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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 [...]
Babbel Vocabulary Trainer for Download
After featuring the new Babbel Apps for iPhone and iPod Touch yesterday, we’ll give you the lowdown on another new feature: Babbel Refresh. We at Babbel think that in order to make progress in learning, it’s important to stay present with the language. That means, instead of straining to slog through long lessons, it can [...]
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 [...]
Get Started with Spanish
Beginners in Spanish can finally say gracias. There is now a full, Online Course on Babbel.com that will teach you all the basics you need to get by anywhere in the Spanish-speaking world, from Barcelona to Santiago to downtown Los Angeles. Developed from proven print materials and adapted for the internet with Babbel.com’s consistent focus [...]
