Sunday, October 1, 2017

How Our App Teaches You A Language In 3 Weeks

Turkish in a week? Romanian in an hour?

We’ve made some pretty crazy claims when it comes to language learning. In our Turkish, French and Romanian Challenges, Babbel’s resident language experts battled it out to see who could make the greatest language gains in insanely short amounts of time. And while the results were certainly impressive, these lightning-quick learners were language aficionados, speakers of 3, 4, 5, or 9(!) languages and experts who’ve made it their lifelong goal to master as many languages as possible.
So where does that leave the rest of us? How much progress can I, the average learner, really make in his first weeks of study? As it turns out, quite a bit.
Back in November, we did a study that found (surprise) that Babbel ranks as one of the most efficient ways to learn a language. The independent study was conducted by researchers at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of South Carolina, and evaluated the overall efficacy of Babbel Spanish courses, examining the progress of 391 randomly selected learners and assessing participants’ knowledge of Spanish at the beginning and the end of the study.