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E-Learning App Babbel Closes $10 Million Series B Round
Online language-learning service Babbel has just closed a $10 million Series B funding round, the company announced Tuesday. The Berlin-based education startup targets language learners with gaming techniques and has thrived in the Germany where there is a high demand for language education. Babbel has 15 million users, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel who gave the Polish lessons a spin on a Windows 8 tablet at an awards ceremony in March.
more...Language Startup Babbel Closes $10M Series B Funding To Expand Globally, Build Team
Things are moving fast in the world of Babbel, the language learning startup out of Germany which has been scaling its international presence since we first started covering them back in 2009. Today Babbel is announcing a $10 million Series B funding round led by Reed Elsevier Ventures.
more...Money talks: Language-learning startup Babbel acquires & shutters PlaySay as it eyes US and mobile growth
In a move to grow its presence in the global mobile education space, Germany-based language-learning startup Babbel has acquired San Francisco-based social language-learning iOS app PlaySay. As part of the deal, PlaySay will also be pulled from the App Store 45 days from today and it won't be incorporated into Babbel, with users being directed to Babbel's website.
more...Babbel brings 11 language learning apps to Windows Phone 8, for free
Yours truly has had some pretty positive experiences with Babbel's existing product line, with the latest being a subscription-based alternative for iPad that makes it a lot more affordable to learn the basics of 11 different tongues. After launching last October on Windows 8, the outfit is showing Microsoft's other major OS a bit of love today.
For those who've yet to give it a whirl, Babbel uses a mix of repetition, visual cues, spelling exercises and voice recognition, and it does a pretty stellar job of segmenting things into digestible lessons for those who only have five or ten minutes at a time to spare.
more...Babbel Erfahrungen – Die beste Plattform zum Sprachenlernen?
Ich selbst habe Babbel.com mehrfach getestet, wobei ich das vor allem für SLweb gemacht habe, damit ich meine Leser informieren kann. Da ich in einem Land lebe, wo meine Zielsprache gesprochen wird, habe ich hier 24 Stunden am Tag einen Sprachkurs. Ein Onlinekurs ist so also nicht nötig. Überzeugt hat mich Babbel aber dennoch immer.
more...babbel.com: Aprende inglés desde tu dispositivo Android
Babbel ha lanzado sus servicios para dispositivos Android, esta aplicación te brinda la opción de aprender vocabulario y frases simples en inglés. La herramienta es un complemento muy bueno a tus clases de inglés, gracias a babbel.com podrás incrementar tu vocabulario de forma notable y agregar frases armadas que son muy utilizadas en los principales países de habla inglesa.
more...Vier Berliner wollen den Sprachkurs neu erfinden
Der Schlüssel zum Erfolg ist für Witte die Motivation. Und um diese aufrecht zu erhalten, macht "babbel.com" es dem Lernwilligen einfach. Geht man auf die Website oder auf die mobile App für Smartphone und Tablet von "babbel.com", braucht es lediglich zwei Klicks, um die ersten fremdsprachlichen Worte zu lernen. "Die Schwelle online zu gehen, liegt bei null, absolut null", sagt Witte stolz.
more...Babbel.com lancia le sue app su iPad
Babbel.com, il popolare sito multimediale per lo studio delle lingue, mette ora a disposizione su iPad gran parte della propria offerta didattica online. La startup berlinese presenta una nuova App di ottima qualità, la prima app educativa con materiale didattico tanto esteso quanto accessibile, un ottimo strumento per imparare le lingue, disponibile ora per tutti gli utenti di iPad, dovunque essi siano.
more...Speaking the Language of Success: Babbel Celebrates Fifth Birthday
Learning a new language from scratch is never easy – as this writer can testify. In recent years, however, a host of new tools to make the process easier have come onto the market, and one of the most successful is Babbel, which is celebrating its fifth birthday today.
more...Quatre applis pour se remettre à l'anglais
Cette méthode conçue par une jeune entreprise berlinoise compte déjà plus de 5 millions d'émules. L'appli, gratuite, permet d'enrichir son vocabulaire de 3 000 mots, classés par thèmes et par difficultés.
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