Verbling’s mission is to empower people all over the world to become fluent in a foreign language. We use online live video technology to help people develop their skills together with teachers and students on a global scale. The teachers and students who make our mission possible are spread across six continents.
Verbling (verbling.com) has 767 customer reviews on Five Star Index, with an average rating of 4.4 out of 5.
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verbling.com
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Language Learning
Location
San Francisco, California
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2026
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Teachers can cancel lessons at any time with no penalty (and no added bonuses to users for inconvenience)
Yet you as a user cannot reschedule or cancel a lesson without being penalized.
Not a fair system if you ask me
Response from VerblingDec 1, 2022
Hello, Elias:
Thanks for your review and sorry for the disappointment.
Could you please send us an e-mail at [email protected]?
So, we can understand your issue and provide you with the correct information.
We are looking forward to hearing back from you.
Have a lovely day,
Verbling.
JI
Jerald I.
Peter and his manager at Verbling were…
Peter and his manager at Verbling were extremely reasonable and considerate in refunding me the money that I spent on Spanish lessons after my teacher abruptly retired from teaching.
JH
Juanf H.
Quick and personal help
Helpful and personal!
CL
CLS
Really fast response
Really fast response considering I sent my email just before the weekend. Problem resolved so all is well!
MH
Mark H.
Peter really went above and beyond
Peter really went above and beyond. Such a refreshing approach compared to the usual cut-and-paste / not reading the issue properly stuff which is pretty standard these days.
LB
Leora B.
User-hostile website, poor customer service. This is a review of the…
10/22/22 This is a review of the company and its website, its customer service, its user interface, etc - NOT of the teachers. I paid for 5 lessons and after many attempts, I have been unable to schedule the lessons because I've been moving and can't get the website to understand what time-zone I'm in. When I wrote for support I got a reply, "Sure you can change your time-zone!" with a link to a huge list of obscure places and time zones that doesn't contain either Portugal or Lisbon or any other city in Portugal. And there's no search tool, so it's maddening. I still can't schedule the lessons I paid for. And as far as I can tell, I can never get a refund.
10/23/2022
Verbling did respond by assuring me that my location is on their list of about 100 cities and states thrown together in super confusing super abstruse ordering system, and after combing through the list a few times I finally found my time zone.
But why on earth do they not have a search engine so you can enter your location to find your timezone? Email customer service is way slower and inferior to phone customer service where you used to be able to ask a question and get an answer and move on instead of having to wait a few days and then get an answer that may or may not require an exchange which might take another few days and so on. It's a waste of customers' time.
Similarly, rescheduling of lessons is much more laborious and time-consuming than it should be.
Again, this is not a review of the teachers, only of Verbling, its website, and its slow customer service.
Response from VerblingOct 23, 2022
Hello Leora,
We're really sorry to hear you are having issues with your time zone. We would love to look into this with you in further detail to check how we can help!
We're trying to request your email address so our team can look into this for you.
If you haven't already received the request from Trustpilot, please feel free to get in touch with [email protected] and refer back to this review so that both our teams are aligned.
Many thanks.
Team Busuu
JO
JoJo
Had a confusing question about lesson…
Had a confusing question about lesson package expiration and got my answer after a few email exchanges.
Response from VerblingOct 21, 2022
Hi JoJo!
Thanks a lot for your review❤️!
We're grateful for all the feedback that we receive, and this motivates us to continue working hard to improve our product.
Thanks,
Busuu Team