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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 [...]
Babbel investor Kizoo: “In business, at the end of the day, you have to trust each other”
Babbel Blog’s Interview with Frank Schüler und Matthias Hornberger of Kizoo, a Babbel investor. Schüler is Kizoo’s president and was managing director of subsidiaries of Web.de; Hornberger is Kizoo’s CFO and responsible for Finance, Controlling, Investor Relations & Corporate Affairs. (For the original German version click here) When did you first hear about the “internet”? [...]
Have the users think what you’re doing is great: Simon Murdoch on online services today
Babbel.com, our humble sponsor, recently acquired and joined forces with the online social networking site Friendsabroad.com. We caught up with Friendsabroad founder Simon Murdoch to talk a bit about this phenomenon of online language learning and the internet biz in the wake of the crunch. Babbel Blog: Please talk about Doyouspeak.com and Friendsabroad.com. What are [...]
Jason Lutes: “Making the leap from cold history to something that feels more alive”
The recently published “Berlin – City of Smoke”, playing in 1929/30, is the second book in an eventual graphic-novel triology. Its creator, Jason Lutes, talks about diving into German history without speaking German. You hadn’t been to Berlin before you started the comic – How did you make a picture for yourself? I did about [...]
“The words should roll out of the mouth” – On the dubbing of “The Wire” in German
For the original interview in German click here. Frank Schröder is one of the two authors of the German dubbing of the acclaimed television series “the Wire”. In an interview with Babbel Blog, he speaks about the difficulties of translating the dialogue-rich series, which portrays the day to day goings-on of the police and drug [...]
