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Re: CoffeeStrap HN

#11

Maybe I'll get lucky and there'll be some folks willing to teach me Danish. There are surprisingly few good options for learning it in the US. I like Duolingo's approach, but they don't have the languages I want available (except German). Edit: Bummer. No Danish. :(

Hi! We're testing it out on a small subset of languages. Being it a peer2peer marketplace tool, we don't plan to restrict the amount of languages that will be included. Going to notify you as soon as Danish will be up! :-)

Re: CoffeeStrap HN

#13

Maybe I'll get lucky and there'll be some folks willing to teach me Danish. There are surprisingly few good options for learning it in the US. I like Duolingo's approach, but they don't have the languages I want available (except German). Edit: Bummer. No Danish. :(

Hi! We're testing it out on a small subset of languages. Being it a peer2peer marketplace tool, we don't plan to restrict the amount of languages that will be included. Going to notify you as soon as Danish will be up! :-)

Kickass, thanks!

Re: CoffeeStrap HN

#14
So how are you going to succeed where Livemocha failed for instance ? To be frank , I liked Livemocha,too bad they couldnt monetize their application without selling out to someone that doesnt care about users.

Re: CoffeeStrap HN

#17
post #9

Are you planning to partner with other universities in Italy only or you want to spread this idea across europe either?

The Ca' Foscari one (university of Venice) was a pilot that we launched last week. The cool think about that is that we are able to automatically certify people that comes from Ca' Foscari. We are planning to have a 'karma' style reference that goes up based on languages certifications, institutions in which you studied and so on.

So definitely yes, we want to repeat that for other Institutions as well.

Re: CoffeeStrap HN

#18
post #14

So how are you going to succeed where Livemocha failed for instance ? To be frank , I liked Livemocha,too bad they couldnt monetize their application without selling out to someone that doesnt care about users.

I take it you mean Rosetta Stone? All emails I get now from Livemocha are pitching them. The thing is it actually works. Hell just from the demo CD years ago I can still say "The horse is white" in Welsh!

Re: CoffeeStrap HN

#19

Maybe I'll get lucky and there'll be some folks willing to teach me Danish. There are surprisingly few good options for learning it in the US. I like Duolingo's approach, but they don't have the languages I want available (except German). Edit: Bummer. No Danish. :(

Why on earth would you want to learn danish?

//Dane

Re: CoffeeStrap HN

#20
post #16

I think the HN-specific landing page is not as informative as the actual main page: http://boards.coffeestrap.com/#/welcome The HN-specific page reads like startup satire.

It's not, we're trying to put together people with different backgrounds, and different approaches to langauge. We started from the two context we were most familiar with. The line between what is satire and what is community culture may be kind of thin, especially for online communities such as HN. Don't you think? :-)
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