They are MUCH worse than their Spanish counterparts, and worst of all they cost the same! HOWEVER, if you're learning a smaller language, like Danish, I would run away from Babbel. They have a very new conversational approach to online language learning, and it's miles ahead of other online courses in the price range. If you are learning Spanish or French – it's awesome. Not a lot of content for intermediate and beyond.Way less content on some courses compared to others.Some recordings are unnaturally slow/stretched out.Languages are completely different in their design and quality, but cost the same!.Easy to use interface both on desktop and mobile.The courses with conversations are amazing, and teach super relevant and important vocabulary for the learner.This gives you an idea of what to expect deeper into the course. Whilst there are no technical trials available, all languages have 1 free lesson you can take to evaluate the software. You cannot subscribe for less than 3 months, and you have to pay any of the above packages upfront at the time of upgrading. ![]() €6.65/month when committing for 3 months.€5.54/month when committing for 6 months.€4.95/month when committing for 12 months.Babbel Pricingīabbel is a pretty affordable service, costing: Spanish, French, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Turkish, Danish, Russian, Norwegian, Polish.Īll courses are taught in English, except English which you can learn from 6 languages. Of course I only tested 1 module of 1 language for this Actual Fluency review, so I can't say if it's a trend of all of the languages or just the Danish course. To me the most important feature of any language learning tool or course is that the lesson materials are not only of the highest possible quality, but also that they reflect how the language would sound like “in the wild.” It sounded very artificial, as the 2-3 word sentences were stuttered.Ĭlearly native speakers, but just slowed down to the point where it's lost all resemblance of natural speech. The audio and speaker quality for the Spanish, French, and German courses was absolutely fine.īut, as I was testing out their Danish course (they offer the first lesson free to try for all their languages) I was not super impressed with the quality of the Danish recordings. So, why are they the same price again Babbel? Audio Quality The lessons are typical quiz-style, which remind me a lot of the styles used on Duolingo, which is completely free, by the way.Īnd to make matters worse, there is far less content available for some if not most of these “bad” languages than the the bigger languages! This reminds me of free apps, and is super boring! Not what you expect from a premium app – and vastly inferior to the Spanish version as explained above. They are boring, and teach word-by-word vocabulary, with the most dragged out voice artists I've ever heard (the Danish course being particularly guilty of this) Where the Spanish and French language courses were exciting, immersive, and taught useful language the courses for these languages are just terrible. Try it out here The “bad” languages – Italian, German, Danish + all others! ![]() So, if you're learning Spanish or French then Babbel is amazing. The audio quality is very high, and the Spanish sounds extremely natural.Īs an added bonus, there is also a ton of content available for each language, easily worth the small monthly cost. Not only do you learn very useful and practical vocabulary, but you get to learn it in context. ![]() Once you've learnt these, you are immediately put into a conversation in Spanish! These languages have significantly better courses than the rest of the languages of Babbel.įirst you learn a few key phrases, which are super relevant and important for those first few conversations you're bound to have in Spanish. Unfortunately Babbel (at the time of writing this review) chooses to continuously offer both the superior and inferior courses at the same time, and what is even more unfortunate, at the same price… The “good” languages – Spanish, and French One is amazing, and is worth every penny of the subscription costs – while the other is terrible, and not even worth doing if you got it for free. Babbel Alternatives The main features of BabbelĪlright, let's dive into the core of what Babbel offers.Īt this point we have to split the review in two parts, because Babbel offers two distinctly different style of courses, depending on what language you're learning.
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