Babbel – Learn Spanish Reviews – Page 9
5/5 rating based on 147 reviews. Read all reviews for Babbel – Learn Spanish for iPhone.
Babbel – Learn Spanish is free iOS app published by Lesson Nine GmbH
Live&Learn#ncj
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Real easy to use; instant feedback and you are able to review words, phrases, and sentences as much as you want.
Doesn't seem to be exactly what I need
Keeperdhshsjsjjs
The first few free lessons are great. Once you pay they get way harder and don't have you practice until you get it. You could literally make a 0 and it will push you to the next level. Also, every level seems like a spelling test. I start to focus on how the word is spelt rather than how it is said or what it even means. I'm several levels deep now and I don't understand the different ways to say you, we, I, etc. it's completely frustrating.
Not free
Neverwhen
Was advertised as a free app. It is not free unless you are satisfied just saying hello
Sorry, this app isn't going to help a beginner learn.
bpetruzzo
After using this app for 30 days, I am downgrading it form two stars to one. This app is just an interactive textbook, and it is not really any better at helping you learn than a textbook is. The ultimate weakness of this app is that it doesn't offer any study aid, such as simple vocabulary practice. Each lesson is about 10 minutes, and each one introduces new vocabulary, and then expects you to remember it in all of its nuance. The only way to 'study' with this app is to take the lesson again, in which you get maybe three questions to practice what you didn't learn. The 'study' they offer isn't endless. It gives you like, three or four quiz questions for each lesson and that's it. And if you use the 'flash cards' study option, the answer is literally always 'true'. They're supremely unhelpful. And, lessons themselves are not dynamic at all. They're always identical. So while you can retake them, before long you're just memorizing the answers, not learning the information. There are also a lot of questions that cannot be answered except by guessing. For example, in a lesson for matching, they want you to match the/the with la/le without any information about what the 'the' is referring to. So you just have to guess. The images they pair with words often don't have enough information to show what they're trying to teach, for example, a photo of a dog, without a gender declaration, does not help the student distinguish the appropriate gender pronoun. Ultimately, this app is just a cash grab. They recorded some voices, they transferred some pages from your highshool text book and they called it an improved study tool. But it's not. If you actually want to start learning and making progress, you have to do all the normal legwork a textbook would require. The app takes advantage of none of the things a smart device can do to improve a learning experience. I regret paying for the yearly subscription, and I'll probably switch to Duolingo, because at least that app is entertaining and has endless study tools. You should save your money.
Rip off
x babbel user
So hard to unsubscribe. I feel like this is a scam to collect fees from people who cannot figure out how to cancel.
Only Castilian Spanish
tom delgiorno
I am learning Spanish for Mexico and having lots of examples using the vosotros (second tense plural) is very confusing. Plus it is in lots of examples. So if you are going to Spain, no problem. IF going to Latin America I would not spend the money. You will be confused
A la carte language.
Pumpdupkicks
I get paying a subscription for game play and then having to purchase further add-ons for the game. Doesn't make a lot of sense in learning a language. If I can't progress in learning what's the point of the subscription? Sure I can pay the subscription and keep practicing the same words over and over and over. But if I'd like to actually learn the language I need to pay on top of my subscription. It's on me for not understanding the app but now that I understand, the whole thing seems scammy.
Conversations
Barrabeth
I wish Babbel had more interactive conversations. The lessons are very repetitive.