Pimsleur
Great question! I think Pimsleur is probably one of the absolute best apps to use to get started in a language, yet alone speak it.
Trouble is, I do not use it anymore. I found it was so hard for me to listen. I would relisten 4+ times and still not get more than 50% of it right.
I have a learning disability and I think itās important for me to find things which work for me
What worked with Pimsleur was stopping in 10 min increments and resuming a few mins later, like Pomodoro
Trouble is that as you know Pimsleur is a bit split up, You have the recap, then the new words, and then sentences from those words and a bit of grammar
But you canāt say āat min 10 they will start the new partā, so Iād get to min 12, 13 and then I would lose focus and just canāt listen.
With Anki, Wanikani etc I can literally just stop the work at any card / review and go back to it later.
I also tried putting Pimsleur into Anki, and that worked well but took too much work to grab the sentence + audio
I think when I know more vocab itād be good, but I do think for me personally I just canāt do it. Major props to anyone else that can