What Others Say About Babbel
Babbel.com was launched on January 15th 2008. Many websites, newspapers, radio and tv station reviewed the site and recommended it for easy language learning. Here are some quotes.
Übungen zum Dauerklicken
Fazit: Sprachen lernen kann anstrengend sein, mit Babbel dürfte jedoch so schnell keine Langeweile aufkommen. Die Übungen laden förmlich zum Dauerklicken ein, auch wenn zwei Dutzend Sätze zur Übersetzung anstehen. Clever ist auch die Einbindung einer Community, denn im direkten Kontakt mit Menschen aus fernen Ländern macht die Sprachpaukerei doppelt Spaß.
Welt Online, 2008-08-15
A major addict
"Thanks for giving me the kick in the butt I needed to work on my German (the ranking system is a great way to keep pushing me forward. Keep up the great work. I'm a major addict of Babbel."
Heather Force, Babbel user
Convivialité et l'Intelligence
"Félicitation pour la Convivialité et l'Intelligence de la Conception de Babbel! À l'allure où vont les choses je crois que je vais finir par m'appeler: 'Herman' par admiration pour votre site et la barre de la déontologie que vous placez si haut! Merci pour tout!"
Abdoufisher, Babbel user
Don't get bored
"This is a great site. I have been looking around to find some language material, so that I won't get bored. Here is that site!!"
Chorodomo, Babbel user
The Best Flex Startup Architecture Ever Seen
"Can it get any better? I’d like to worship those Babbel guys. I would say, so far, this is the best RIA startup architecture I’ve ever seen."
Flex RIA, 2008-04-18
My First Day With Babbel
"It's my first day with babbel and I start really to like it. I am very happy to find babbel. I think I will learn a lot of things with you. Actually I would like to learn several languages and I am sure it will be with you. Thank you very much. "
Abel, Babbel user
Learn How To Play Guitar And How To Speak A New Language...
"Everything is taken care of here, even the hardest for me - p-r-o-n-u-n-c-i-a-t-i-o-n. There are a lot of language learning sites out there, but this is by far the best I’ve come across."
Demo Girl, 2008-03-24
...Video Game-Like Interface
"Babbel.com is the bomb. Not babble or Babel but Babbel! It's a website with slick tools and a smooth interface (modeled after a video game console) geared primarily towards learning and retaining loads of vocabulary terms and key phrases through audio visual.
The interface is pure eye candy and it loads quickly (I use a standard DSL connection) and works solidly. I have been testing Babbel out for a while now and it has never gotten buggy on me. The system tests me on terms and phrases I have already learned while incorporating new ones about topics that I elect and, thus, are more likely to be interesting and useful to me."
Free Language, 2008-03-18
Learn Italian easily in this flex based environment
"I registered and had a play through two of ‘packages’ and found the user-experience and ability to learn from it to be excellent. They start off by teaching you single words, which are each associated to an image, they then eventually go on to teach you to memorise them and learn to understand them when spoken within phrases. By the end I was very pleasantly surprised at how much I got through and how much was easily retained into memory. They also marked one of my finished exercise packages as needing a refresher in 4 days time, which I think is great to keep you interested and remembering previous lessons. So there’s my bit raving about how great it is for learning a new language, which isn’t just available for Italian either, but so far it also has German, French and Spanish."
Experimental Space,
16.1.2008
Sprachen lernen 2.0
"Abschließend kann ich sagen, dass die Seite sehr benutzerfreundlich und interessant gestaltet ist. Besonders gut gefallen mir die Fotos zu den einzelnen Wörtern, weil man mit Bild natürlich noch schneller ein Wort verinnerlichen kann. (...) Vielleicht lerne ich jetzt auf diesem Wege endlich Spanisch – die Seite hat mich infiziert!"
slanted, 15.1.2008
Help Elkaar een andere taal te leren
"Dotcompany babbel.com is goed opgezet, is eenvoudig in het gebruik en
ziet er gelikt uit."
DotCompanies, 15.1.2008
Help Me, Help You Learn A New Language
"A young German startup is helping language students get that practice and experience through their new language learning community
called Babbel. Babbel is an Adobe Flex application that combines a social network with a series of language learning tools for English,
German, Spanish, Italian, and French."
TechCrunch, 2008-01-14