Submit a Story
Sort By:
Votes Story
0 World's Easiest Languages To Learn

To follow up on one of our most popular posts, World's Hardest Languages to Learn, I decided to do a quick survey or what people think is the easiest...

  • Source: leximo.org (Company Blog)
  • Date: Apr 12, 2009
  • Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles
  • Comments: 0
0 April Fools Folks - Leximo Not Bought by Google...Sorry :-(

Okay, we need to clarify this before it gets out of hand. Leximo has not been bought by Google. It was that time of the year, April Fool's Day and...

  • Source: leximo.org (Company Blog)
  • Date: Apr 2, 2009
  • Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles
  • Comments: 0
0 Political barriers shouldn’t be linguistic barriers

Since this blog focuses on learning languages and forming a community around languages, I am bringing up the topic of why politicians change foreign...

  • Source: leximo.org (Company Blog)
  • Date: Apr 1, 2009
  • Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles
  • Comments: 0
0 Leximo Bought by Google for $16.5 Million in Stock

We have some great news for everyone.Leximo has been bought by Google!Okay to elaborate, we pitched Leximo to Google Ventures, which is Google's new...

  • Source: leximo.org (Company Blog)
  • Date: Apr 1, 2009
  • Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles
  • Comments: 0
0 Are you a spy? Learning languages via the media.

Are you a spy?Jokingly, people ask me this question when they hear me speaking in other languages. (I speak seven languages: Russian, English, French,...

  • Source: leximo.org (Company Blog)
  • Date: Mar 30, 2009
  • Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles
  • Comments: 0
0 Dictionary of American Regional English

We should all be tickled to learn that the Dictionary of American Regional English project has come to fruition with the publication of the final...

  • Source: leximo.org (Company Blog)
  • Date: Mar 26, 2009
  • Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles
  • Comments: 0
0 Why Johnny Still Can't Read

In 1955, the bombshell book Why Johnny Can’t Read disturbed a few nesting hornets. A half-century later, per-student education spending in...

  • Source: leximo.org (Company Blog)
  • Date: Mar 23, 2009
  • Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles
  • Comments: 0
0 An American back from Paris

My wife and I just returned from France.Don’t worry. I haven’t gone native. I’m not going to lecture you on the superiority of French culture. True,...

  • Source: leximo.org (Company Blog)
  • Date: Mar 17, 2009
  • Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles
  • Comments: 0
0 Verbing Weirds Language

A colleague recently made a startling announcement.He reported that on a short-hop flight, an attendant had apologized to her parched passengers...

  • Source: leximo.org (Company Blog)
  • Date: Mar 17, 2009
  • Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles
  • Comments: 0
0 Karaoke your way to a good accent

Yesterday, I was recording an interview for the New America Now radio show and the interviewer asked me a question about my book, Language is Music,...

  • Source: leximo.org (Company Blog)
  • Date: Mar 12, 2009
  • Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles
  • Comments: 0
0 Foreign Pet Names

Not only am I a language lover but I'm an animal lover as well.So thinking about languages and pets triggered a memory in me. About three years ago I...

  • Source: leximo.org (Company Blog)
  • Date: Mar 9, 2009
  • Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles
  • Comments: 0
0 Top 10 Endangered Languages in the World

Over at The Guardian, Peter K. Austin, a linguistics professor and author shares a personal selection of languages on the brink of disappearing from...

  • Source: leximo.org (Company Blog)
  • Date: Mar 6, 2009
  • Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles
  • Comments: 0
0 World's Hardest Languages to Learn

Have you ever wondered what the world's hardest languages to learn are?Well Leximo has been wondering so we decided to ask other language enthusiasts...

  • Source: leximo.org (Company Blog)
  • Date: Mar 2, 2009
  • Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles
  • Comments: 0
0 Which Language Should I Learn?

A guest post by Michael J. O'Neal, author of Crazy Bett, a historical novel published as an e-book by Smashwords.Here's a column I wrote for the local...

  • Source: leximo.org (Company Blog)
  • Date: Feb 24, 2009
  • Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles
  • Comments: 0
0 Lost in Translation - Language Translation Software

What occurs when an English phrase is translated (by computer) back and forth between 5 different languages?Translation software is nearly good...

  • Source: leximo.org (Company Blog)
  • Date: Feb 22, 2009
  • Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles
  • Comments: 0
0 LexiBlog Added to Alltop

We have some great news to announce.LexiBlog has officially been added to Alltop. What the heck is an Alltop you ask?Alltop is an online magazine rack...

  • Source: leximo.org (Company Blog)
  • Date: Feb 19, 2009
  • Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles
  • Comments: 0
0 Linguistic Documentaries

I've come across some cool linguistic documentaries that would be great for all language lovers out there.Speaking in Tongues "Alone among the...

  • Source: leximo.org (Company Blog)
  • Date: Feb 18, 2009
  • Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles
  • Comments: 0
0 How to Say 'I Love You' in 14 Different Languages

With today being Valentines Day, Leximo would like to share with you 14 ways to say 'I love you' in different languages.The English form of 'I love...

  • Source: leximo.org (Company Blog)
  • Date: Feb 14, 2009
  • Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles
  • Comments: 0
0 17,000+ Visitors for Leximo - Viva la Leximo

I've been receiving several questions about how successful the Leximo revolution has been so far. So I would like to share with our readers some of...

  • Source: leximo.org (Company Blog)
  • Date: Feb 10, 2009
  • Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles
  • Comments: 0
0 Leximo in the Daily Colonial

Leximo did an interview with The Daily Colonial Newspaper.“We’re not just building a dictionary. We’re building a community around it,” said Balina, a...

  • Source: leximo.org (Company Blog)
  • Date: Feb 10, 2009
  • Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles
  • Comments: 0
Weekly Newsletter

Signup for the VentureBeat Profiles newsletter to receive top news and hot new startups of the week.

Alexa Rank: n/a n/a
Yahoo Search Results: n/a  

There are no discussions right now.

Recent Contributors

There are no recent contributors to this company.