After the great success of the last five editions of our Top 100 Language Blogs competition, we are announcing the start of this year’s contest with the passion for languages being the protagonist: the Top 100 Language Lovers 2013 competition. The nominations for the Top 100 Language Lovers 2013 competition are open until May 20th, 23:59 pm German time. Nominate your favorite blogs, Facebook Pages and Twitter accounts.

The bab.la language portal and the Lexiophiles blog are pleased to announce the start of the Top 100 Language Lovers 2013 competition. Due to the success of last year’s competitions (read more about why we started the competition here), we again nominate in four categories: Language Learning Blogs: blogs about the language learning process, both [...]

We would like to thank all the people who participated in the ‘Top 100 International Exchange and Experience Blogs 2013’. Thank you for nominating over 200 blogs and giving thousands of votes to your favorites. Above all, thanks to the great bloggers out there who share their joys, adventures, challenges and experiences with family, friends and the rest of the world.

Isn’t it rewarding to master a foreign language? So many years spent reading grammar or learning vocabulary and finally you are there! or almost? It’s time to put an end to the age of doubts; here comes the era of certainties and bab.la is ready for it!

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 [...]

Comme nous l’avons fait pour l’anglais et l’allemand, nous avons réalisé quelques statistiques concernant le top 100 des mots que les apprenants de français souhaitent écouter.

Nach unserer Auswertung zu den 100 meistgehörten englischen Wörtern haben wir nun auch eine Auswertung der Top 100 deutschen Wörter zusammengestellt. Sie basiert auf Daten von 1 Millionen Klicks auf die deutsche Aussprache in unseren bab.la Wörterbüchern. Dank Christopher gibt es auch wieder eine schöne Grafik. Uns sind einige interessante Fakten aufgefallen: – Die top [...]

Sometimes our work lets us take a look at some interesting statistics. Last week we evaluated which English words were listened to the most in our bab.la dictionaries by using the pronunciation function. We looked at the last 3 million clicks which should give us a fairly objective result. While looking at the results we [...]

The results of our poll are in, and here is the list with the most popular and therefore Hottest Summer Drinks 2010 as submitted and voted by Lexiophiles readers and bab.la dictionary users!

As always, gathering submissions and looking at blogs was great fun and an amazing learning experience. Submissions are in! Time to Vote!