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Vote for your favorite IX12 blog!

Jan 31st, 2012 | By Virginia | Category: English, Featured Articles, International Exchange/Experience Blogs

Give your vote to the most exciting, inspiring, open-minded blogger writing about his or her experience abroad. Voting will be open to anyone until February 12th!



Wording: How to find the word you’re missing

Jan 18th, 2012 | By Jean-Christophe | Category: Featured Articles

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!



On the Future of Education

Sep 29th, 2011 | By Andreas | Category: Featured Articles, On the Future 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 [...]



Top 100 Language Lovers Competition 2011 – The 53421 Final Recap

Jun 21st, 2011 | By Giulia | Category: Featured Articles, Language Lovers Toplist

Now that it has been a couple of weeks since we published the results of our competition, this is the perfect time to take stock of it. Hosting the competition has always been a great experience, but this year it was even more fun. We introduced quite a change, broadening the competition to Facebook pages [...]



Raiders of the Lost Rhyme

Jun 9th, 2011 | By Teresa | Category: Featured Articles

We are on a mission! Amazingly enough, there are many words that do not rhyme in English. “Orange” is one of those notorious words. Using our Facebook fan page, we started posting words that allegedly do not rhyme and, to our surprise, people came up with many words that rhymed. Check out our Facebook page [...]



Ce que les apprenants de français veulent entendre – les 100 mots français les plus écoutés

Sep 6th, 2010 | By Sarah | Category: Featured Articles, Français

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.



Was Deutsch-Lerner hören wollen – die 100 meistgehörten deutschen Wörter

Aug 18th, 2010 | By Andreas | Category: Deutsch, Featured Articles

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 [...]



What English learners want to hear – the top 100 most-listened to English words

Aug 5th, 2010 | By Andreas | Category: English, Featured Articles

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 [...]



Voted Hottest Summer Drinks

Aug 3rd, 2010 | By Christopher | Category: Featured Articles

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!



VOTE! For The Hottest Summer Drink 2010

Jul 23rd, 2010 | By Christopher | Category: Featured Articles

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