Babbel: each lesson has a well made dialogue.

[mentecuerpo]

TOPIC:
How I learn a NEW language with babbel.

TOOLS:
Babbel online.
Screen capture video software: Camtasia or Screenflow.

SEE THE METHOD BELLOW: under method.

Hi fellow language learning lovers, this is how I use Babbel after many years of being bored by it. I will share with you my method, maybe one of you will try it and use it.

I have been a paying customer for Babbel for years, I have a few subscriptions going simultaneously and still paying for them: French, Italian and German.

I started with Italian, then French and Last German.

I have not completed any course, it is still a work in progress. On/Off type of thing.

Babbel is really solid, and I believe anyone can supplement language learning with Babbel.

What I do now? After many years of struggling to complete the lessons.

I just video record each lesson using Camtasia screen capture on my windows computer (screenflow for mac).

METHOD:

Look for the dialogue. Extract it from the lesson.

Each lesson has a beautiful dialogue. Record the whole lesson and then focused on the dialogue (grammatical points are a plus but you don't need to focus on it).

You will have multiple dialogues, one on each lesson, the dialogues are clear with native speech, outstanding pronunciation. (this is the strength after all, we learn by listening, so we need good speech, standard with clear pronunciation).

The dialogues are funny, interesting, short and with nice and important words.

I go through the lesson as fast as I can, as I am capturing the screen.

I just want the video completed in record time.

I record the session from beginning to end.

Do not waste time completing the exercises, just record the session: I am not interested in typing the solution to the exercises on the lesson, I just hit "solve" and then, the answer to the exercise is given to me in a few seconds. In that way, I can complete a lesson in a few minutes.

I then save the Camtasia video on MP4 format for this session.

The learning starts by watching the session multiple times and listen to the dialogue:

Repetition of the video:
Watch your video multiple times. this is when the learning takes place.

I am interested in the dialogues, now I enjoy them.

[Koneho]

I looked at Babbel for Indonesian and decided my 10 USD was better spent on a 2 month sub to The Indonesian Way instead. The Indonesian course is spartan at best, so maybe this doesn't apply to all their languages.

[Speakeasy]

Just passing through to cross-reference two discussion threads on Babbel …

Babbel - LLORG - January 2018
https://forum.language-learners.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=7613