Update: November 24, 2025: Updated page to reflect that Babbel is blacklisted from the Black Friday roundup.
Blacklisted
I've decided to no longer feature any sales from Babbel on Actual Fluency. Here is why:
- The product is discounted too often, and by too much. The savings declared in Black Friday is simply not true. Their Black Friday deal might be 60-70% off, but you can usually always get 50% off on any given month.
- The product is not updated enough, and suffers tremendous quality issues based on the language you pick. Languages like Spanish are fine, and somewhat modern, but less popular languages are outdated and boring.
- The company behind is not good. They basically outsourced their entire marketing and partner management to some soulless marketing company, and they have no concept of communication with their partners - even someone like me who has referred quite a lot of customers their way.
Check out the GOOD deals here:
Forget Babbel. There's a ton of other good deals here:
Check out all the other Black Friday Deals here
Changelog
November 22, 2024: Updated post for 2024. Changed wording from 60 to 70% discount.
Update: November 24, 2025: Updated page to reflect that Babbel is blacklisted from the Black Friday roundup.
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