Babbel - Language Learning

Name: Babbel - Language Learning
Rating: 4.6 (23211 reviews)
Author: Babbel GmbH

Speak Spanish, French & more

Free · In-App Purchases

23K Ratings
Age Rating

13+
Years
Chart

No. 56
Education
Developer

Babbel GmbH
Language

EN
+ 8 More
Size

315.6
MB

Speak a new language with confidence – get Babbel, the award-winning app built by 200+ language experts and trusted by millions worldwide. Learn a new language faster with bite-sized lessons designed to fit your everyday life. With Babbel’s proven method, you could start having real conversations in as little as 3 weeks. Your language learning adventure starts with a lesson. WHY BABBEL WORKS • Research-proven results Efficacy backed by researchers at Yale University: 100% improved their oral proficiency in 3 months.* • Expert-built courses Courses are created by language experts and tailored to your native language, so you learn naturally and efficiently. • Speak with confidence Improve your pronunciation and rehearse out loud with interactive conversation practice. TRUSTED BY MILLIONS • 25 million subscriptions sold • 1.6 million 5-star ratings across platforms (based on App Store ratings) • After 10 hours with Babbel, 96% of learners saw better test scores on grammar and vocabulary** BUILT FOR REAL LIFE • Short, effective lessons Learn in as little as 10 minutes a day. • Lessons for every motivation Learn for travel, work, or fun. • Listen, speak, write Options for every learning style. • Stress-free conversation practice Build confidence with Guided Conversations, then practise freely with Babbel Speak (Beta)***. • Smart review system Boosts learning and retention. • Grammar in context Clear explanations exactly when you need them. • Offline mode Download lessons and learn anywhere, anytime. • 5,000+ courses Over 60,000 lessons across all languages. LEARN 14 LANGUAGES Spanish (Latin American or Spain) French Italian German Portuguese English (American or British) Russian Polish Turkish Norwegian Danish Swedish Dutch Indonesian TRY BABBEL TODAY Download Babbel now and take a free lesson. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS A subscription is required to access full courses. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment will be charged to your Apple account. Available plans: 3 months 6 months 12 months Lifetime Privacy policy: https://about.babbel.com/en/privacy/ Terms of use: https://about.babbel.com/en/terms/ LEARN MORE Read Babbel Magazine for tips and insights on language learning: https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine Follow Babbel on social media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/babbel Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/babbel.languages CONTACT US Questions or feedback? Email: support-mobile@babbel.com *Based on a study conducted with Babbel users learning Spanish. Available at http://bit.ly/BabbelYale. **Based on a study conducted with Babbel users learning Spanish. Available: http://bit.ly/BabbelMSU. ***Babbel Speak is in beta: functionality, quality, and availability may change or be withdrawn at any time. Babbel reserves the right to charge for this feature in the future.

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Ratings & Reviews

4.6

out of 5

23K Ratings

Great app but needs some small tweaks
13/11/2019
Monkey_179
I love the conversational approach to learning a language and think you’ve done this really well. There are a few awkward things from a UX perspective. The first and most annoying is the way the users voice is recorded - it’s too sensitive on the pauses and the interaction of speaking straight after listening without first taking an action to record wasn’t intuitive and was a friction point when learning how to use the app. I find the letter scramble questions are helpful for remembering spelling but would honestly prefer to use a normal QWERTY keyboard. Finally, there’s no recognition of typos, which is not a big deal, but slightly annoying as a user - I miss the moment of recognition/delight and get the question wrong because I accidentally typed hablas has halbas.5 stars if you fix these little things ;)

Developer Response
Hi there, thanks for your great review. Please submit your idea on our Wishboard: wishboard.babbel.com 🙂 Your feedback is important to us. You can write to us at support@babbel.com for more info. We'd love to hear from you! Thank you very much for your support! 🧡✨
Great app but needs some small tweaks
13/11/2019
Monkey_179

