By: Dave
Ken, interesting post which voices some of the thoughts I have had over the last few months. Every few weeks or so another one of these sites pops out of the woodwork. Even New Oriental is now in on...
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Dave, Alexa rankings aren’t the most trustworthy. Either way we dropped the ‘www’ from our URL some months ago and sent us way down on Alexa. With 250,000 unique visitors per month, however, I think we...
View ArticleBy: Marc Anderson
Hello Ken, Great posting on “Skype, social networks and language learning.” I couldn’t agree with you more that in order to make any serious money on individual lessons over such a medium as Skype will...
View ArticleBy: Ken Carroll
Marc, Iteration is the cornerstone of any internet business. I think the genre will mature and we will see some great solutions over time. I wish you good luck. Ken Carroll
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Marc, Your site says TalktoCanada.com is THE leader in on-line English language instruction. Is this merely the marketing department talking (and boy do those guys like to talk!) or do you have a real,...
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Hello Michael, When I first made the statement “The leader in on-line English language instruction” it was meant to convey a sense of our company leading and innovating the way in which online English...
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Hey Mark, Two decades of teaching English has made me quite sensitive to the article “the”. A lifetime spent as a consumer has made leery of how it is used in business environments. IMHO I suggest you...
View ArticleBy: Ryan
I agree that these online language exchange/teaching networks are incomplete and don’t do a great job at teaching a language. I do, however, think that they are a wonderful language learning tool. I...
View ArticleBy: trevelyan
> (Content decisions are frequently coming > from software developers, rather than > teachers.) ” I think this is actually off-target. The problem isn’t a lack of pedagogical input into site...
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Hi Ken, My company, Live-English.net started in 2006 when there were only a few players on the market offering English lessons by Skype. Nowadays Skype is extremely reliable and for a lot of students,...
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Right now I with a team of developers make on a new project that will allow language learners to practice foreign languages throwgh video chat rigt on the site (it’s the concept of our site, to allow...
View ArticleBy: Benjamin Smith
Hi Ken. Since writing your article the market for online language learning has exploded. There are 100’s of Skype language schools now offering very similar services. What I have especially noted is...
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