French FSI Barron's courses

I can tell that Pimsleur is going to end sooner than I thought and it's going to be like saying good bye to an old friend and soon I won't have either Michel Thomas or Pimsleur to guide me (boohoo). And audio-courses are so easy as you can take them anywhere and do them almost anywhere. I'm really going to miss it.

I've been looking at other courses and I'm finding that most of the beginner ones are now too easy and the others are too difficult, so I'm sort of stuck in the middle.

I knew about the FSI ones but I found them rather boring... but I might try it for a big longer. You can get it for free here. It's apparently used by the US government to teach diplomats, and Barron's have also appropriated and sell it through Amazon and the like.

It's fairly long. 24 units and each unit has separate parts:

1 - 6 parts
2 - 6 parts
3 - 6 parts
4 - 7 parts
5 - 7 parts
6 - 3 parts
7 - 11 parts
8 - 10 parts
9 - 11 parts
10 - 9 parts
11 - 9 parts
12 - 4 parts
13 - 8 parts
14 - 9 parts
15 - 10 parts
16 - 9 parts
17 - 11 parts
18 - 7 parts
19 - 9 parts
20 - 8 parts
21 - 8 parts
22 - 7 parts
23 - 8 parts
24 - 6 parts

for a total of 189 parts! Woah. And each part is approximately 20-30 minutes long so it's fairly intensive and drills you a lot. I just did the first 3 parts (1.1, 1.2 and 1.3). I'm not sure if I can stick it out but we'll see...