Verbling: Learn a New Language 12+

I love the Verbling platform because it enables me to learn foreign languages in the comfort of my own home. However, it’s only great when used on the computer. So many bugs when used on either a Samsung or Apple phone and/or tablet. The orientation of video is confusing and cannot be turned on or off, hard to control settings once the video/audio has started, scheduling on the calendar is a pain and you can’t see all scheduled classes on the grid or just pick a date without going through all the weeks manually. Still lots of features missing to make the app itself 5 stars. The previous session it kept cutting off my connection. I also cannot view .jpg files my teachers have sent me unless I use the computer. Very inconvenient when I’m traveling and still wanna keep my learning going.

Verbling’s main service is connecting you with teacher and allowing video lessons. This part of the service is perfectly good. The teacher’s notes are accessible, words are saved and I’ve had no problem connecting to the video or scheduling lessons. But the app it self is kinda hot trash. I’m sure anyone using this just goes to the website once they have a teacher set up. The flash cards VERY frustratingly only allow you to practice five at a time. The text of the answers is cut off. You can’t switch orientation. Very basic functions of an app are missing. I like my teacher and am making progress in my learning a language from Verbling, but this app is annoyingly SO CLOSE to being useable in addition to that.

The only good thing I can say about having this app is that I receive notifications for messages and alerts before a class begins. However, every time I try to open a conversation with a student (I’m a teacher on Verbling), the app crashes- even after deleting the app and re-downloading it. Additionally, this app would be much more useful and user friendly if we could 1. View our lessons in a day/week/month calendar view, not a chronological list. And 2. If we could add lessons you our calendar from the app, like we can with the web version.

Overall, the only reason I have this app is because of the notifications