Adi is an alien who comes from a distant planet, is three million years old and helps you along in your studies (always particularly helpful, isn't it?). He comes in his pupil age-specific environment, which enables you to write notes, write stuff in your diary and play games, that is if you've worked well enough to be allowed access to them. From this environment you can really start learning any of the subjects Europress have included - you can buy them separately, but at £25.99 each it's an expensive business to persuade Adi to teach you every aspect of the National Curriculum.

French, for example, also includes other areas within the French language context, such as geography and general knowledge about France. In both of the age groups covered here, the methods of teaching are similar in terms of the types of questions asked, although the older age group touches on a wider and more complex vocab, more tenses and different subject areas.

In the 11/12 age group, once you've gone through the environment and are into the French section, you can choose from personal information, hobbies, towns and directions, animals and the cafe to concentrate on. In the hobbies menu, for instance, you find pastimes, prefernces and sports sub-menus. In the 12/13 age group, you have a choice of house and home, shops and quantity, weather expressions ("it's raining again" is always very useful), time and the school timetable, travel and clothes. You access each of these menus by clicking on either the F5 key or clicking on an icon - perhaps not so intuitive as dropdown menus.

The questions you are asked vary - there are true or false type statements, comprehension sections where you have to answer questions based on a piece of French text - in this instance, you tend to be asked the question first and are then directed to look at the piece which obscures your view, making it a more difficult task than it was originally intended to be. In other cases you also have to fill in missing letters to create phrases and also choose from a selection of options the words you need to make up a specific phrase. All in all, there's a huge variety of different methods of teaching which keeps up interest.

If you get a question right, you are rewarded with an aniamted cartoon portraying something successful and a slightly over-enthusiastic comment from Adi. If you do something wrong, however, the fire-eater turns an alarming shade of green. If you've just made one mistake at the end of a reasonably successful run, it's likely to be overlooked, otherwise you are encouraged to try again and reminded that help is always at hand, which indeed it is - just hit F5 and the concept which you are struggling with is clearly explained.

One of the best things about the program is that it also gives you an insight into France - the questions relate to what the weather is like there (a lot better than here, that's for sure!), what drink you are given if you ask for something - if you ask for tea, for example, you get it without milk and it is extremely weak, not what you'd expect in a good old British road-side cafe. The school timetable also relates to the French timetable. Did you know the kids go to school on Saturday mornings - how do they survive without Sarah Green and Philip Schofield's Saturday morning antics? It's a mystery.

Once you've scored a certain number of points, you are given access to more and more games found within the environment. This acts as an incentive if you really can't be bothered to do as much as you should. This adds an important motivating aspect to the program, particularly if a child is working without supervision. As with the other Adi programs, these are written to a pretty high standard and have obviously had a lot of thought put into them. Highly recommended.