Company & Team
LangLearner is a group of client- and people-oriented technologists who speak the language of the clients and understand the end-user needs. We are an innovative technology solution and professional services provider specializing the education and training and public sectors. We have extensive experience building complex solutions for e-learning, Content Management Solution and leading-edge technologies for wide range of clients from fortune 500 corporations to nonprofit organizations.
The company is led by well-rounded leaders in technology, creative media, education, innovation and social enterprise with alumni from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, faculty of School of Creative Media and former management executives and professionals of large media companies and technology corporations.
Technology & Services
LangLearner is the inventor and developer of state-of-the-art and complex language learning, speech recognition, text-to-speech and translation technologies for the web and mobile platform. Our technologies enable some of diverse applications and tools for rapid and effective travel language guides and learning tools. We serve as the technology solution partner for educators and institutions.
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LangLearner Products
One of LangLearner’s mission is to make it easier for the world to communicate across languages and cultures. We do this by using technology to create web, mobile, and social solutions that facilitate learning and translating languages. Our creative technologies are designed to adapt to the user, and how they learn. Through these innovations, we are revolutionizing the way the world learns and uses languages.
Method
Until recently, the fundamentals of learning a language revolved around a concrete foundation of grammar. Language instruction was based on teaching the complex concepts of sentence construction, singular and plural forms, gender agreements, verb conjugation, and tenses. However, recent linguistic research has indicated that building an extensive vocabulary first is more effective in creating a strong foundation for a language.
Consider how you learned English as a child. Before constructing sentences with subjects, verbs, adjectives with appropriate agreements and conjugations, you simply reached for the juice cup and exclaimed, “juice!” Your mother may have corrected you, prompting you to complete the sentence, “May I have some juice?”
At this point, you either repeated her words verbatim or missed a few sounds somewhere within the sentence. You learned “juice” before learning “have juice” or “I have some juice”. Learning important words first can significantly improve your focus when graduating to more complex material, as you are already confident in understanding the central focus of the phrase. In addition, not knowing the word for something in your new language will render your ability to create the appropriate “surrounding phrase” useless. For example, if you need to buy some ice, but you don’t know how to say ice, knowing the words for “I need to buy some…” will not get you very far.
LangLearner offers over 3,000 words and phrases in flashcard form, allowing users to see an appropriate image, hear the word in both native and target languages, and see the word in both languages. Practicing words as flashcards will build this vocabulary, and many of the words you’ll learn with LangLearner are also presented within relevant phrase flashcards. LangLearner provides the strong foundation of vocabulary that is necessary for the ongoing journey of becoming fluent in a new language.
