Learn French with OUINO: New Improved Edition v4 | Lifetime Access (for PC, Mac, iOS, Android, Chromebook)

Bonjour! We have 10 children and our homeschooling family (6 still homeschooling) LOVES LOVES LOVES Ouino!!!!If you are someone who needs a set track to follow, there is that option. If you like to bop around to vocabulary one day and verb practice the next, you can do that too. Other programs make you go through lesson after lesson to get to what you need. If you already have a decent handle on the language, you can jump ahead. Need to brush up on introductions? One click and you are there. Going to a French restaurant and want to review food vocabulary? Scroll down and you will be ready to order. You can do that with this program. Some other audio programs have vocabulary and you repeat it once and then move on. Unless you listen to the program over and over, it will not stick. Children quickly get bored by this method. We tried out many different kinds of language programs that were available from our local library. Those audio programs did not have the lovely visual to reinforce learning as it is in Ouino. Even the little things add up to enormous ease of learning. For example: everything masculine is written in blue and spoken by a male. Anything feminine is written in red and spoken by a female. Brilliant!We all love the new features from the upgrade. I think my favorite is the cumulative vocabulary review test. Most of my children like to take the tests for the vocabulary over and over until they get the "Awesome!" vocal prompt. By having all the lists together of just the ones you did is such a great review and it really keeps everyone on their toes. The "Random Extra Practice" is wonderful! Having the "streak counter" really makes it all into a game and has been so much fun! The children love it!Ouino is the coveted activity in each day. They have several things they each must do together and also several things they do individually. One daily activity is practice the playing the piano for 20 minutes. If they have completed that, then they are allowed to be on Ouino for 20 minutes. I have to put a time limit because they each would spend all day on Ouino!!! If they finish all of their work for the day, they can go back to "play" on Ouino. Even the 4 year old is randomly speaking French because she likes to sit with me when I complete my lessons. Yes, I am using Ouino along with my children.THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for creating such a wonderful product. Thank you for the wonderful customer service. When dealing with another very popular language company, I found the customer service to be nonexistent and frustrating. Not so with Ouino. Tonny and his brother Tim are so helpful, so kind and just lovely to talk to. Any issue you might not understand, they are willing to explain and talk you through. You know that they believe in their product and work hard. I am so pleased to be supporting such a business.When I was in school learning French all we did was conjugate verbs. We never did conversation and so I did not learn to speak French. I have learned more about how to speak French from this product in the few months we have been using it vs. the many years in school I was tortured with verbs. It is so much fun to learn using Ouino! I know many homeschooling families and I have been telling anyone who would listen about this fabulous product!!!!!!

Two hours trying to install this program. Yes, two full hours! They are so worried that you are going to steal their program. I could have downloaded this for free online. I paid $99 because it is the right thing to do, but all it did was waste my time. It turns out that you are not buying the program you are just buying the right to use it. You only get TWO downloads. At first I was happy because it comes with a flash drive. I thought, great I just plug it in and the program will work as long as the drive is in I am good. Wrong. You have to open an account, download programs, sync your computer and then verify your account. Then enter the activation KEY. Well it goes on and on. To bad it was so easy to use on youtube! Now my Apple Computer is jammed up.Update: Imagine that you are driving in your car and you hear a great song, so you decide to buy it. It would be great to listen to it again in your car, at home or work. Now there many ways to purchase music. Let's just say, you go on amazon.com and order a CD. A few days later you open the mail to find your order. You open your box and there is no CD just a flash drive. If you wanted a song on a flash drive you could have just downloaded it yourself for less. But let us go on, you try to load it on your computer and find that you have to sign or let us say accept a long contract. In the contract it states that you can only use it on two devices and only one at a time. How do you think this would make you feel? Anyway, it turns out that you have to do a bunch of steps and have internet access if you want to install the program. I finally installed ouino and I think I going to like it. I am even thinking of getting the Spanish version. To be fair to ouino I am changing my rating from 1 to 3. I just hope that nothing happens to my computer, because I don't know if I can ever install it again.

Overall this is a good program and for the money you can't go wrong. However, that said it is lacking in content. Although they do present about 100 verbs there are still about 25 vital verbs one must know to truly speak just daily conversations and they are not covered in the program. The program itself is beautiful to look at and the story lines are fun and playful. I don't believe this program by itself will teach a true beginner to learn to speak french without lots of other reference. The solution to that is to combine this program with the very best and that is FLUENZ FRENCH. If you are a beginner and truly want to learn how to speak french then Fluenz French is the way to go as it repeat things over and over until you can't help but learn. When the two programs are combined together I truly believe you will be speaking french very well by the time you complete both programs. Ouino has the potential to be a leader in the industry if they add about 25 more verbs and more grammer exercises. There is a new update coming out in a couple of months and I am hoping they add more verbs to the program along with more exercises in general. I do like thefact that the program has optional speed levels which allow the true beginner to fully understand how to say each word correctly and with a good accent. I also like the fact that the background music (if you choose to use it) changes and it not the same for every exercise. All in all it's a good program and I would recommend that you give it a try. Oh and up dates are FREE so don't wait for the new program to come out before you purchase as once the new update comes out you will be able to update your current program with the new added materials.