About Us
Babbel is a comprehensive system for learning languages. Offering fun, multi-media methods and the opportunity to exchange with a community, Babbel has been online since 2008 and boasts over four million users on the web and on mobile devices.
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Lesson Nine GmbH is the company behind Babbel.com.
Lesson Nine GmbH
- Founded in 2007 by Lorenz Heine, Markus Witte, Toine Diepstraten and Thomas Holl
- Located in Berlin, in the multicultural neighborhood of Kreuzberg
- Made up of more than 90 full-time and freelance employees
- Received funding in 2008 from Kizoo AG and VC-Fonds Berlin
- Additional funding of almost 1 million Euros from the EU's European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the State of Berlin in 2009
Babbel.com
- Has been online since January 15th, 2008
- Has registered over 2,000,000 online users from more than 200 countries
- Babbel Mobile is also available on iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod touch) and has been downloaded more than 2,000,000 times on these devices
- Offers vocabulary packages, complete online courses, writing exercises, speech recognition and community features
- As of 2012, you can learn eleven languages: French, Spanish, Italian, German, Swedish, Brazilian Portuguese, English, Dutch, Polish, Indonesian and Turkish.
- Translations available in French, Spanish, Italian, German, Swedish, Brazilian Portuguese, English - making a total of 70 language combinations (learning language and reference language)
- Rich Internet Application (RIA) that allows for high interactivity without having to install anything
