Livemocha raises $6M for language learning
Livemocha is a Seattle, Wash. company that offers online instructional content for language education, helping learners of English, Spanish, Mandarin, French, Hindi, and German.
The site, which launched in September 2007, operates as an online community, where native speakers of different languages can converse to become better. Standard learning tools are also provided.
Maveron LLC led the $6 million funding, the company’s first.
LiveMocha uses social networks to teach you languages online
Hearing about new social networks usually makes us cringe. Surely by now, all relevant communities of people have a place to share ideas, photos and blogs.
But at this years DEMOFall, Seattle’s LiveMocha launches with a interesting twist. The company mainly focuses on teaching you a new language using the do-it-yourself immersion methods of the popular Rosetta Stone software, but it has blended in a social network to enrich the experience.
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