Hi @sue-harper
These new courses are, in general, a lot longer than our previous courses, with substantially more material than the three levels that have appeared in Welsh courses in the past, for example.
Rich 
Oh, wow! Great! And merci for the reply!
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Excuse me if I’m sending this to the wrong person, but this is the first time I’ve tried to use this forum and I don’t know how it works!!!
I’m trying to use the French beta course and get very frustrated with it continually getting out of synch.
On several occasions, I’ve tried the ‘skip’ button only to find that it has jumped a lot of (too much) vocabulary and verbs. Then when I try to ‘revisit’, it goes back to quite random places and I don’t know how to get back to where I was.
Personally, I would appreciate a time or progress bar so that I know how far I’ve gone and how far to go.
I’m informed that I have five days to go before my next belt then three minutes later I’ve got it!
Despite all this, I do enjoy the SSI app and understand that you are still working on it.
No, what is a French for ‘gremlin’?
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Salut @david-durrant ! Yes, exactly the right place to post, but it helps to also put the @ before someone’s name as that alerts them to your message faster.
The Tech Team is working on an update to the French course which aims to fix the issue with the sync as well as a few other little things, such as the occasional pronunciation glitch. We’re also looking into the functionality of the Skip/Revisit design as it’s not really what we think will benefit users the most, but that will take a bit longer. Feedback such as yours helps us to know what needs to be changed.
Revisit doesn’t currently take you back in the course, but just gives you some practice of earlier material before continuing from your current position, so if you’ve skipped, you’ll stay where you’ve skipped to, but Revisit will give you extra practice.
The addition of some kind of timer is a feature that’s in the plans for a future update, so that’s definitely something that’s coming. And we’re looking into the way the app is currently recording the Stats, so I’ll mention your comment about the 5 days turning into 3 minutes to the team - I didn’t know the app had the power to alter time and space! (Where’s the Tardis emoji when you want one? 
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Both sounds are both velar fricatives: the first is voiceless, and the second is voiced. This means if you learn to produce one sound, it should be easier to produce the other.
Think of how “s” & “z” sounds are produced the same way. The only difference is that you vibrate your vocal cords pronouncing “z” but not “s.”
For example, if you can pronounce the German “ch” as in “Bach,” you can try to consciously produce the voiced version of that sound, that is, the French “r”.
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