When you sign up for Busuu, you select the language you want to learn, and the app helps you determine how advanced you are with it and why you want to learn it, and to what level. You can also choose to renew every three months ($37.95), every six months ($66.90), annually ($89.40) or a one-time payment of $249 for lifetime access. The My Activity module lets you track all your progress.īabbel is free to sign up for and the first lesson of every course is free. The 15-minute language lessons are easy to work into your day - whether it's on your commute, before bed or on your lunch break. You also get to see the new words you're learning used in common conversations, listen to them (if you choose to have audio on), repeat the phrases, and learn more about verb groups. If it asks you to spell a phrase, the letters are included. Each lesson takes you through translations, and includes variations of the word or phrase, pictures and whether it's formal or informal.

The minimalist layout of the Babbel app helps prevent a new language (French for me) from seeming overwhelming, without making it boring. I found Babbel to be the most like a foreign language course you'd see in an online school curriculum.

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