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Todo empezó con Edith Piaf: Making Of de “Aprender alemán cantando”
Este post en: Alemán (Deutsch), Inglés (English), Francés (Français), Italiano Katja Wilde, Content Project Manager de Babbel, tiene una visión. Recordando las clases de francés del colegio, de pie en la cocina de su casa, canta con voz fuerte “Non, rien de rien”. En vista de la gran pasión con que lo hace, es absolutamente [...]
Babbel – zwei Jahre nach 2.0
Vor zwei Jahren haben wir Babbel 2.0 herausgebracht und damit eine grundlegend neue Richtung eingeschlagen: Statt Babbel zu einer größtenteils werbefinanzierten Plattform mit ein paar kostenpflichtigen Zusatzprodukten auszubauen, haben wir beschlossen, ein qualitativ hochwertiges Lernportal zu entwickeln, das sich grundsätzlich durch die Gebühren seiner Nutzer finanziert und somit komplett werbefrei ist. Die Gründe für diese [...]
Learning with Babbel: Interview with Miriam Plieninger
Miriam Plieninger is the Head of Content Production at Babbel. Over the years she’s edited courses and taught languages in classrooms in Germany and the UK. German is her mother tongue, but she also speaks English, French, Norwegian and Latin, not to mention the languages she’s learned at Babbel: Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese and — as [...]
Tech Background: Babbel Speech Recognition
Interview with Technical Director Thomas Holl Speech recognition is the exciting new feature at Babbel. It’s not only fun – it’s also amazingly efficient for learning a new language. But how does it work? I got the low down from our Technical Director Thomas. Crisi: What does the new speech recognition tool do? Thomas: [...]
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 7.7%, and French speakers fourth with only 4.6%. German is in seventh place with 4.1%. The English-language-dominated world of micro-blogging alone currently has about six million users worldwide, but only [...]
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 the Babbel online language learning platform itself. You will find ideas and tidbits from Babbel’s creators, news about — and stories from — Babbel users, and [...]
“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 designing E-Learning games for children from other cultural backgrounds. His MILLEE (Mobile and Immersive Learning for Literacy in Emerging Economies) project was funded by the National Science Foundation and has won several awards, including one [...]
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 number of destinations, mostly in France, but also to other places around the world, such as tours to Istanbul or the Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe. The number [...]
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 premiered on Monday, Feb. 9th. His genre, if it can even be classified as such, has been coined as “mumblecore”. But as a talk with him made clear, in his work and in [...]
Inside Babbel.com: Curiosity is Key
The Babbel Blog team took a short trip on the UBahn over to the Berlin office of Babbel.com, the interactive language-learning platform, to speak with Ulrike Kerbstadt (right) and Sylvie Roche (left). They are Just two of the folks responsible for the learning content at the website. Click here to listen to the interview that [...]