I would have preferred an American voice or better yet an with a French accent would be good
590920
The reader was too high browed English for me and difficult to understand.  I would have preferred an American voice or better yet an with a French accent would be good.  Never the less I could take it before the first CD was finished.
2677003
I wish there are more audio conversations for each lesson. Personally I find that the biggest challenge for me is listening to French speaking French, all the liaisons made the words sound entirely different from how I hear the words when I learned them. Also the content of the book is very much gear towards academic purpose not daily basis conversations.
4573780
I'm already bilingual and have never used a language CD course. Their choice for the Czech-speaking man is very poor -- he doesn't breathe while speaking so it's very hard to hear what he's saying and it makes distinguishing consonants is very difficult.  They should have chosen someone with a voice like the American narrator to do the Czech male voice.  The female voice on the other hand, is good. The makers lacked a little imagination because they failed to use a variety of names in the lessons -- for example, they keep repeating the same street name in all conversations, when it would have been much more interesting to hear different names.  In general, the amount of repetition of material is overdone in this system, because the whole idea of having it on CDs is that you can play to it over and over. They could have covered twice the amount of material with less repetition.
1622309
I like Garou, the French Canadian musician, that does the voice for Nim Galuu. So, I bought the DVD to work on my French. Amazon shows that French captions are included on the DVD but they're not.

Cute movie but I'm sending it back.
1479230
Story was enjoyable but I found trying to pronounce names and places unnecessarily difficult. Maybe could come with a page of how to make this easier.
1832924
I bought this film from France because it was written that it was dubbed in French, but I am disappointed because there is no French !
429122
The real problem is in the translation from French to English. The flowery, overwritten language is totally inappropriate to New England and the US. Should have been reWritten not translated...
3095762
You should probably put on here that the it is not an American DVD (even though it's in English with French subtitles) and that it won't work in 99% of American digital products. I've been waiting weeks for this and was terribly let down.
418472
With decent subtitles (the ones used seemed to have been written by someone who didn't speak English well) and better editing, this could have been much better.
1891824
"The bruetooth Dievaice isa connecticuit a succesfurry"

I'm Chinese and I find the Chinse girl's accent annoying. You couldn't find a expat in China to send you a mp3 file to program into the speakers?  Not even a French Canadian or Australian?  How about a South African? Why would you even program a voice into it anyways? The KISS rule applies here.  Just a beep would be enough.

So I was either going to throw this away before my aunt took it. She didn't mind the crappy annoying accent because she speaks the same way. The difference is, she is not stupid enough to put that on a mass produced commercial product.
1673638
What can I say except that I was pleased that Gene Kelly only had to spend 10 minutes in this unfortunate film. As always, I can't really say anything against Gene Kelly but as for the rest of the film?  Well, it is a feeble attempt at creating a french version of the Hollywood musical.  They really missed the mark but I guess it would of helped if ANY of the stars could sing.  If you can imagine, they dubbed Gene Kelly's singing voice.....mon Dieu.
863186
I felt the "French-Canadian cursing" was distracting and completely unnecessary to the story.  The story line was good and the baseball references were believable.
4333624
It wasn't my kind of book, to begin with. I couldn't really connect with the characters -they all had one or two notes and that was it. I would like to read it in French, though. The language looked more exciting than the subjects of the story.
1308560
It was difficult to understand the speaking parts because of the heavy accent.  Maybe if I watched it a few more times I would be better able to comprehend the dialog, but I doubt that will happen because it was such a bloody movie, which I do not appreciate.  I will stick with the original play.
1916553
Would be better if i could understand at least half of what they are saying. Had i known the accentt would be this difficult i would never have purchased the set. Gave up half way through the first episode.
4403282
Sweet story with beautiful scenery and sets that are very evocative of the time and era - World War II in the Alps.  But the dubbing is awful and the dialogue is lame.  It would be better left in the original French with just English subtitles.
3413308
If it sounded half as good as it looked, I'd still own it. Callers on the other end sounded distorted & over-boosted - I could barely make out what they were saying. I think I sounded fine to them, but hearing folks sound like the adults on a "Peanuts" special is no good. Plus, the voice prompts were really low - even after turning it all the way up. It also didn't fit well in my ear - I likely could've resolved that with the ear clip, but it sounded so bad, I sent it back.