Verbling: Because You Don’t Need Pants to Learn a Language

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Verbling.com – the key to at-home fluency

Language learners are faced with a conundrum: to learn a foreign language you need to speak it, but how are you supposed to speak a foreign language while you’re at home? Verbling is the key to that lock, and I’m going to tell you why it’s exactly what you need.

Professional instructors

I’ll be honest: anybody can be a teacher on Verbling. I know this because I toyed with the idea for a short time and taught a couple lessons. There’s an approval process, but it’s not hard to make it through. That isn’t to say, though, that you can’t find professional help. It takes a little bit of know-how (and by know-how I mean looking at a teacher’s reviews and qualifications), but you can find yourself your own state-of-the-art foreign language instructor without putting on pants. No, I’m not lying. Yes, I’m talking from experience!

Affordable

Professional instructors come with a price, right? Something-something you get what you pay for? Usually, yes. However, Verbling is a little different. What you need to remember is that these instructors live in countries that speak your target language, which means they live in a different economy than you do. So, while you may pay a professional foreign language instructor $75 an hour for a private lesson in NYC, you can find a native speaker in a cheaper country who charges less just because $75 an hour is just silly in their home country. And you know what? They get more business that way!

Private

Lessons at Verbling are always private lessons. I love this, because they’re completely unique, individualized sessions where I don’t have to worry about competing with other students, not understanding what’s going on, or feeling like I’m not getting my money’s worth because I’m sharing my time with another student. For a skill that is as intensive as language learning, I find this a really important part of the language learning process. Private lessons mean there’s always an opportunity to have your mistakes corrected, and you can always ask your instructor to explain a word or concept at your own leisure.

Flexibility

Verbling doesn’t have business hours, nor are their employees all on one side of the world. There is always a teacher available to you, no matter how difficult your schedule is. Verbling instructors are allowed the flexibility to create their own schedule, which means you can, too. Working full time with kids and only have the chance to work on your language learning goals at 4 in the morning? No problem, especially if your 4 in the morning is 4 in the afternoon in your teacher’s time zone!

Commitment-ready

You know the idea that if you invest in a gym membership, you’ll finally be motivated to go just for the sake of not wasting money? Verbling offers you the opportunity to make one-session commitments at a time, 5-session, and 10-session. Even better, instructors will offer you a discount if you purchase more than one session at a time. I’ve seen discounts range from a dollar off each session to $5. Those of you who really put the effort into language learning and stick with Verbling, that’s quite a bit of money to save!