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The materials are fine, and we enjoyed the videos. But before you sign up and pay for their services, make sure you realize that if they do not cancel your account before the end of the billing cycle, they will automatically extend your account, there is no refund, and will threaten you with legal action for non-payment.

From emails from Lingorilla:

"The fee-based membership (Premium Membership) has to be cancelled in writing at the latest 14 days before the end of the contract period, which was selected by the User. The date of the receipt of the notice of cancellation is decisive. If no cancellation is made up to that date, the premium membership is automatically prolonged for the chosen period (e.g. 3, 6, 12 months). A cancellation is then only applicable for the next billing period."

(Please note that LinguaTV GmbH (Lingorilla.com) is based in Germany. The jurisdiction is in Berlin, Germany. The subscription is a standard contract in Germany and companies are not required to send a notification of renewal to consumers before the time period opt out in Germany. We have to point out all obligations and rights about cancellations and renewals in the terms and conditions. Each customer has to read and confirm them while the registration. The terms and conditions will be accepted with this confirmation and the contract is valid.)

So no notification of renewal. Account was cancelled 4 days after the end of the subscription period. Still charged (and threatened with legal action) for USD 104 even though the account is closed - because this is Germany.

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I discovered lingorilla.com a few months ago thanks to a recommendation by my German teacher. Since I´m using lingorilla I've gotten a lot of insight on the German language.

The key elements of lingorilla´s language courses are the videos and the interactive learning games (or "serious games like they are called). In the many scenes, native speakers show how their native language is spoken and applied in a real situation like asking for directions, ordering in a bar or making appointments on the phone. I like the way I can repeat after the native speaker and learn useful vocabulary and phrase that I can apply in real-time (rather learning rarely used words). Also, I can study at my own pace, whenever wherever.

I never felt overwhelmed, because I can repeat the videos and exercises as many times as I want. I really like lingorilla.com. It helps me where other sites don't. I also like the many tools the site provides, such as subtitles, transcripts, online dictionary, glossary, and more. The online dictionary even allows you to enter any word in order to translate it free of charge from German to English.

I believe that the low cost starting from EUR 9 per month for lingorilla.com is worth the money. Especially when you consider saving time and money for traveling to your course whether at your home town or abroad. I'm very glad that I found lingorilla.com for learning German online and I can highly recommend it to everybody who is interested in learning a foreign language. [www.lingorilla.com ]