Hi everybody
Today I am reviewing an online language teaching platform called Verbling.
So Verbling reached out to me and asked me to review their platform
They didn't tell me to review anything in specific
So what I did is I booked a trial lesson and I'm just gonna take you through the process of what my experience was using Verbling.
There are two main things that I love about Verbling.
First of all the interface.
Although it looks like a lot of other online teaching platforms
there are some really unique features that you can't find somewhere else. And secondly,
the embedded online classroom, so you don't need separate software to take lessons you do everything on the website. There's a PDF viewer
There's a chat box. There's formatting emojis, the whole shebang.
So those are the two main things I enjoy.
So let me get into this right now and take you through the interface and then
I will take you through my lesson experience.
At first glance, the dashboard for finding tutors is pretty simple and you can use filters to look for test
preparation or any specific language learning skills.
I like that while you're scrolling the person's video introduction and calendar gets pinned until you scroll to the next person
It's also really simple to change your availability
so you can be sure to find a tutor that suits your time zone. You can click into their profiles,
read a bit more about them, and you can also see the languages that this teacher currently speaks
so if you have other languages in common, that's really cool.
I enjoyed that the tutor profile page has a lot of stats and also shows they're available to be up front
These ratings are super cute
And if you're not sure if you're booking the right tutor, there are reviews that you can go through first to see what other students have thought.
So overall I was really pleased with the lesson booking experience
It was super smooth and I'm glad that there was a chat function where I could contact my teacher beforehand.
The first interesting thing that caught my eye was the community tab.
So under here, you will see there are decks, discussions, articles and
feature suggestions.
I did choose
korean as my language to learn but what I see here when I explored decks is, decks in a whole lot of different languages
I wonder if I can search for Korean
Nice there seems to be audio
science
Okay, so it just reads the English. history
But maybe it's an English deck let's find Korean food here we go
Hmm okay. I can see it's really laggy and buggy
But it's nice that there's a bit of audio. It's a little robotic and awkward, but we can live with that
I mean free flash cards, nice.
And there are so many other features that you could explore
But the last one I'm gonna touch on is the articles section.
Over here, we have a whole bunch of articles. So I'm just gonna search for
Japanese oh
There are actual articles written in Japanese. This is so cool. I'm so happy. Ok. Let's open the first one
very cool
I am so satisfied by this.
And then there's also discussions where you can make posts, your teachers can make posts and you can browse what the community is saying
There's lots of forums and discussions, the flashcard decks that you can make together and that's quite different from a lot of platforms
I've seen that only push the tutoring aspect. So I'm very happy to see that it seems to be a very human driven community.
Ok, I'm ready for my test lesson now, it's just gonna be 30 minutes a test lesson with mr. Myeonghoon.
And even though it's just half an hour test lesson, I'm gonna be practicing some writing for the topic exam.
So now I need to figure out how to enter into the lesson and I actually don't know how to do that
Here we go. Join lesson. Okay, perfect
We started off by doing a self introduction where he just asked me about how long I've been learning Korean
And we just got to know each other
Then he opened a PDF viewer where we could look at the same document at the same time
Our lesson was a mixture of talking on video as well as typing in the chat
Being able to type in the chat was good because he could see my spelling and fix any mistakes if there were
So I accidentally scrolled to another place in the document and we found it really hard to find our page again
So that was pretty awkward
The thing that bugged me the most was that there was a glitch in the typing box
So sometimes my characters didn't come out and my teacher said he had the same problem as well.
At the end of my lesson my tutor recommended
I use Anki for korean vocabulary and I really appreciated that
he didn't just log off immediately, but that he took an interest in my Korean learning and recommended some resources to me.
I just finished my lesson
I think it was awesome in the sense that the teacher was well prepared and he fixed my mistakes really quicky.
A trial lesson is very short half an hour goes by very quickly
So it did feel rushed but in order to get a sense of what the teacher is like
I found it to be really good there were some technical difficulties. I really struggled to type,
so the chat box froze.
Otherwise, I found Verbling to have a lot more features compared to other websites, so I'm pretty pleased.
I do believe that my chat with a teacher will be here.
Excellent, everything we discussed in the lesson is saved right here, and I had a really good lesson
So I'll definitely consider using Verbling again.
If you are interested in trying verbling I will put a URL in the description
Also, there is a free trial lesson
So let me know what your experience is.
Thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next video. Byee
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