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Xiha Life – The Social Network for Multilinguists
Xiha Life is around since 2008 already and has not only attracted a substantial seed funding of $1 million in January 2010 but also added Jyri Engeström who is a co-founder of Jaiku, a micro blogging platform similar to Twitter which … Continue reading
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Tagged facebook, multilinguist, social network, twitter, xiha life
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First Look At – WordSteps
WordSteps helps you to learn 20 foreign words in 15 minutes a day. At least that’s the promise of the Russian startup. The idea is that if you learn with WordSteps only three times a week for 15 minutes you … Continue reading
First Look at – Nixty
Apparently a new LMS / WLA called Nixty launched today. Nixty is aiming to empower education for everyone by offering simple to use tools for teachers to create multimedia enabled courses.
Hello-Hello launches free German and Italian Courses
Sarah Gontijo, Founder and CEO of Hello-Hello was so kind to provide me with some background information on her language learning community and the recent launch of two new courses for learners of German and Italian. Hence I think it’s … Continue reading
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Tagged actfl, hello-hello, ipad, language learning community
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LinguaTV relaunches with new Layout and Features
LinguaTV is a German start up that offers professionally produced language learning videos, as the tagline says “we watch languages”. I think this is a very interesting approach and the company already won a bunch of awards for its innovative … Continue reading
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Tagged lingua.tv, online language learning, video language lessons
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Two Social Services for Urban Expats who want to learn a Language
After learners have used the internet to connect with the whole world and searched for teachers on the opposite side of the globe it seems as if they found a new button on a camera and found out that there … Continue reading
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Tagged lingomatch, lingomatch.com, local, real conversations, real people, social commuting, submate, submate.com
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First Look at – RhinoSpike
RhinoSpike – Foreign Language Audio on Demand This new platform is targeting learners of a foreign language who would like to have customized mp3 with the content they want to listen to. From simple pronunciations for flashcards to short texts.
Three Services that make College Life easier
In this post I will take a look at three services that aim to make the life of college students easier. As students today are more and more connected and used to take decision on their own with the desire … Continue reading
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Tagged college application, delivery service, food2dorm, roommate, scholarship, uroomsurf, zinch
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First Look at – YongoPal
YongoPal – Make Money by Making a Difference! Sounds great, right? But what exactly is YongoPal? Apparently the site offers a service that connects Korean university students with native English speakers who will get paid for having a chat in … Continue reading
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Tagged conversation partner, efl, esl, language learning, yongopal
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udemy – Academy of You – new Platform launches with interesting Features
Earlier this week I had the chance to talk to Gagan Biyani, Co-Founder of udemy.com and he invited me for a tour. The project is an interesting mixture of different tools we already know from other platforms but it also … Continue reading
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Tagged academic earth, acedemy of you, sclipo, udemy, udemy.com, video lectures, wiziq
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