I love the conversational approach to learning a language and think you’ve done this really well. There are a few awkward things from a UX perspective. The first and most annoying is the way the users voice is recorded - it’s too sensitive on the pauses and the interaction of speaking straight after listening without first taking an action to record wasn’t intuitive and was a friction point when learning how to use the app. I find the letter scramble questions are helpful for remembering spelling but would honestly prefer to use a normal QWERTY keyboard. Finally, there’s no recognition of typos, which is not a big deal, but slightly annoying as a user - I miss the moment of recognition/delight and get the question wrong because I accidentally typed hablas has halbas.5 stars if you fix these little things ;)
Developer Response 14/11/2019
Hi there, thanks for your great review. Please submit your idea on our Wishboard: wishboard.babbel.com 🙂 Your feedback is important to us. You can write to us at support@babbel.com for more info. We'd love to hear from you! Thank you very much for your support! 🧡✨
Generally good but backwards
02/10/2023
MarketLyell
As a beginner, one thing I don’t get whatsoever is why the app would teach you selected words and phrases for specific situations and then shortly after that progression the app throws you a test with new words and phrases that you haven’t been taught yet and expects you to just figure it out somehow all the while testing you. So, because you’re a beginner, you fail the tests not having learnt the words and phrases yet and have to go back to get it right. Is this a smart way of teaching someone a new language? To have them fail on tests because they haven’t been taught that content yet, feel miserable that they’re failing from the get go and then get a 100% pass after going back to correct the mistakes. Don’t you teach and then practice and then test? Bizarre approach and it’s a good thing there’s 7 days free trial because now I know this is not the app that’s going to make me feel good and motivated learning a new language so I’ve canceled the 12 month subscription and will look for a teaching app that teaches then tests only what has been taught.

Developer Response
Hello, Thanks for sharing your feedback. We're sorry to hear of your less than satisfactory experience. Please feel free to contact us at support@babbel.com for more information and we look forward to developing solutions!
Generally good but backwards
02/10/2023
MarketLyell

As a beginner, one thing I don’t get whatsoever is why the app would teach you selected words and phrases for specific situations and then shortly after that progression the app throws you a test with new words and phrases that you haven’t been taught yet and expects you to just figure it out somehow all the while testing you. So, because you’re a beginner, you fail the tests not having learnt the words and phrases yet and have to go back to get it right. Is this a smart way of teaching someone a new language? To have them fail on tests because they haven’t been taught that content yet, feel miserable that they’re failing from the get go and then get a 100% pass after going back to correct the mistakes. Don’t you teach and then practice and then test? Bizarre approach and it’s a good thing there’s 7 days free trial because now I know this is not the app that’s going to make me feel good and motivated learning a new language so I’ve canceled the 12 month subscription and will look for a teaching app that teaches then tests only what has been taught.
Developer Response 04/10/2023
Hello, Thanks for sharing your feedback. We're sorry to hear of your less than satisfactory experience. Please feel free to contact us at support@babbel.com for more information and we look forward to developing solutions!
Newcomer Level is Ridiculous
26 Mar
Suexxbee
The one positive is I have built up my word bank of Italian vocabulary and with a lot of my own research, an understanding of verb conjugations. But for the most part, I get so frustrated with Babbel. As a newcomer to learning Italian, I thought in the newcomer phase I would have simple sentence structures, alongside new vocabulary and grammatical concepts that would be built on in a sequential manner to enhance and embed learning. Have I been totally challenged. Each unit in A1.1 and A1.2 has had two to three lessons before a review. The lessons very briefly give explicit information about the grammatical functions and sentence structures (particularly word order which changes so often) and then when you get the the review, complex sentence structures that you haven’t had before are thrown at you. I experience so many errors in the reviews (not great for confidence) and this is on top of the additional study I have to do to understand a lot of what has not been explained clearly enough. The dialogue elements are the worst within the lessons and the reviews due to complex sentence structures with added dimensions that haven’t yet been explained. I have reached out several times asking why the newcomer lessons have been designed this way and have gotten no answers. I am going to persist with the hope that one day this will eventually click, but it won’t be because of Babbel, it will be more so due to the additional research and practise with other apps that I am doing. I would not recommend this to someone if they are beginning at the newcomer level and would like to learn how to speak Italian, as the potential to get overwhelmed with the lesson structures as described is high. You spend so much time bogged down and confused with ever changing sentence structures and grammatical complexities that speaking it seems way too daunting. But I will keep going and try and get soemthing out of this subscription!

