I strongly recommend Fluenz German, and will probably give Fluenz Italian a try as well.

My wife speaks fluent German but has not had the opportunity in years so discs 3-5 have allowed here to update her vocabulary with current usage.

Fortunately, I know enough German to know how to conjugate the informal verbs, but for someone just learning German it may be a bit confusing when someone speaks to you in the informal and you've never learned it before

I first used the Fluenz German 1 program to learn enough German to navigate on a vacation trip to Bavaria

and I hoped to improve my German before my next trip to Germany

I wanted to refresh my German and pick up more vocabulary

In the case of the German instructor, she butchers some English words as well as she clearly reads off cue-cards