Keep reading if you want my unbiased feedback on the key strengths and weaknesses of both Babbel and Duolingo. Disclaimer: That’s Babbel if you’re nerdy like Monica Geller, and Duolingo if you’re carefree like Joey Tribbiani from "Friends". So, I’ve spent this week comparing Babbel and Duolingo, both enjoying immense popularity, to claim the ultimate winner. When you have a certain experience with linguistics (nerd alert: two MAs and 12 years of teaching), you start analyzing all language courses from the points of view of both a professor and a student. Not that I’m picky – I’m honestly the biggest conservative you've ever met – but I crave applicability and structure. Anyway, for the past two (Spanish and Polish) and the two I’m going to embark on (Dutch and French), I’ve been trying all kinds of online learning apps. Were that now, with the abundance of apps, I might have dared to say “20 languages”. Neither did I have the slightest idea about any online language learning platform or online language courses (did they even exist when I was so young?). Needless to say, I had no idea how to accomplish that. “I’m challenging myself to learn 10 languages”, I told my mom when I was 10.
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