Babbel Challenge Week 3: Learn How You Learn

For the third week of the Babbel Challenge, you’ll reflect on the learning styles that help you along your language journey when the going gets tough (and the grammar gets messy).

By David Doochin

January 10, 2020

Babbel Challenge Week 3: Learn How You Learn

Kick off the year by joining the January Babbel Challenge! Every Monday in January, we’re publishing an article to help you establish a healthy learning habit. By the end of the month, you’ll be well on your way to reaching your language-learning goal.

This Week’s Challenge: Find Your Learning Style

Congrats on making it this far! You’re well on your way through the Babbel Challenge and to mastering a new language in the new year. In the past two weeks, you’ve begun establishing your language-learning community and laying the foundations for forming lasting habits. This week’s challenge is all about learning how you learn — taking a look at your own study methods and learning styles to set up a system that works best for you on your language journey. Start by taking this quiz to see which language skills you need to improve.

Some people learn best through experience and immersion, others by locking themselves in the library and running rote memorizations through their heads. Some cram information all at once, while others are fans of spaced learning. The truth is that there’s no best way to approach learning anything, whether it’s the phases of the moon, how to repair a car or the case markings in German grammar. When it comes to new languages, we at Babbel try to make learning a process that makes sense — from the way you can take our 15-minute lessons anywhere to the way they’re logically structured to get you conversational, and fast.

For this week’s challenge, find out how you learn best! Maybe it’s flashcards on Quizlet for vocab practice, watching crash-course YouTube videos, practicing with a friend or jamming out to music with foreign language lyrics.

Whatever it is, we want to hear about it — and you might end up teaching your follow challenge participants about new learning styles along the way!

The perks of completing this week’s challenge include:

Refining your own understanding of how you process and interpret the world
Focusing your learning on the areas where you are weakest so you can improve quickly
Exploring new ways to learn language beyond what you already know