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Babbel Wins at eureleA 2011
The European Award for Technology Supported Learning (eureleA) is a prize awarded once a year for “outstanding examples of teaching and learning through digital media”. The jury had more than 70 submitted projects to choose from – and we’ve won. The eureleA prize for the “Best Technical Implementation” has gone to Babbel. Technical implementation doesn’t just refer to technology. Emphasis [...]
Germany’s Best iPhone App
We’re proud to announce that the magazine Mac Developer, INTERNET WORLD Business and iPhone & Co. have named the Babbel App as Germany’s best in the Business to Customer category! Lufthansa and Floop made the second and third positions. At last week’s iPhone Developer Conference in Cologne, a jury of four tech journalists was impressed [...]
Brad Pitt (as Lt. Aldo Raine) Scores 57 in Italian
After we released the new speech recognition feature yesterday and had all the good feeedback, we got into what you might call a funny mood. We ended up testing some celebrities with our new feature. It was loads of fun running Brad Pitt’s pronunciation through the tool to see what score he would have gotten [...]
Practice your Pronunciation: New Speech Recognition Tool
It’s called learning to “speak” a language, but the sad truth is, few self-directed learners get up the courage to actually open their mouths. Lack of speaking practice can lead to shying away from having interactions with real people, which certainly doesn’t help with the final goal of communication. The idea of our new integrated [...]
Revamped Italian Course on Babbel
Image by jonrawlinson With the release of new features last week you’re seeing a lot of new technology, but what about the actual language learning material, you ask? After developing some new grammar courses for German and French and adding two entire new languages (Brazilian Portuguese and Swedish) in March, we’ve now created our first [...]
Manage Your Babbel Vocabulary
One of the things that makes Babbel unique has always been its high degree of personalization: Babbel’s features keep track and tailor themselves to each learner’s individual progress. All the words and phrases you’ve ever studied on Babbel are added to your personal Vocabulary. Then, by encouraging you to review items at optimal intervals, a [...]
Learn a Language on your iPhone or iPod touch
Yesterday we released Babbel Mobile — iPhone Apps for seven languages. We’re happy to be receiving positive feedback from all over the world. In fact, in some countries, we’re already ranking in the top ten educational Apps in the App Store! The idea of Babbel Mobile is to allow you to study languages anywhere, anytime. [...]
Babbel Grows into a Comprehensive Language Learning System (Video)
We are excited to announce that with some new features and software clients, we have just made a leap toward becoming a language learning system unlike any other. Babbel has never been just a website, but was rather built as a server client application. It’s no wonder, then, that we’d develop new platforms. Our objective [...]
Babbel adds Swedish and Brazilian Portuguese
What do Brazil and Sweden have in common? We’ve figured out that Portuguese and Swedish are two of the foreign languages that learners worldwide are most longing to study. So, today, we are launching new, full Courses in Swedish and Brazilian Portuguese. This makes seven languages in all at Babbel. As promised, Babbel continues to [...]
New Funding for a New Babbel
Babbel is changing – for the better. With the just-announced funding of one million Euros from the EU’s European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the State of Berlin, we have plans to expand through 2011 in technology and content. This means new and improved vocabulary packages, Beginners’ Courses, grammar lessons and an even better learning [...]