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I'm now using VHL for a second semester in Spanish only because I want the credits (I otherwise use superior tools for learning languages). I've created LMS content (Computer-based training) for a living (well over a decade), and VHL is POORLY made and overpriced. They have also clearly not thoroughly tested much of their content, which is riddled with logical errors. The only reason this company is in business is that it has somehow managed to become the primary supplier of learning content for schools. What a joke and a waste of my time and money.

Vista Higher Learning for Spanish at UCLA is the worst, most tedious and terrible program I have ever used as a student who is also a teacher. It is nothing more than busy work that frustrates you and is so picky you cannot get even ONE THING WRONG or it makes you redo it. You cannot accept the grade you get on ANY assignment, you have to keep redoing it until you hate the program, hate learning and hate the class and VHL. This software is absolute garbage and makes people hate learning. I have learned NOTHING in this Spanish class. I hate it. I actually stopped doing work because it had us doing 100 ASSIGNMENTS A WEEK. WTF kind of maniac thinks humans can learn in this tedious way? This company should be sued for creating the absolute worst way to learn imaginable. First of all, you do not assign that much work for one week as people have lives, families, jobs, disabilities and more and second of all it is so boring and tedious it is frustrating all the time. The worst is the fill in the blank where they give you NO WORDS TO USE. So from MEMORY you are supposed to remember what to use, the proper Spanish keyboard letters and conjugation of verbs in a BEGINNER SPANISH CLASS. This is the worst way a human being could try to learn anything. I have seen some terrible software and programs in my life as a high school teacher and college student but this is the worst I have EVER EXPERIENCED and made me give up my class I paid over $1,000 for it was so terrible. This company has no idea how to teach anyone anything.

Language learning on this program is fundamentally flawed. I speak two languages and have tried to learn a third thru Vista. Let's just say that I ended up failing to learn. Then discovered when taking another language I am already familiar with that the issue is VHL. Institutions have been deriding the language learning apps and trying to convince the populace that only their way is the only correct path. But I can say that the way things are laid out and presented ensures that actually learning a new language thru VHL is basically impossible. It is baffling that this is the most used program and speaks to a sad state of affairs in the US education system

if i could give zero stars i would. it keeps on making me repeat the speaking part but i know im saying it right because when i listen to the audio it sounds the exact same as to what i’m saying. vhl is the WORST app i have ever encountered and it should not even be an option as a learning tool. unless it starts to fix these things, DONT USE IT! TS IS SO BUNS BRO I CANT I GENUINELY WANT TO DIE EVERY TIME MY TEACHER ASSIGNS VHL TO US BC I KNOW ITS GONNA BE SOME MORE BS AND NOT ONLY THAT BUT THEIR ANSWERS DONT EVEN MAKE SENSE SOMETIMES LIKE IF YOURE GONNA TEACH SPANISH MAYBE YOU SHOULD LIKE UM IDK ACTUALLY TEACH SPANISH?? TF GET BETTER AND STAY UP BRO

I had assignments say they were submitted late even though they weren't and had a nightmare with VHL. Had a screenshot of one of the assignments showing it was submitted on time and sent it to the VHL representative who implied I faked the issue and that if my professor believes me she would fix the grade. Apparently I have the worst luck in the world because I also had a terrible professor for that class who was really difficult to communicate with and wouldn't do anything to help. She said it's on us if we have technical issues even though the issue was because of VHL which I was forced to use. I'm hispanic and I got a C in the intro Spanish class and my GPA is nuked. Platform is way too much money to have these sorts of issues.

So many mistakes in the activities. There are many grammatical and spelling errors. It marks me wrong for capitalizing at the beginning of a sentence. And i didn’t know “el banano” was a fruit. It’s built for native speakers; the activities contain vocabulary that was never taught. The Realidades textbooks were better.

VHL has horrible connection problems and makes homework assignments into tests, essentially testing the students on material they learned for about at most an hour, leading to cheating students relying in answers from quizlet.