Essential Travel Vocabulary

Despite the recession people are still traveling abroad. For anyone who would like to learn the language of the country they are traveling to, or simply refresh their previous knowledge, the online language learning portal Babbel.com offers 21 related exercise packages. Whether hiring a car, arriving at a hotel, asking for directions or ordering in a restaurant, knowledge of the local language is always helpful. With these situations in mind, Babbel.com has developed themed online exercises. Understanding and being understood can certainly contribute to getting to know the country and its inhabitants better. There are exercises in the most important languages English, Spanish, French, Italian and German.

"Mini-Vocab Package" as a fast start into a language
The new "Mini-Vocabulary" offers basic words and phrases like "hello", "excuse me", or "my name is" that are truly essential for the spontaneous traveler. After this short exercise, even someone who has never been in the country or in contact with the language before does not have to stress in anticipation of the first encounter with the locals. Vocabulary packages are specially assembled together for Last Minute Travel and can be learned quickly the night before the flight.

Meet people from over 200 countries on Babbel.com
Those who have a little bit more time before their trip can meet and learn with members of the Babbel.com community from almost all countries in the world. Among the more than 350,000 users there is always someone from the travel destination who can help with learning and even offer insider travel tips.

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Backtground and news about Babbel at the Babbel Blog:
http://blog.babbel.com/.

About Babbel.com:
Babbel (www.babbel.com) offers the opportunity for anyone to learn languages for free online. Since January, 2008, around 350,000 users have registered. The company behind Babbel, Lesson Nine GmbH, is located in multi-cultural Berlin and was founded in 2007 by Lorenz Heine (36), Markus Witte (38), Toine Diepstraten (33) and Thomas Holl (34). Beforehand these four worked for the audio software company, Native Instruments, which Heine had co-founded. Babbel.com received an investment from Kizoo AG and VC Fonds Berlin in the summer of 2008. The Babbel Team consists currently of ten full-time employees and over ten freelancers.

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Markus Witte
press@babbel.com
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Lesson Nine GmbH
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10963 Berlin, Germany
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