The Language Collaborative

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For Learners: Free audio language lessons on your smartphone.

For Language Professionals: A free open platform for Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL).




Update (2011.10.16):
We're happy to announce the release of a public beta version of our Language Mentor software. Intermediate-level Mandarin Chinese learning modules are currently available. To install, please visit our Download page. Note: This is an Android version of Language Mentor - an iPhone version will be released in early 2012.

About Language Mentor

It's really difficult to become truly fluent in a new language - so that you can understand the voices on the radio and carry on an intelligent conversation. This is especially true if you live a busy life and have limited opportunity to study and practice.

Our mission is to help with this problem. Language Mentor's audio-centric lessons allow you learn while your hands and eyes are busy doing other things. In other words, Language Mentor allows you to create study time where none existed before.

Curious? The best way to learn about Language Mentor is to watch this 6-minute video demonstration...



Language Mentor Demo
Problems viewing video? Try the YouTube or Tudou version.

More details about our "Language Mentor" software:

In a lot of ways Language Mentor simply takes a good idea -  traditional audio based language learning courses - and improves on them. Like currently available audio based courses, it allows you to listen to dialogues, practice speaking your target language, etc. In addition, it offers some important advantages:
  • Five different learning modes
  • Record/Playback for pronunciation practice
  • "I Know This" button allows users to concentrate on unlearned content
Language Mentor is an open platform:
  • Language professionals can create modules for any language and publish them to the world
  • Modules can be hosted anywhere on the Internet
  • Language Mentor is open source software

 

 

 
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You only need an account if you'd like to post to our forums, or if you're actively working with us on one of our projects.

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