feature in an earlier version of this product.

I think it's particularly helpful in light of the fact that language labs seem to be out of favor -- at least they didn't use them at the Alliance Francaise. There aren't many sources of help available for learning correct pronunciation.

If you're expecting this package to teach you French all by itself, you're going to be disappointed. But if you're serious about learning how to pronounce things, this is a great tool, and for [the money], I think it's a fantastic deal.

If anyone from The Learning Company reads this, I'd like to suggest that they bring out a new product focusing completely on pronunciation and vocabularly. If they had a product with maybe 10,000 words, and solid tools for learning the subset of the vocabulary you needed, I'd pay a couple of hundred bucks for it, at least.

"poor rating", Virtually worthless. NO phonetic pronunciation hints! NO introductory slow pronunciations. How are we expected to learn French when starting with Lesson 1 on page 1, the instruction book does not follow the CD? Half of this program consists almost entirely of hundreds of random phases to remember. And these phrases are not the phrases a tourist would ask but rather the phrases a Frenchman would give in response to a question a tourist might ask. We are taught "Tu veux boire quelque chose?" (Would you like something to drink?), but we are not taught the phrase for "I would like something to drink.".. .Where are we supposed to learn how to ask common questions? The remaining half of the book appears to be randomly slapped together grammar quizzes, e.g., what are sixteen Past Participles of Regular Verbs?

Learn French? Not with this program.

"Worse than worthless", Worse than worthless. NO phonetic pronunciation hints! NO introductory slow pronunciations. How are we expected to learn French when starting with Lesson 1 on page 1, the instruction book does not follow the CD? Half of this program consists almost entirely of hundreds of random phases to remember. And these phrases are not the phrases a tourist would ask but rather the phrases a Frenchman would give in response to a question a tourist might ask. We are taught "Tu veux boire quelque chose?" (Would you like something to drink?), but we are not taught the phrase for "I would like something to drink.".. .Where are we supposed to learn how to ask common questions? The remaining half of the book appears to be randomly slapped together grammar quizzes, e.g., what are sixteen Past Participles of Regular Verbs?

Learn French? Not with this program.

"boring", I'm fourteen years old and on my second year of french. This program isn't so great. 1. all of the learning is through speaking and repeating words. 2. there aren't any games that make it fun to learn. 3. it's kind of confusing. I wouldn't recommend it to kids at all. It might be okay if you only learn through speaking. It would be better if it had more options.