BaseLangReviews of baselang.com

This is an amazing service! I love the flexibility and freedom of choosing teachers!

Life changing. Love the teachers. Love the setup for scheduling. Curriculum is great!

Very Good super

Great class! Excellent teacher! Very patient! Will take a class with her in the future!

super handy service, you can get tons of speaking practise, speakers have good internet connections, and speak english well to guide you, great diversity of speakers and there is literally always someone available. Goes in blocks of 30 minutes so it you decide to speak at 12:01 you will have to wait 29 minutes to get started in the worse case scenario which isnt that bad.

I've taken 350+ classes this year in BaseLang, and I have very mixed feelings about the platform. The good: The curriculum is truly excellent—this is the way to actually learn Spanish. Instead of stupid AI-driven apps, BaseLang lets you speak 1:1 with a real teacher, and fluency is actually possible. I also love the opportunity to try out many teachers and find the ones you sync with in personality and teaching style. I currently have two primary teachers whom I adore! The bad: Speaking of teachers, I am very concerned about the teacher experience side of the business. Aside from my husband and maybe my virtual teammates, I see my Spanish teachers more than anyone else, so of course I've gotten to know them and am genuinely invested in their wellbeing too. I do not believe BaseLang pays their teachers a livable wage, and I can't help but believe we are all exploiting them and cheaper labor. For me, personally, I would be willing to pay more for my teachers to get paid more. I even suggested to BaseLang that they give us students the opportunity to "tip" or "buy a coffee" for our teachers. Of course I received no feedback or even acknowledgment of receipt. I also believe BaseLang ultimates punishes the best teachers and pushes them into burnout. My first long-term teacher was one of the most popular in the platform, but BaseLang fired him anyway. I'm worried that some of the other best teachers are headed in the same direction. The other thing I really hate is the electives. A gross number of electives is required for each level in order to officially progress to the next. In theory, electives make sense, but in practice, they're actually miserable. I believe electives should help me live and travel in Spanish-speaking countries, but these courses are essentially useless and a complete waste of time. For example, I took an elective for "at the mechanic" because I assumed it would help me go to the mechanic for basic things: my tire is flat, I need an oil change, something is working correctly. But no—instead, it was teaching me very in-depth vocabulary for intricate car parts, as if I were studying to be a mechanic. Literally every elective is a waste of time. Imagine needing 15-20 H O U R S of these for each level that you complete! I recently sent a detailed feedback about the electives and I purposefully marked the note as "response required." I'll give you one guess if I actually got a response from BaseLang. To be honest, I will continue my course curriculum with BaseLang, but I will not continue my subscription past that. I also will no longer recommend this platform to anyone who's looking to learn Spanish. One final note: There is a BaseLang physical school in Medellín that is a separate entity from the online school. BaseLang Medellín is a wonderful experience full of the best staff and teachers. If you're interested in in-person classes, do not hesitate to go there.

I’ve studied with BaseLang in 2022 and 2023 but then had to stop. Now I am restarting my BaseLang learning once again at the end of 2025, and having a great time. Even though I have not spoken Spanish in about 2 years, I am picking it up really well and find that I have retained lot’s of the knowledge I gained a few years back with BaseLang. I think this platform is great!

Great teachers, but it seams like all of them are now from Venezula is that becuse it is cheeper, it would be great to have more varity