Innovative Language Learning
Tokyo-based Innovative Language Learning, LLC is the parent company of Japanesepod101.com and SpanishPod101.com language course podcast, among others, and accompanying websites that offer lessons in learning.[1] The company was founded in March 2008, after launching JapanesePod101.com in 2005.
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[edit] Overview
Innovative Language Learning sites provide podcasts with accompanying text expansion exercises and other extensive tutoring aids available to paid subscribers or "premium subscribers". As part of an early wave of companies offering language instruction by podcast,[2] Innovative Language Learning launched JapanesePod101.com at the end of 2005. While Innovative Language Learning, LLC is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, the lessons are recorded at various locations throughout the world. For example, ArabicPod101.com lessons are recorded in Cairo, Egypt. Previous lessons were recorded in Casablanca, Morocco and South Carolina, USA. KoreanClass101.com lessons are recorded in Seoul, Korea, GermanPod101.com lessons in Berlin, and English Classes are recorded in New York, USA.
Innovative Language Learning operates 22 comprehensive language learning websites, and offers products in 36 languages.
[edit] Content
The daily podcasts range in difficulty from "Newbie" to "Upper Intermediate" level and have an average of ten to twenty minutes lesson time. Textual lesson notes are embedded in the text of the lessons so that they can be easily accessed, either from a portable audio device, or as lyrics files in a desktop audio player.[3] "Survival Phrases" focuses on essential travel phrases. iOS and Mac Desktop applications are provided in 36 languages.
[edit] Languages
The following languages are available as of November 2011:
| Survival Phrases
As of July 13, 2009 |
101 Sites
101 Site in addition to Survival Phrases |
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| Arabic (Modern Standard) | Arabic (Modern Standard) | |
| Bulgarian | ||
| Chinese ( Cantonese) | Chinese ( Cantonese) | |
| Chinese ( Mandarin) | Chinese ( Mandarin) | |
| Dutch | Dutch | |
| English | English | |
| French (Parisian) | French (Parisian) | |
| German | German | |
| Greek | Greek | |
| Hebrew | Hebrew | |
| Hindi | Hindi | |
| Hungarian | Hungarian | |
| Indonesian | Indonesian | |
| Italian | Italian | |
| Japanese | Japanese | |
| Korean | Korean | |
| Polish | Polish | |
| Portuguese (Brazil) | Portuguese (Brazil) | |
| Russian | Russian | |
| Spanish (Spain) | Spanish (Latin America) | |
| Swedish | Swedish | |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | ||
| Thai | Thai | |
| Vietnamese | ||
[edit] Other products
The daily podcasts range in difficulty from "Newbie" to "Upper Intermediate" level and have an average of ten to twenty minutes lesson time.[4][5][6] The first language service, JapanesePod101, has been noted in Newsweek.[7] Innovative Language Learning has one of the largest libraries of iPhone applications with over 350 applications.[8] The company also produces a website devoted to teaching useful phrases for travel situations at SurvivalPhrases.com. [9]
Innovative Language Learning also pioneered the emerging TV-as-app-platform space and produced language-instruction apps in over 35 languages as early as 2009.[10]
[edit] References
- ^ Frenette, Brad. "Around the world in 80 megabytes: Ipod as tour guide: The popularity of travel podcasts", National Post, 2006-05-13, p. WP14.
- ^ Moody, Glyn (2006-05-04). "Now you're speaking my language". Guardian News and Media Limited. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2006/may/04/newmedia.tefl. Retrieved 2012-02-14.
- ^ Caolo, Dave (2008-09-05). "Learn a language with the Finder's Desktop". AOL Inc.. http://www.tuaw.com/2008/09/05/learn-a-language-with-the-finders-desktop. Retrieved 2012-02-06.
- ^ Brekke, Laurie. "The language of survival: Learning the basics can enhance trip abroad", Omaha World-Herald, 2007-10-14, p. W2.
- ^ Roddy, Daniel. "PCs and pods", E.learning Age, June 2008, pp. 18–20.
- ^ Marx, W. David (2006-02-28). "To learn the Japanese language, get pod-agogical". The Japan Times. http://search.japantimes.co.jp/print/ek20060228a1.html. Retrieved 2008-07-29.
- ^ Stone, Brad (2006-08-24). "Learning a Language on Your iPod: How new podcasts like 'JapanesePod101' are changing the way people learn a foreign language.". Newsweek. Archived from the original on 2006-08-26. http://web.archive.org/web/20060826022346/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14500635/site/newsweek/. Retrieved 2008-07-29.
- ^ "iPhone apps for Thailand: a mixed bag". The Bangkok Post. 2009-06-05. http://www.bangkokpost.com/tech/technews/16231/iphone-apps-for-thailand-a-mixed-bag. Retrieved 2009-07-12.
- ^ Gross, Matt (2010-04-06). "Expensive Language Lessons? Doesn’t Translate". The New York Times. http://frugaltraveler.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/06/expensive-language-lessons-doesnt-translate. Retrieved 2012-02-04.
- ^ "Top 10 satellite TV apps". Wilkes Journal-Patriot. 2010-03-30. http://www.journalpatriot.com/online_features/hot_topics/article_fb839b78-3f94-55a5-b348-d98af4e36228.html. Retrieved 2012-02-18.
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