This interview is part of our “On the Future of Education” series, interviewing bright, influential, and forward-thinking people working on the subject of education.

Since we started bab.la four years ago we have talked to many entrepreneurs in the educational field, seen many start-ups, evaluated a ton of ideas (and tried several of them), discussed various educational subjects with both traditional “offline” publishing houses and online companies. Education in the traditional sense (i.e. school, college camp; university) hasn’t really [...]

Manchmal dürfen ein paar wenige glückliche Economy Class Passagiere kurzfristig in der Business oder gar First Class fliegen. Um die Chancen zu erhöhen in den Genuss von richtig schön viel Platz, vernünftiger Bord-Verpflegung und einem entspannten Flug zu kommen, gibt es einige Tricks. 1. Gesunden Menschenverstand nutzen Das heißt: Immer schön freundlich sein, nicht um [...]

The Top 100 Language Lovers 2011 competition is over and the results can be viewed on the bab.la Language Portal If you are amongst the top 100 language lovers feel free to include the badge on your site. Instructions: Just copy the code below the badge and paste it on the part of your website [...]

UPDATE: Voting has ended. Results will be published June 1. Thank you for all the emails you sent and the comments you submitted to nominate your favorite blogs, Facebook pages and Twitter accounts. From the great amount of nominations we received (747 in total), we selected the top 100 (top 200 for language learning) for [...]

UPDATE: Voting has ended. Results will be published June 1. Here is the alphabetically sorted list of the top 200 Language Learning Blogs that qualified for the voting phase (read more about how the competition works). Click the button next to the name of the blog you want to vote for and click “vote” at [...]

UPDATE: Voting has ended. Results will be published June 1. Here is the alphabetically sorted list of the top 100 Language Facebook Pages that qualified for the voting phase (read more about how the competition works). Click the button next to the name of the Facebook Page you want to vote for and click “vote” [...]

UPDATE: Voting has ended. Results will be published June 1. Here is the alphabetically sorted list of the top 100 Language Twitterers that qualified for the voting phase (read more about how the competition works). Click the button next to the name of the Language Twitterer you want to vote for and click “vote” at [...]

Derzeit existieren ca. 6.900 Sprachen weltweit. Nur einige wenige werden von vielen Menschen gesprochen (es gibt insgesamt 13 Sprachen, die von mehr als 100 Mio. Menschen gesprochen werden), viele haben nur einige tausend bis zu einer Handvoll Muttersprachler. Die Auflistung der Sprachen an sich ist ja schon eine Herausforderung, dass man aber jede Sprache im [...]

If your blog is on the voting list for the IX11 competition you might want to add the voting button to your blog. Here’s the code: <a title=”Vote the best IX11 blog” href=”http://www.lexiophiles.com/english/voting-for-the-ix11-blog-competition-started”><img title=” Vote the best IX11 blog” src=”http://www.lexiophiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/ix11-button-vote-this-blog.gif” border=”0″ alt=” Vote the best IX11 blog” width=”160″ height=”60″ /></a> And it will look like [...]