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!!!!!!

I studied French in high school and and have a passable reading knowledge. I occasionally have to read French articles in my field, biological anthropology (with the help of Google Translate). But my spoken French is a bit rusty and biological terms are not likely to pop up in daily conversation. As I will be traveling to France in Spring I thought some brush-up would help.I have been using OUINO French daily for the past two weeks. It has excellent drills for vocabulary, grammar, etc., and its quizzes are good for practice and review. The setup is pretty straightforward and the examples that they use make sense for a variety of purposes. One plus is that they provide alternate usages for Francophone areas outside of France such as Canada. Another plus, for folks who have trouble keeping track of gender, is that masculine nouns are highlighted in blue with a male speaker and feminine in red with a female speaker. So gender differences are picked up almost subliminally. You can select specific items to work on (essential words, grammar etc.) and work at your own pace. As you work through it it provides examples of more complex statements and concepts. The structure allows you to set up your own drill within a section. For example, in the vocabulary section for--let's say--shopping, you can go though the vocabulary in sequence to familiarize yourself the terms and pronunciation, and then click among the terms that are most difficult. You can then test your knowledge in the user-friendly speed drill quiz that follows, then repeat the lesson or quiz.So from my perspective, it is an excellent system for reviewing French vocabulary, grammar and conversation.I have used a number of other systems for learning Italian. Ouino French is much less labor intensive than RosettaStone (and a lot more economical), and is easier to follow than the Pimsleur systems, although it does not go into the same depth.However: I do not think it is optimized for a beginner or at least for someone who has not studied a foreign language before. Rather than walking one through the process, it lets you pick and choose what to work on (good for review, but not so good for the beginner). On the other hand, OUINO would be an excellent supplement to another beginner system.Hint: I enjoy studying languages and always keep Google Translate ([...]) open. When I encounter a new word in Ouino, I look for alternate terms and usages in Google Translate. I also like to create new sentences with the new vocabulary and check them in Google Translate.So, overall this is an excellent system for review or to supplement a separate course in French.

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.