17 Minute Languages Reviews 1,879

I am enjoying my course and learning well..... but..... there appears to be no customer service at all to help with any glitches.
The FB group is full of unhappy customers due to lack of access to support.

Good course, easy to follow and very good to do.
Very clear speakers of giving you the right pronunciation.

Learning is designed using modern methodology, with the app tracking word memory. Very comprehensive with additional learning for verb usage, sentence structure and conversations both written and audio that are natural and realistic. The optional extras to improve learning, like timed breaks binaural beat audio and meditations for learning are exceptional.

The engine is AI. It says so. However, this means that translations are literal. At least, that is what I find in English. For example, the phrase "to help out" has the sense of helping the cat out at night, rather than the more general giving of aid. The associated picture is of someone helping another out of a wheelchair. Another - "to take place": think of taking someone's place, not an occurrence, an event taking place.
The translations themselves are suspect. A picture of a man paddling a canoe is given; the word asked for is 'rudder'; the supplied answer is "oar".
A major defect of the presentation is that a word is given with no indication as to whether it is a noun, a verb, an adjective or an adverb.
Worst of these is the treatment of words that have more than one meaning. For example, the word 'lie' can mean the lie of a golf ball - its situation on the ground - or an untruth, or the telling of an untruth. The visual clue given for the first meaning is of a clothed woman resting on a bed; the visual clue for the second is of a couple seated side by side and looking unhappy. "hiring out" is translated as "video club"!
The vocabulary itself is oddly chosen. Besides 'rudder', it includes 'inherit', "airport building" ( I did not know buildings on an airport had a special name! ), "babysit", "suburb", "compartment".

Beware of this course!
At one point, my acquired score disappeared. I had to start the course all over again. Not bad... a good review... but the error kept repeating, and my learning progress stalled at 12%.
They're never reachable by phone and don't answer questions on their website!
Useless!

I started doing German for months, and now today, it is a mess with it starting from the beginning. Using Win 11 and firefox.

I bought a course and never got the logg in codes. Tried to contact them by mail also by phone. There is no one that answer me. It’s a bluff company!

I like the method of learning. It suits me very much. Thank you.

My payment didn't went through. They offer iDeal but that does not work. My money was gone and only after 3 days and 3 Paypal warnings I got my money back. I wrote back to 17-minutes, name Udo Gollub, but no answer at all. Only reminders to pay with many acclamation. I wrote 7 mails back that I don't want the course and don't trust them anymore. No answers ever. In total in 4 weeks time 9 mails with "Urgent message - pay".

easy to use, love the repetition and feel I am finally starting to remember words

Make anything habitual and you will learn, but the concept and practice must be interesting and enticing. This course is!

I am a bit senior and struggle with Thai, but the repetition seems to be helping

the one problem i have i can not find how to learn from norwegian to romanien, i have to go from english to romanian, that makes it more difficult, but i manage. So far so good.

Having paid a one off fee, have not received access or receipt. Written 5 times to help centre and payments section and received no replies.

If you look on their Facebook site, you may get a completely different view of this apparently scam-like organisation.

I have had to refer the situation to PayPal resolution centre

After few montgs i am still doing it and it still get me exicted to learn

They take your money do not respond to requests for log in access .
In my opinion they are fraudulent operators.
Be aware and DONOT waste your money

A great way to learn vocabulary
I use a text book for grammar.

Practice at own pace. Review lessons are helpful