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Beep boop is great because it allows me to take drills whenever I have 30 minutes to spare. The live teachers make it fun and I enjoy chatting with other students after the drills. I especially enjoy the conversation drills where we get to speak about different themes.
Beep Boop has been a great experience EXCEPT for when it comes to honoring time and refunds. Beep Boop is free, but it offers opportunities where a student can select a topic for a drill class and pay, in advance, for the class. I chose to use this option back in January with one of Beep Boop's teachers. Although I paid $2 to select the topic, we did not get to do the lesson because the instructor thought that another student selected and paid for the session. I wanted to explain to her that I paid for the session and would most likely be the only student, but she never gave me a chance to explain since my microphone was muted the whole time. From what I know, Beep Boop characterizes students as “Observers” or “Participants” based on level. If you are a lower level student (L2) joining a L3 drill, then your microphone gets muted during that session. Beep boop instructors do this so lower level students can observe while more advanced students participate and interact with the coach. Typically, instructors will allow “Observers” to introduce themselves before a drill starts, but the instructor I had immediately muted my microphone when I joined and never let me speak to explain that I was the one who selected and paid for the topic. I couldn’t even write to the instructor because the Beep Boop platform has no chat feature. Additionally, they do not use cameras. It’s all audio-based.As a result, we spent about twenty five minutes waiting for another student who was never going to arrive. I understand that I joined as an "observer", but I should have received a chance to introduce myself and explain that I selected the topic. I messaged BeepBoop to either receive another lesson or my money back. Beep Boop informed me they would refund me. It’s the end of February, and I never received the refund. If you use Beep Boop, it’s great for free classes. I would like to still use it, but I hope instructors will do better in communicating with observers. All this being said, do not pay for a drill, especially if you are an “Observer”.
Did beepboop for 3 years. Much better than previous programs I had tried and gotten bored with. Beepboop has live classes with pronunciation correction, lessons with really useful vocabulary and you learn grammar naturally by speaking. Best part was meeting all the other nice students. We have since traveled together to México and Colombia to improve our spanish even more and got to meet some of the instructors in person. Life changer. Note couldn't set the date of experience back more than 1 year. But I did mid 2020 till mid 2023
I needed to improve my Spanish for my new job, and Beepboop was a great, flexible, online option. I bought a Silver Pro membership for three months and signed up as a Level Two student. Generally, I did two classes, four days a week, one as a pro speaker and one as an observer. I definitely learned a lot!The best parts about Beepboop are the flexibility of classes, knowledgeable and patient instructors, and opportunities to converse with other people who speak Spanish at your level. I also enjoyed the variety of topics that were covered during classes. Occasionally, for some of the classes where I signed up as an observer, the class wasn't full and the instructor would offer to upgrade me to a pro speaker. However, I was not made aware that I would be charged for these upgrades. At the end of my membership, I received a bill for $30.00 that I had no idea that I had incurred. So if you are a Silver Pro member and don't want to rack up hidden fees, don't make the same mistake I did and make sure to stick with your 1 pro drill per day.
BeepBoop follows the Rassias method: Simple drills, repeated constantly with contemporaneous correction. The instructors, who are all native Spanish speakers, (primarily in México), follow well-prepared slides that illustrate the drills. Up to three Pro students are called upon one at a time to repeat the drill, and then gently corrected. (You can sit in for free, but you don't get to speak and therefore receive no correction.) The slides train the eyes, the native pronunciation and correction train the ear, and the repetition eventually penetrates the student skull. I found the drills to be well thought-out. For example, the drill on Ser/Estar in the pretérito and imperfect shows the correct application of grammar rules. That's how we learned English as babies. Other drills cover common situations, like "At the Market" The cheapest subscription, which cost me $250 in May, 2024, allows one Pro drill each day for three months. ("Pro" means "participant" in BeepBoopese.) It takes a half-hour to review the drill before class and look up any new words.The 25-minute drills are scheduled 18 hours a day, seven days a week. Students can review the drill material after the class all they want.
I'm amazed this exists. Seconds after signing up, I was dropped into a class and got a real person helping me with my Spanish pronunciation. The class was too advanced for me, but I checked the schedule after and then found some really basic ones that were more my speed. Check it out.
Wish I had discovered this when it first came about. Took me a while to drum up the courage to join a class as wasnt sure what to expect and was a bit concerned about feeling 'stupid'. Nothing to be worried about. The teachers are helpful, as it audio only it makes one feel comfortable, the drills are related to every day use of spanish. The fact you can join in on a drill that is above your level of spanish and observe - is fantastic! Also, you dont have to pay anything to observe (or even have the odd chance of being included), but obviously there is a charge if you want to be regularly included in the class - if you use it on a regular basis then the cost is very much worth it.
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