Developer Response
Hi there, thank you for your detailed feedback. We’re sorry the newcomer lessons feel overwhelming — your comments on pacing and clarity are very helpful and will be passed on to the right team. If would need any help in finding the right lessons for the start, please reach out to us at support@babbel.com.
Newcomer Level is Ridiculous
26 Mar
Suexxbee

The one positive is I have built up my word bank of Italian vocabulary and with a lot of my own research, an understanding of verb conjugations. But for the most part, I get so frustrated with Babbel. As a newcomer to learning Italian, I thought in the newcomer phase I would have simple sentence structures, alongside new vocabulary and grammatical concepts that would be built on in a sequential manner to enhance and embed learning. Have I been totally challenged. Each unit in A1.1 and A1.2 has had two to three lessons before a review. The lessons very briefly give explicit information about the grammatical functions and sentence structures (particularly word order which changes so often) and then when you get the the review, complex sentence structures that you haven’t had before are thrown at you. I experience so many errors in the reviews (not great for confidence) and this is on top of the additional study I have to do to understand a lot of what has not been explained clearly enough. The dialogue elements are the worst within the lessons and the reviews due to complex sentence structures with added dimensions that haven’t yet been explained. I have reached out several times asking why the newcomer lessons have been designed this way and have gotten no answers. I am going to persist with the hope that one day this will eventually click, but it won’t be because of Babbel, it will be more so due to the additional research and practise with other apps that I am doing. I would not recommend this to someone if they are beginning at the newcomer level and would like to learn how to speak Italian, as the potential to get overwhelmed with the lesson structures as described is high. You spend so much time bogged down and confused with ever changing sentence structures and grammatical complexities that speaking it seems way too daunting. But I will keep going and try and get soemthing out of this subscription!
Developer Response 30 Mar
Hi there, thank you for your detailed feedback. We’re sorry the newcomer lessons feel overwhelming — your comments on pacing and clarity are very helpful and will be passed on to the right team. If would need any help in finding the right lessons for the start, please reach out to us at support@babbel.com.
Love it!!!
12/11/2017
ET's wife
I started using Babbel (French) after my friend recommended it and I just love it! The lessons are the perfect length and I love the way they are set out into 3 parts - introduction, exercises and revision/renforcement. The grammar notes throughout the lessons are also a wonderful way to make things clearer. Personally, I find it easy to learn something if there is a ‘rule’, you know, things like, “ i before e, except after c” (I still recite it when I write the word, ‘receive’) and Babbel’s Little grammar notes during the lesson at the appropriate times are like those little ‘lightbulb moments’ where you just think, “oh, now I get it!” The images help reinforce what you are learning too and the accents are clear. Wish I’d started it earlier! Thanks for an amazing App, Babbel! :)
Love it!!!
12/11/2017
ET's wife

I started using Babbel (French) after my friend recommended it and I just love it! The lessons are the perfect length and I love the way they are set out into 3 parts - introduction, exercises and revision/renforcement. The grammar notes throughout the lessons are also a wonderful way to make things clearer. Personally, I find it easy to learn something if there is a ‘rule’, you know, things like, “ i before e, except after c” (I still recite it when I write the word, ‘receive’) and Babbel’s Little grammar notes during the lesson at the appropriate times are like those little ‘lightbulb moments’ where you just think, “oh, now I get it!” The images help reinforce what you are learning too and the accents are clear. Wish I’d started it earlier! Thanks for an amazing App, Babbel! :)

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Seller: Babbel GmbH
Size: 315.6 MB
Category: Education
Compatibility: Requires iOS 17.0 or later.

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Requires iOS 17.0 or later.

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Languages: English and 8 more

English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian
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Introducing: The Group Plan

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Great app but needs some small tweaks

Generally good but backwards

Newcomer Level is Ridiculous

Love it!!!

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