The irony is that real FSI language courses generally produce graduates who can read the newspaper and deliver a press release but cannot order food in a restaurant or explain to the delivery driver how to reach their apartment.
I never met an FSI graduate who felt their language training was great. I met many who felt it wasn't, and many who had to effectively relearn the language when they arrived in country.
I simply don't believe that it generally produces graduates who 'cannot order food in a restaurant'. The phrases required for that are almost always simple. Perhaps you mean that the graduates do not necessarily know certain vocabulary (in the sense of not knowing how to precisely specify a 'rack of lamb' whatever) or the correct register/politeness level for every possibility?
I don’t know what exactly the op meant by delivering a press release, but at least I after a four year high school german course can read newspaper articles in german but would struggle quite a lot to order food (granted, I wasn’t very good at it). In a more grammar heavy language understanding is a lot easier than writing which is a lot easier than speaking.
Is it? I don't know of any person using Duolingo or any other app to perfect their language. Most of them either learn from a uni course or something similar.
I vibed the landing page so there are problems with it. Since it is my first app, I don't know how to write a copy. I will change it though. Thank you for your input.
I know podcasts are terribly unfashionable now, because they're not AI-powered and MP3 encoders barely use enough power to warm a teaspoon of coffee never mind boil an ocean, but I feel like Coffee Break German would want to have a word with that claim too.
I never met an FSI graduate who felt their language training was great. I met many who felt it wasn't, and many who had to effectively relearn the language when they arrived in country.
Although online, it is praised quite a lot.
I urge you to rewrite the landing page copy. Right now it has very strong LLM generated smell which is off putting and detracts from the product.
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> The only German course that actually produces speakers.
Hahaha, You better add a source to that. Without being am established household name like Duolingo or Rosetta Stone, that sounds like a scam.
Pimsleur, Assimil, LanguageTransfer, italki, perhaps
Auf Deutsch, natürlich.