> I fully believe it can get you to A1 reading and writing For some languages they claim B1 and I believe B2 (Spanish & French?) for reading/writing. I'm only

> I fully believe it can get you to A1 reading and writing For some languages they claim B1 and I believe B2 (Spanish & French?) for reading/writing. I'm only about 1/3 through the spanish course and testing at the A1/A2 range on reading/writing tests, so I'd buy it. But yes, it's almost useless for speaking. When I've been in conversational situations I can sometimes make out what the person is saying, but I can't talk at all. Which also tracks, at no point does it put your brain in a situation where it needs to come up with & speak arbitrary sentences in response to random events. Different neural pathways. That's neither good nor bad, it just requires people to have properly set expectation. There is no way to build up conversational skills without having conversations.