In July of last year, I committed to learning German via a PHP2,990 annual subscription to Babbel. It’s my equivalent of making sourdough or adopting 10,000 plants. Today, I set my MacBook and iPhone to German. I switched up Siri’s language to practice fake conversations with it (Side note: What pronouns does Siri go by?) in Deutsch.
Consider this my first-hand verdict of Babbel. The app that first popped up in 2008 lives up to the success it boasts about. On their website, they make known that it’s “the world’s top-grossing language learning app” and has received good reviews from The Economist, along with a couple of tech and education awards.
The brag isn’t without a bite—…
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