Babbeling Brook
ICYMI: Every day this week I’m highlighting at least one gift idea you can nab at the last minute across Canada. Today’s featured brand is all about broadening your horizons by learning a new language.
What It Is: Is someone in your life traveling in the New Year? Are they moving to a new country? Do they need to learn a new language or are they looking to brush up on one from their childhood? Whatever the case may be, Babbel has got you covered! This award-winning app allows you to learn the language of your choice on the go, with accessibility on your desktop and mobile devices that picks up seamlessly between devices. Currently you can learn 14 different languages – including common picks like French and Spanish and more exotic options like Turkish or Indonesian.
Not only is the platform super accessible, it’s set up in 10-20 minute bite-sized lessons that can be done daily without overwhelming your already jam-packed life. It even incorporates review lessons to ensure you’re retaining information after you’ve learned it. You can even tailor which lessons you take based on what you’re most interested in – from business to travel to everything in between. Speak a new language with confidence and a true understanding with this unique app. It makes a fab gift idea – currently gift cards aren’t available but you can always offer to pay for it when a loved one signs up, or sign up yourself and then transfer the account to your recipient. J’adore!
Who It’s For: Your sibling that’s spending a semester abroad. Your parents that are going on a multi-month trip. Your spouse that’s branching out with new business opportunities in a foreign market. Your bestie that’s challenging themselves to learn a new language as their New Year’s Resolution.
What It Costs: A one-year subscription is $170 – or just $14 a month!
Where It’s At: You can learn more about Babbel on their website (and take a sample exercise for a spin), or download it on the App or Google Play Store.
CONTEST ALERT! I am delighted to be offering up a one-year subscription to Babbel to one of my lucky readers. Want to enter to win it? Here’s how to enter:
1) Heads up: you must be a subscriber to the Canadian Gift Guide to enter this giveaway. It’s as simple as finding ‘The Gift of Gab’ box in the righthand column and dropping in your email or clicking follow. Then leave a comment by January 3, 2017 telling me which language you’d like to learn (hint: check the Babbel website for all your options!)
2) Entries are limited to one per person / per email address / per household (or more if you score bonus entries). A random draw will be conducted on or around January 4, 2017 to select the winner, who will have 48 hours to respond before another winner is chosen in their place.
3) Entries are limited to Canadians that have reached the age of majority in their province. Quebec is not eligible to participate in this promotion.
4) Bonus Entry: Follow Babbel on Twitter and send out a Tweet tagging them + me (@cdngiftguide) that promotes this giveaway and links back to this post! Leave a link to your Tweet in a separate comment below.
Canadian Gift Guide 
Subscriber by email. I’d like to learn Polish, since my daughter-in-law is from Poland. Her English is better than most people I know, but I’d like to be better able to communicate with her parents.
I would like to learn Spanish or polish up my French.
I’d like to improve my French. It has really dropped off since high school.
I am a subscriber. I would love to learn French.
I tweeted: https://twitter.com/wandabee004/status/811196626870145024
I would like to learn Spanish and renew my French.
Italian and Spanish
Going to Paris in July – need to learn French!
French. My brother speaks it fluently and it’s a beautiful language!
Italian
Italian since I love the country
I’d love to learn Arabic! I have a friend who’s trying to learn Spanish though, so this time of year it’s hard to justify keeping it for myself
I would like to learn French.
Italian
I will be traveling and would love to brush up on my German.
german
Spanish – ahhhhhhh…
Frankly I would love to learn Swahili because it’s such a lovely, fun language, but I think Spanish or German would be more practical!
French
tweeted @dow003
french and spanish
I’d love to learn more French so I could converse in French with my bilingual daughter.
I’d love to learn Spanish to be able to speak with my neighbours:).
I would love to learn spanish, or maybe brush up on my french
I’d like to learn French.
I would like to brush up on my French and also would like to learn Italian.
I’d love to learn Italian as I’d like to visit there and would love to immerse myself in the Italian culture – learning the language would really help.
Spanish
GREEK
I would love to learn german
I would like to brush up on my Russian
I would love to win this for my granddaughter who is a world traveler and loves to go to exotic places and I’m sure she would really find this useful. Not sure wicht language she would need next.
I would like to learn Spanish- 1) so I can speak to my Spanish friend in her native language 2) To help with an upcoming Spanish course that I’ll be taking and 3) To get around easier when in Mexico
I tweeted this contest : ) @CatAteMyDogma
https://twitter.com/CatAteMyDogma/status/811365902679674881
“Babbel learn a language contest! Woo! Enter now!!
https://canadiangiftguide.com/2016/12/20/babbeling-brook/ …
@babbel @cdngiftguide”
I would like to learn either french or spanish
spanish
I’d like to learn Spanish.
I’d like to become fluent in French.
