Hey I’m F27, I am French and I speak good English. I could give you some small advice. We can exchange about ideas and how different our culture are.
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Hello, I see that there was a Babbel update that came out either yesterday or this morning. in the description it said ‘this is a big update, refresh your course to see the new content’. I am learning French and I don’t see any changes. Is there anywhere to see what was actually updated in the app, such as release notes or anything?
Babbel reached out to me about becoming a moderator of this subreddit. I made this sub years back when I went hunting for an answer to a question and realized there wasn’t a sub for babbel. Over the years, I’ve done very little moderating, preferring to let the sub grow and largely self moderate. Now with this request from Babbel, I ask the community: should Babbel be given moderator status over this sub?
I'm doing Babbel's Spanish (Spain), specifically not the LatAm one, and a lot of the audio pronounces "ll" and "y" as a hard "j" (like English "jump"). So "pollo" comes out as "pojo" instead of "poyo." My actual Spanish teacher from Spain marks this wrong every single time because it's not how spanish in Spain sounds like. That's pronunciation from Argentina/Uruguay.
So basically course labeled as "Spanish (Spain)" is teaching us to mispronounce basic vocabulary in a way that's specifically wrong for Spain, with zero indication anywhere that this is happening.
I contacted support about it, and their answer was that course is primarily based on real Spain Spanish and they deliberately mix in other regional accents anyway, which is at first okay occasionally and with some notes, but at second - means it's no longer consistently teaching actual Spain Spanish.
How many other regional quirks are silently baked into this course that I have no way of knowing about until I run into them in real life and get corrected?
UPD. Tried to continue... So basically everything is built of the wrong pronounciation. Yo = Jo. Ella = Eja. And so on.