Learn a Language on your iPhone or iPod touch
Yesterday we released Babbel Mobile — iPhone Apps for seven languages. We’re happy to be receiving positive feedback from all over the world. In fact, in some countries, we’re already ranking in the top ten educational Apps in the App Store!
The idea of Babbel Mobile is to allow you to study languages anywhere, anytime. We think it’s a great way to make some productive use of your in-between time — whether it’s on the way to work, on the commercial break or on the beach. You don’t even need an internet connection. But if you do happen to be online, everything you learn is consistently synchronized with your Babbel Review Manager, making the time you spend learning efficient.
Babbel Mobile can be used to complement Babbel.com or as a stand-alone vocabulary trainer. Babbel subscribers can access the full vocabulary of 3000 words, while others can try a free lesson and purchase vocabulary for a onetime price of €5.99 / US$ 7.99. In any case, downloading the App is free for everyone. You can use your existing Babbel login or sign up cost-free in a few seconds.
Here are some links to the App Store for learning the following languages: German, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese and Swedish.
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Dear arniet,
this is David, the lead developer of Babbel Mobile.
I am sorry to hear that you are experiencing these problems with our new version. If you haven’t already, please contact the Babbel Mobile support team. Don’t forget to include your screen name so that we may check which word within your Refresher might cause the problem.
From the top of my head and without any details, I am unable suggest a workaround.
Hi, I’m using the iphone app on an iPhone 3G and now I’ve also a 3Gs which I wish to use. I’ve to buy another time the dictionary? Or When I click on buy this will be free? I’ve installed the app and I’m registered with the same itunes account on both device but on the 3gs It say to buy the full dictionary…
Hi Nicholas, if you use the same App Store account on your new 3Gs the download will be free. It’s a little misleading because it does look like another purchase but if you start the purchase you’ll get an alert that it’s not charged.
hi,
i purchased the babbel app for iphone after seeing the trial version. What i particularly liked was the ability to see the words into complete phrases.
However, after the recent update (1.2.1) this seems to have disappeared. Is there something wrong?
Thanks a lot for alerting us: indeed the current version of the iPhone App is missing two trainer types. We fixed this bug and submitted an update. As soon as Apple approves the new version, you can download it to your iPhone.
Thank you so much for your quick response.
With the sentence feature activated, babbel is worth every penny spent on it.
By the way, in order to use the features on the site version of babbel, do i need to buy a separate license, or the iphone license is good for both?
The new version of the App is now available with the phrase trainers re-activated. Enjoy.
You can use the same login for the iPhone app and http://www.babbel.com and you can refresh your vocab on both platforms. But in order to get full access to all content on http://www.babbel.com (which is a multiple of what you have on the iPhone), you need to subscribe. It’s affordable, though.
I purchased babbel Swedish on my iPhone 3GS, due to a manufacturing flaw I had the unit replaced by apple. Upon restoring my data to my new phone I have noticed that babbel is prompting me to pay for the premium content oncemore.
How can I restore my dictionary without paying the content charge again?
You can just download the content again from the app store. Apple won’t charge you again for the same product. They’ll let you know that the download is free before the final step.
Hello, i have a problem, when i want to buy de full vontent on my ipod touch, it show a message, this is’nt a try acciunt, try to create another account in de enviorement sandbox, i hope that you can help with this.
Thanks
Hello Victor,
This Sanbox Error is known in some jailbroken iPhones. It’s a general App Store problem that’s not related to the Babbel App. I’m afraid we can’t help you with that.
What you could do to get the full Babbel content on your iPhone is to subscribe to Babbel.com for 5,95€ per month. As soon as you are a Babbel.com subscriber, the full content is downloaded to your iPhone automatically.
Best,
markus
using iphone app for french. Babbel worked well. Suddenly now having difficulty with app shutting off after one or two words from refresher. Again, was perfect. Suddenly working poorly. Unloaded app, then reloaded with fresh download. Anyone else having this issue? Any workarounds?