Babbel - Language Learning

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1. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Not happy. Wasn’t working for me. “Cancel anytime” means any 3 month interval! Extra $45 that I don’t want to spend and won’t use.

2. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Horrid. Maybe this app is fine if you’re a seasoned linguist. It’s throwing new vocab and grammar at me so fast it’s impossible to keep up. There is no review or reinforcement of what was just covered. It moves to the next thing right away. If you’re looking to learn some of the phrases and basic language for travel this app is worthless.

3. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Trash app. Bro why can i only learn one lesson then pay are you kidding me bro do better on your app gng🫩

4. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Lesson are TOO LONG. They keep sending notifications that say “spend 5 minutes” to practice. But I keep spending 10 minutes to get to “you have completed half the lesson”. I’m pretty quick going through things. App seems ok but be prepared for having to spend 20 minutes per lesson

5. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Awful. Terrible application.

6. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Misleading. I’m so tired of these apps taking my info before they tell me it costs money. I probably would have signed up if they didn’t do that but it makes it feel like a scam.

7. ★★★★★slow performance and long loading times

   Very advanced. Looking to learn intro Italian for a visit later this year. This program advances quickly and doesn’t really have a slow learning and introduction of vocabulary before jumping into conversations. Not the way I learn best.

8. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Streaks don’t work. I have paid for premium and it seems to be a good app, but the streaks don’t work at all. It will mark it when I do it and then the next day when I go on, it will claim it never happened or move it to the next day, breaking the streak, making keeping a streak impossible. I don’t know why, but it’s really distracting for some reason and it makes it hard to go on at all, so if the streak isn’t going to work I would rather be able to turn it off altogether.

9. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Watch out for hidden auto renewal. I vividly remember not selecting auto renewal. But regardless they kept charging quietly, without any email, push notification, or in-app alert letting me know a subscription payment was being processed. No receipt, no reminder, nothing. Transparent billing is a basic expectation for any subscription service.

10. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Spelling. Why are we spelling words? I need to learn how to say them and what they mean.

11. ★★★★★a needed feature is missing

    Meh. Honestly only writing this review because I’ve done one before but every time I use the app it asks me again. Maybe if I write enough bad ones it will stop asking me every single time. The app itself is okay. I find it rather boring and don’t feel it’s helping me much. I wish there were more speaking exercises.

12. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Reclamation. Faites un contenu gratuit pour les africains ont est pas riche à cause du pillage de vos ancêtres et merci

13. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Difficult to Understand Lessons. There are no instructions or questions to understand how the lessons work. I have to guess to navigate through the lessons.

14. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Bad app. Don’t use it. It doesn’t work

15. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Sucks. You only get one lesson and it’s not even a good one either. Have to pay for more

16. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    HORRIBLE APP. THIS IS A SCAM,YOU CANT EVEN LEARN ANY LANGUAGE YOU WANT,YOU HAVE A FEW OPTIONS AND THATS IT.

17. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Disappointed. My level is either too easy or to hard. If présentes with something you don’t know, you get it wrong but have no background ot titre lège

18. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Not having what I needed to learn. The app did not have what I needed to learn and I’m up set I Hate this app

19. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Vacation travelers. Look elsewhere. Not sure who picks what is important to learn. Got better results from chat gpt and google translate.

20. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    No. Their translations are not correct. They suggest meanings rather than accuracy, therefore, learning the words is almost impossible.Also, they promote leftist nonsense. Find another course.

21. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Dishonest. Avoid this app. Babbel auto-renewed my annual subscription without any advance warning — no email, no in-app notice, nothing. The charge just appeared on my card. When I contacted support, I was pointed to fine print buried in the original sign-up confirmation. This is a deliberate billing trap. Cancel before your renewal date and don't expect Babbel to remind you.

22. ★★★★★search fails to find what is needed

    Spanish learning. Sucks, no search bar, can not find what I feel i need to know or review. All yea, did I say no search bar sucks big time

23. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Horrible customer service. I have an annual unlimited membership that doesn’t expire until October and they’re saying I need a new membership because they won’t help me resolve the login issue.

24. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    No Japanese. Duolingo is better

25. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Horrible. It has barely any languages to choose from. I want to learn Greek and it’s not one of the options 🤬

26. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Terrible. This is the most terrible app ever. You get one lesson then you have to pay an outrageous fee just to learn. After your one and only lesson you have to”chat” with ai with words you haven’t learned yet (if you are a beginner). If there was zero stars I would press it

27. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    I don’t understand. I don’t understand the French at all and you people are confusing me

28. ★★★★★privacy and excessive permissions

    Cannot get passed Privacy settings!. The app is more concerned about controlling you than teaching you.

29. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    It is not true. When I try to download a Babbel it said this is the best thing in the world but it’s not. It’s terrible you have to pay for the second lesson. I put five stars so people notices do not download this app. It is terrible.

30. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Hard to terminate. Once you start, good luck getting it to stop charging you. I can’t figure it out. Why do I have to spend so much time quitting??!! 😡