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We have ways of making you talk

press release
Background: German firm Babbel.com has just bought out British FriendsAbroad.com - but Brit owned Learnitlists.com is there to make you learn using the methods of the ad industry.
English speakers don’t exactly have the best reputation for speaking a second language. Those that do are the exception, rather than the rule. But, now is […]

Learning gets clever

Welcome to Learnit!  Do you want to get better at a foreign language? We can help. We’ll give you 10 words a day to learn.  You’ll see them around the Internet. We’re on Facebook and Twitter. We’ll send you a daily email, too. You will see your words on many sites. Any publisher can […]

What new features do you want next? (2)

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We thought it was time we looked again at this fundamental question.  Over the past 9 months we have developed the widget, guided by the requests of our members, and the limits of our own resources.
We have added:

‘listen’ word recordings (provided both free - user […]

Berlin on a bootstrap - the web 2.0 expo

Right now I’m sitting listening to Tim O’Reilly talk about the effects of the economic downturn on web 2.0 startups such as our own.  A strange situation seeing as the conference seems to have gatecrashed the Community Room - provided, I thought, so that we could get on with a bit of work while attending […]

Free daily emails to help you learn a language

Today we started sending content to our members directly - we have always advocated providing our content in as many different environments as possible - and words by email is a logical extension of our service, like the words by SMS premium service.
Learnitlists.com is certainly not a destination site. We expect our members to see […]

Learnit words by SMS

There really is no escaping Learnit once you’ve committed to learning a new language.
The next trick we are going to pull from our sleeve is a daily SMS service - so you can get to your daily words when you’re not at your computer, or without mobile WIFI (this scenario may be tough for some […]

Be the first print media in the world to have a web 2.0 widget

Newspaper Editors: Do you want your publication to be the first ever
to contain a Web 2.0 widget? We seek print media partners to publish
Learnit offline, supported by significant PR.  For further info,
please contact us: info@learnitlists.com or visit
www.learnitlists.com.

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Ich bin ein Berliner

This quote from Kennedy clearly shows two things. Firstly that it is dangerous to use a direct translation without checking this with a native speaker, and secondly, when you make mistakes while speaking in a second language, native speakers don’t really mind. We like the fact that others are trying to communicate in our language. […]

Danish added to the Learnit widget

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Hello Denmark!

Today we are having a peak from Denmark. It’s really interesting, and somewhat perplexing, to see a sudden rush from a specific geographical location. We may be global society, but we still move in tribes.

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