BaseLangReviews of baselang.com

If you are serious about learning Spanish and willing to put in at least 30 minutes a day, every day, then Baselang is a great service at a great value.

I'm enjoying every day the lessons.

I love learning here. It is the only way I have been able to practice speaking in a practical way.

There is always great availability with wide choice of teachers who are puncture and ready to teach. They make full use of every session. I can already fee my Spanish skills and knowledge improving even though I only started my 1st class 3 weeks ago.

super helpful. best program ive used so far to get me into fluency. i love the flexibility of scheduling the most. anytime i want a lesson i just join and im talking

The teachers have all been knowledgeable and more importantly, very approachable and patient.

unlimited classes from my living room!

I want to be clear this is specifically about the Boot Camp program, not BaseLang as a whole. I actually like the concept behind Boot Camp and think it makes a lot of sense, but the execution and standards weren’t consistent in my experience. For the first 4.5 weeks, my professor barely spoke to me in Spanish. There wasn’t much real conversation or even attempts at it. It was mostly reading, fill in the blank, and grammar work, and he just wasn’t very engaged. I realized I wasn’t improving much, and since I’m living in a Spanish speaking country, I knew something needed to change. I emailed the Boot Camp team, explained my experience, and they switched my teacher pretty quickly. My second teacher was definitely better. We spoke a lot more, and I think I would have made significantly more progress if I had her from the beginning. That’s why I think the program could be really good, but it needs stronger training and clearer standards to make sure it’s run the way it’s intended. It’s supposed to be conversational and in the first half of the Boot Camp that just wasn’t my experience. I started at level 1 and I’m around level 3 now, so there was some improvement. I may meet BaseLang’s definition of conversational, but I can’t confidently hold a real conversation in the actual world yet. The program is also mentally draining, even doing the semi intensive version. Based on my experience and results, I wouldn’t personally recommend Boot Camp, but I can see how it might work better for others. I’ve also heard a lot of good things about their other programs, like Real World, which I’ll be switching to now.