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0 HOW TO: Learn and Practice Languages Using Social Media

Laura I. Gómez is an online media executive and former college language instructor. You can follow her on latinageek.com and on Twitter...

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0 Babbel Launches EU Election Tutorials

In anticipation of the upcoming European Union elections, Berlin-based language site Babbel just launched a "Politics and Voting" section to their...

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0 New Vocab Package “Politics and Voting” in time for EU Elections

Though we at Babbel are of course internationally minded and outward-looking, we can’t deny that we’re based in Europe — in Berlin, to be exact. The...

  • Source: babbel.com (Company Blog)
  • Date: May 28, 2009
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0 Markus Witte at Next09

Right now, Markus Witte is presenting the Babbel concept and strategy at  Next09 in Hamburg and explaining why Babbel is a good example of  “Shared...

  • Source: babbel.com (Company Blog)
  • Date: May 6, 2009
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0 Babbel.com at Next ‘09

We’re very pleased that we’ve been selected to present for the start-up track this year at Next09, which will take place in Hamburg May 5 and 6. Next...

  • Source: babbel.com (Company Blog)
  • Date: May 4, 2009
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0 First Premium Course On Babbel

We’re excited to announce that we’ve just released a full introductory Spanish course for native speakers of German. The German title of the course is...

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  • Date: Apr 7, 2009
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0 When Startups monetize! Babbel starts first paid services

Babbel - the language learning site competing with the likes of Mango Languages, LiveMocha and LingQ among others - has been free for a year now....

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0 Get the sexy nerds to answer your questions

Our tour de Berlin just brought us over to Hiogi's knowledge workers Martin Kolbe, Christoph Daecke and ConSoulting's Christian Soult!
What is Hiogi?...

  • Source: amazee.com (Company Blog)
  • Date: Mar 26, 2009
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0 The Internet Speaks English

According to Internet World Stats, with 28.7%, the majority of people online are English speakers. Spanish speaking users come in at a far third with...

  • Source: babbel.com (Company Blog)
  • Date: Mar 17, 2009
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0 Change Comes to the Babbel Blog

In these days the Babbel Blog will be going through some changes, and our readers will notice a shift in the content. The focus will now be more on...

  • Source: babbel.com (Company Blog)
  • Date: Mar 3, 2009
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0 “Cell phone learning can make a difference” - Matthew Kam on a game-based approach for English learning in India

Matthew Kam, an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, speaks about his recent doctoral dissertation research in Indian communities and...

  • Source: babbel.com (Company Blog)
  • Date: Feb 27, 2009
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0 Let the machine guide you: Touring with your ears

To know the world,  just listen to it - these words from writer Amin Maalouf are the motto of Zevisit.  The website offers free audio guides to a...

  • Source: babbel.com (Company Blog)
  • Date: Feb 17, 2009
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0 Magic, “mumblecore”, and not exactly talkin’ bout my generation: Interview at the Berlinale with Andrew Bujalski

One film the Babbel Bloggers caught during the Berlinale (February 5-15) was “Beeswax”. This is American auteur Andrew Bujalski’s third feature, which...

  • Source: babbel.com (Company Blog)
  • Date: Feb 11, 2009
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0 “An interesting and intelligent teacher”

Not such a bad idea to broaden your target group by teaching them the language you are broadcasting in, right? The British Broadcasting Company - BBC...

  • Source: babbel.com (Company Blog)
  • Date: Feb 9, 2009
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0 Library to go: Google books go cellular

While I have long since forgone interactions in the physical world in favor of their counterparts/improvements online — listening to the radio, going...

  • Source: babbel.com (Company Blog)
  • Date: Feb 6, 2009
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0 Learning with the heardrum

“Neural tissue required to learn and understand a new language will develop automatically from simple exposure to the language” - that’s Paul...

  • Source: babbel.com (Company Blog)
  • Date: Feb 3, 2009
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0 Babbel throws out cash to buy FriendsAbroad

FriendsAbroad, an online language community startup head on towards shut down and 500,000 of its users being encouraged to join another key language...

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0 We have ways of making you talk

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Background: German firm Babbel.com has just bought out British FriendsAbroad.com - but Brit owned Learn10.com is there to make you learn...

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0 We have ways of making you talk

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Background: German firm Babbel.com has just bought out British FriendsAbroad.com - but Brit owned Learn10.com is there to make you learn...

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0 We have ways of making you talk

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Background: German firm Babbel.com has just bought out British FriendsAbroad.com - but Brit owned Learnitlists.com is there to make you...

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