In an effort to get cultured and be able to speak to my inlaws, my Mom has taken it upon herself to download every Iphone Italian app on the market. She showed Ale and I the Babbel app yesterday, which proceeded to keep us busy. She downloaded the Italian app and the idea behind it was to hear an Italian vocabulary word and repeat it. The app would then rank you from 0-100 and you would need above a 50 to proceed to the next word. It clearly did not take long to get into a serious competition between my Italian husband and I using this app. What I was positive I said correctly in Italian, Babbel would tell me I would only get about a 20. Ale would then whisper the word, and pass with a 70. The app was such a hard grader that I decided to download the English app and give my tri-lingual husband a run for his money.
That night we decided to test Ale’s English skills. He immediately started saying these English words in his heavy Italian accent and passing through the game with all scores in the 70s and 80s. The most amusing part of our game was when the category “animal sounds” came up and it taught Ale how to “meow, woof and cocka-doodle-doo”. I must admit that I wish I could give you all a video of Ale trying to pass the “meow” round without an Italian accent. Honestly Babbel, why are you telling my husband that English speakers need to know this? As my frustration with his success grew, it became clear that the English version was a lot more lenient than the Italian version. My frustration finally hit a boiling point and when they said “spaceship” I screamed “this is bullshit” and passed with a 74.
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