I think it's valuable that they offer a number of free programs along with paid ones, but it seems very scattered.

Take French for example. the only french I could find was FREN 102 and even that only starts at Chapter 7? How is helpful. unless I was taking the actual course before and lost half my second level course texts.

I hope that this is just an issue of this all being new. but I would have thought that they would begin at the beginning? Starting mid way through any sort of education isn't really that helpful...

Try the link on the iTunes page to OU Languages, on there is a link to the first level course French: L192