I’ve always wanted to learn Spanish! I started teaching myself for a while, but haven’t for a while!
French or Spanish.
I would like to learn French.
Norwegian or French
I would learn french
Bonus
I would like to learn french.
I would like to learn spanish.
Spanish! My husband and I were just talking about starting in the new year.
I would love to learn French. When I was in high school everyone took French, but for some reason my Dad decided I should learn Latin! (Such a useful language)
I’d love to learn Italian!
Espanol! I’d love to learn Spanish.
I’d love to learn German.
I would love to learn French.
Spanish
I’d like to learn Spanish so I can get along better in Mexico
I would like to learn Spanish or Indonesian.
I would love to learn Spanish because my closest friends are all native Spanish speakers and I want to be able to speak the language when I go travelling with them to South America.
I’m already a subscriber. French, for sure! I studied it as an adult, at night class, many years ago, and I wanted so much to learn to be fluent…finished all my studies, got a chance to practice in France and Quebec, but….but, that was all many, many years ago and I’ve lost or forogtten so much of it, plus I was never able to become fully fluent. I would so love something like this, that could help me get back into it and become a better speaker.
Definitely Norweigan. Our cousins visit every year from Oslo, and I’ve mastered counting 1-10 and please and thank you, but would love to surprise them and be able to have a full conversation in Norwegan rather than English next summer!
I’ve like to learn Spanish or brush up on my French!
I would really like to be fluent in French.
ITS TIME FOR ME TO GET BETTER AT SPANISH AS I GO THERE ON VACATION EVERY YEAR….
I would love to improve on my French 🙂
I would either do French so I could catch up to the kids or Portuguese so I can talk more with my inlaws in their own language. Hard call!
I would like to learn Spanish
tweeted https://twitter.com/VictoriaEss2/status/811584046614671360
Would love to perfect the French language.
I’d like to learn German or French. I wish I would have paid more attention in French class when I was a student.
I’d like to converse in French
I would like to learn Japanese
I would love to leave Spanish. Such a beautiful language
I would love to learn German
I would love to learn German or French. Or Russian……….
I’d love to learn Italian!
Great win,would like to learn Spanish or brush up on my Hungarian
I would to learn Spanish
I would love to learn Italian.
Spanish please!!
I would like to learn more French to keep up with my daughter.
I’d love to improve my French and learn some Spanish.
I want to learn German!
I would like to learn Spanish
I’ve been wanting to learn Spanish for years!!
Spanish would be useful, although I lived in Japan for awhile and it would be nice to brush up on that. But then my parents speak German so that would be helpful as well. So many choice.
My first choice would be Spanish followed closely by German.
I would love to learn Spanish
Always wanted to learn Spanish – it is such a beautiful language!
I would love to learn Spanish.
I took a quick Spanish class years ago and would LOVE to take this year long subscription course of SPANISH.
I would love to learn to speak German!
I have been wanting to learn Spanish for a long time.
I WANT TO LEARN PORTUGUESE.
I’m an email subscriber and would love to learn Spanish!
I would like to keep up my French. This would help.
Subscribed via email. German please.
I would like to learn Spanish.
I would like to learn Spanish, so I can speak to my neighbors.
It would be Italian…my husband and I are visiting his family in Italy next year and I need to brush up on the language.
I like to learn and an interested in languges
I’d love to learn Norwegian, so I could travel to Norway and meet my Viking cousins!
I love to learn indonesian
I would love to learn Dutch as this is my family on my father’s side native language.
I’d like to learn French.
I’d love to learn Russian. Thank you so much!! Merry Christmas.
Extra entry on Twitter:
I’d like to learn the other official language of my country French
My hubby’s family is from the Netherlands, so I would be interested in learning Dutch
I would like to learn/refresh my French. My granddaughter is in French First Language and I would like to be able to converse with her en francais.
French
I would like to learn Spanish
I would love to learn to speak Spanish! We are hoping to get back to Cuba sometime soon.
I would brush up on my French and then learn German!
I would love to learn French. There are so many job opportunities near where I live that require French as a first or second language. It would open up a new employment world for me.
I would like to learn Spanish.
I would like to learn Italian, and brush up on my French and Spanish.
My tweet: https://twitter.com/iagreesmedley/status/816084667107606528
I would love to learn French!
I would like to learn Spanish
I would love to learn Italian! I’m going to Italy in September.. on a walking tour of Tuscany and Umbria… would be great to know the local lingo.
I’m a subscriber Would like to learn Italian French or Dutch.
Following Babbel on twitter tweeted https://twitter.com/dmhaen/status/816240646193291264
I would love to learn Spanish and French
I would like to learn Spanish
Portuguese as I am trying to learn it to complete my Masters in Brazilian History 🙂
I would love to learn Spanish