u/LibraryPretend7825

The catch-up lessons are a good idea but they're a bit late. More disturbingly, they contain listening exercises that are not longer even correctly pronounced, presumably the new AI generated content.

Course: Japanese

Issue: the subject marker は, which is also just the hiragana letter は in general writing, is no longer distinguished by the audio generation software, so it's now just pronounced as the letter, "ha" instead of "wa", usually also with a distinct pause around it, which screws up the sentence.

So what's my constructive criticism? You're teaching bad pronunciation and incorrect cadence. I really hope it's just those - presumqbly quickly cobbled together - catch-up lessons and not the entire course that's gone. That would ruin the experience thoroughly.

The Japanese course just transformed around me as per the recently announced course expansion, promising that I could carry on as before without issue.

Unfortunately that is not true: I am somewhere in the vicinity of where I left off, but suddenly there's a lot of words and Kanji that I never even started learning being treated as if they're known material. Which means I now have to learn them on my own whilst navigating the course.

A bit disheartening.