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Have you been thinking about learning a new language? Maybe you started to pick one up and bailed after a few lessons, or perhaps your last foray was back in school. Either way, learning a new language is the perfect way to pass the time, improve your resume, and prepare for whatever epic adventures are sure to lie ahead — and it’s more affordable than ever.

Scoop up a Babbel Lifetime Subscription for half the usual price and get started studying right away. The language-learning app was developed by over 100 expert linguists and offers 14 languages, including Spanish (Spain), German, Italian, French, Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish, Dutch, Polish, Indonesian, Norwegian, Danish, Russian, and Spanish (Latin America). 

Babbel stands out from the language e-learning crowd for a couple of reasons, but the coolest is probably that 73% of surveyed customers feel that they’d be able to hold a short conversation within just five hours of using the app (Babbel). 

Users also love that it’s geared to help them talk like locals. The Economist highlights, “Babbel’s lessons, unlike Duolingo’s, first focus on building basic conversational skills.” Read: Avoid picking up those too-formal phrases that give you away to native speakers. 

The lessons are also specifically tailored to the nuance of each language. PCMag notes, “With Babbel, you learn concepts, words, and phrases unique to the language at hand—it's not a cookie-cutter course for each language, the way many of its competitors are.” 

This widely loved award-winning app also has over 550k 4.5-star reviews on the Google Play Store and over 180k 4.6-star reviews on the Apple App Store.

Getting started is really simple. The short lessons are only 10 to 15 minutes each, so you can easily fit at least one into your day. The platform also features speech recognition technology to help you keep your pronunciation on point. You can take your course on the go, too, by downloading lessons and accessing them in offline mode. 

Babbel’s take is that you’ll be speaking confidently in your language of choice after just one month of lessons. And with over 10 million happy users worldwide, it’s easy to believe. Jump on this chance to get fluent fast: The Babbel Lifetime Subscription costs $399 at full price, but you can get it on sale for $199, or 50% off.

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