Learning a new language is so challenging as an adult.

You know, the embarrassment we feel trying to do a new thing and being absolutely terrible

at it.

Well, our new sponsor, Babel, has solved this problem for us.

You see, in and I are headed to Portugal this fall, so we are thrilled to be using Babel

to pick up some conversational Portuguese.

I love that it's interactive, conversational, and can just focus on the basics we'll need

for travel rather than, you know, deep diving.

But if you do to prefer to deep dive, it certainly can, into lessons from real-language

teachers by native speakers.

Here's what ended up being the most helpful in using Babel, and that is their speech recognition

technology.

You record your own voice, practicing the words, and then it lets you know when you get

the right enunciation.

You know, without reduces tremendously?

Yeah, that embarrassment I mentioned earlier about doing things and not knowing how to

do them.

And so we can kind of flub along with the app, and it's just you and the app, and so nobody

can judge you, and you can go as slow or as quickly as you like.

Some studies show that 15 hours of using Babel is as effective as a full semester at college.

We love that it makes learning so many languages accessible to just about anyone.

It's helping millions of people quickly and confidently have real-world conversations.

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