TLDR: Babbel can train you in 14 different languages to help take your career or your next overseas vacation to new heights.
No matter where you go, there’s no real substitute for one-on-one communication. When you can talk with another person face-to-face, there are few situations that can’t get resolved to some degree.
Of course, that understanding and goodwill often goes entirely out the window when people don’t speak the same language. Frustration quickly sets in, no one feels heard, and few solutions rise to the surface. And that isn’t just anecdotal information either. American companies estimate they lose about $2 billion each year solely to cultural and language misunderstandings.
On the flip side, that makes polyglots particularly attractive for hiring in many positions, with some multilingual employees earning as much as an extra $128,000 over the course of their professional careers.
You can set yourself up for a more lucrative job or just better understand the world around you with a lifetime of access to Babbel Language Learning training ($199, 60 percent off, from TNW Deals).
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You’ve heard of Babbel because it’s the no. 1 top-grossing language learning app in the world with more than 10 million users worldwide. On top of that, fans can’t get enough of Babbel’s informative and intuitive system, backed with a solid 4.6 out of 5-star rating from over 850,000 Apple App Store and Google Play users.
It all starts by choosing one of 14 languages in the Babbel archive. Developed by over 100 expert linguists, Babbel features more than 10,000 hours of content in foreign tongues ranging from Spanish and Indonesian to Danish and Turkish.
Your language education is broken down into easily digestible 10-15 minute lessons, tailored to fit into virtually anyone’s schedule. Rather than focusing on dry recitation or deathly verb conjugation exercises, Babbel lessons are centered around boosting each student’s conversational skills, helping students get up to speed on how to deal with useful real-life everyday subjects like travel, family, business, food, and more.
As students start speaking their new languages with growing confidence, Babbel’s proprietary speech recognition technology checks to see if that confidence is well-placed, assessing each learner’s speech, then tailoring around their strengths and weaknesses to better shore up the student’s particular trouble spots.
Regularly $499, you can enjoy a lifetime of access to everything in the Babbel Language Learning archive for 60 percent off, the best price you’ll find on the web right now, down to just $199.
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