This would be great for learning a language or for kids who are just learning how to read.
"We see a lot of potential in mobile learning and believe that language learning should be optimized and offered on any mobile device, " says Markus Witte, managing director of Babbel.com.
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We were learning figurative language and looking up lyrics from music and they became totally interested in words.
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We were "learning the language with which God created life" and with this profound new knowledge "humankind would gain immense new power to heal".
Many fewer school students are learning the language than did so 10 years ago, meaning fewer have the slightest idea what Rammstein are on about.
The key, he says, is not just being in different cultures, but being open to immersion: learning the language, adapting to an alternate way of life.
Critics deplored newspaper tabloids, which catered to first-generation immigrants learning the language and time-pressed laborers grabbing a few minutes to read lurid headlines on the train.
More than 60 years after independence, English has become a passport to upward mobility in the wildly aspirational former colony, and more Indians are learning the language than ever before.
I'm really interested in learning the language and it's good to see articles now being written in Manx in the local newspapers - not that I can understand more than a few words.
For a Finn to work in Spain or a Greek in Denmark involves not just a willingness to move to the other side of Europe but a serious amount of investment in learning another language.
One school had a Spanish national on the staff and another teacher with a degree in Spanish - and every other member of staff had volunteered to devote one evening a week to learning the language.
The scheme for children from nursery age upwards will follow the model established on that scheme of having all the teachers and assistants in the schools involved learning the language to be taught, rather than bringing in specialist teachers.
If I'm Luis Suarez sitting at home with my wife and family, who absolutely love it here -- they love life in Liverpool and learning the language -- it's arguable he will never have a better season than he has had this.
The Berlin-based startup's high quality app is the first educational application with both comprehensive and affordable learning material for iPad users that facilitates entertaining and multi-media language learning any time, any place.
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Most youngsters are excited and motivated, rather than fearful, about learning a new language.
Ofsted chief inspector Christine Gilbert said young people could gain tremendously from learning an additional language.
Linguistics powerhouse Rosetta Stone announced it has acquired Livemocha, an online language learning network with international reach.
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The value of learning any particular language is increased by the number of people who already speak it.
The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.
Jonathan Brown, 50, of Furzton spent 12 years learning the fictional language of the alien race from Star Trek films.
If you want a job in media, technology or a related field, make learning basic computer language your goal this summer.
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The students are participating in an annual culture and language learning trip to China through the University of Maryland's Confucius Institute.
The ending of compulsory language learning after the age of 14 in 2004 brought England into line with Scotland and Wales.
Then I set my sights on a doubling our revenues and capturing much more of the language learning and edutainment market.
In four of the schools covered, more than half the pupils at ages 14 to 16 had stopped learning a foreign language.
Currently 1% of young Scots are learning the Celtic language of their country, compared to 7% in Ireland and 21% in Wales.
Michael Schutzler is CEO of Livemocha, an online language learning site.
Creating software that can write long-form narratives is very difficult, full of all sorts of interesting artificial intelligence, machine learning and natural language problems.
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Cyr, 26, who attended the February workshop to scope out the possibility of developing a language learning app for the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska.
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