Babbel was the world's first language-learning app and is also the best-selling. Its intuitive lessons, which have led to over 10 million subscriptions being sold, center on learning a language through real-life conversations.

Babbel Is For Real Life We focus on conversational language - not random vocabulary - and guide you along with audio by native speakers paired with speech recognition technology. With grammar and culture tips too, you'll be feeling confident in a new language quickly.

Rather than just teaching vocabulary, it also focuses on words and phrases you'd use in real-life situations. Currently, Babbel has lessons available in 14 languages: Spanish, French, German, Italian, Russian, Portuguese, Turkish, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Indonesian, Polish and English.

The company is based in the Berlin neighborhood of Mitte. The company was founded in August 2007 by Thomas Holl, Toine Diepstraten, Lorenz Heine and Markus Witte.

The efficacy of Babbel is a gain of about 12.7 test points per one hour of study. For truly novice users with no knowledge of Spanish the gain is 18 points and for more advanced users it is about 10 points per hour of study. About 45% of the participants moved up at least one college semester level.

Babbel's lessons are interactive and cover all the aspects of learning Spanish - reading, writing, listening, and speaking - with multimedia content to train your ears and eyes. Our speech recognition feature even helps you hone your pronunciation, too.

Pros: The site has tons of content, and lots of options for community learning. Cons: Frustrating pedagogical problems and too much white space hamper site's effectiveness. Bottom Line: Language learning tool is best used individually by teens and adults; some teachers might also make good use of it.

In each Babbel lesson, you train all the four elements of language learning: speaking, listening, reading and writing. Here are some of the different types of lessons you'll encounter. Listen and repeat new words and phrases out loud, then get feedback from the speech recognition system.

Which languages can you learn with Babbel?

• Danish.
• Dutch.
• French.
• German.
• Indonesian.
• Italian.
• Norwegian.
• Polish.

Description. Available languages: Spanish, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Russian, Polish, Turkish, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Dutch, Indonesian, and English.

We offer both American English & British English. Other languages offered: French, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Spanish, Swedish and Ukrainian.

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