Holl and Diepstraten were friends as students when they founded the music software company in 1996 ]. Two software developers, Thomas Holl and Toine Diepstraten, online marketing expert Markus Witte and software entrepreneur Lorenz Heine founded Lesson Nine in Berlin, Germany in August 2007. The viewing of profile data and communicating with people on Babbel is limited to Babbel users ]. Lesson Nine created this element to facilitate users partnering up for language exchanges, known by the German word "tandem," (exchange). Another feature of the website is the so-called "refresher tool" that keeps track of users' progress and tells them when they are due for review.ī takes after popular social-networking sites like Facebook and MySpace, and has users create profiles so as to communicate with others on the website, via private message or on the public "Board". With input and contributions from the users, these packages get consistently more comprehensive as more people contribute. The flash card stacks are organized into "packages" (groups of cards) that treat a common theme, such as youth hostels, winter sports, restaurants and eating out, fruits and vegetables, clothing, standard greetings, giving and receiving compliments, etc. The application lets users participate in learning packages through virtual flashcard software that includes user-contributed images. It is also associated with the English verb "to babble", which like the German verb, comes from the name of the biblical city of Babylon, the Tower of Babel and the legend of the confusion of languages.
The name for the company, "Babbel", is derived from the German Swabian dialect verb "babbeln," which means to speak casually and vividly. Babbel users upload photos that are used in lessons and rate photos contributed by other users to make sure the images correspond to the meanings attributed to them. The core content of the website is generated by an in-house staff, but this is augmented by user-contributed content and feedback. What differentiates Babbel from other online language learning applications is its collaborative approach to populating the vocabulary lists.
Originally created in response to a perceived lack of user-friendly language-learning software ], and modeled after a video game console ], Babbel incorporates images and spoken voices for an "intuitive" learning experience. The free-access website allows users to join and learn any of five languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish or German, and there are currently localized versions available in all of these languages except Italian.
The website is owned and operated by Lesson Nine, GmbH, a young company based in Berlin, Germany. I heared your track in YouTube and I liked it.Babbel is an online language learning application with social networking and wiki elements, launched in January, 2008. If what people made with a 303 named it ACID, then the music made by RD H30 should be called something like TNT, or “greek fire” (google this to get what I’m sayin’ ) And I really have been wondering so many years how come so many people have made so many emulators of the 303, after RD H3O! I mean RubberDuck should be a milestone in ACID emulators.Why no-one has ever come up with one -just ONE – RDH3O emulator all these years? In fact,it is not an emulator at all! It doesn’t even try to emulate a 303 or anything out there.Īnd YES,It is the sickest and most creative ACID machine that has come to my attention over the years, and I mean THE sickest! I regard it as a rival to TB303 and RB338 or “Rebirth”, with a more “acidier” sound.(they actually eat its dust). NO VeganPete, RubberDuck H30 (by d-lusion) IS NOT the most creative 303 emulator, because it is the worst TB-303 emulator. project_amateur 19 December 2019 at 20 h 22 min.