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This new language app is like Netflix meets Masterclass, but for learning French

Fast Company Tech

This is the vision behind a new language learning platform that recently launched. Then, you dive into the story and language through an informal video lesson called After Short. And if you want to spend a lifetime learning a language, it has to be entertaining, or else you will throw in the towel. since then. since then.

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Lingoda, an on-demand online language school with live instructors and Zoom classrooms, raises $68M

TechCrunch

A startup out of Berlin that’s built and grown a successful online language learning platform based around live teachers and virtual classrooms is announcing some funding today to continue expanding its business. “We want the whole world to be learning languages,” Shangkuan said. “That is our vision.”

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Back to School: New Tech for the Classroom of the Future

Byte Technology

Featuring a wide field of view and highly intuitive head tracking, both connect to their respective devices and operating systems and, because they’re comfortable and light, are perfect in a classroom setting of antsy kids.

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EWA, which taps into popular media to teach languages, hits 51M downloads and 3.5M MAUs and raises its first outside funding

TechCrunch

Online language learning continues to be a huge opportunity for startups, with the most engaging experiences meeting a surge of interest from consumers looking for more productivity out of the hours that they spend on their smartphones. million monthly active users, and now it has raised $2.7 million in its first outside funding.

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Novakid’s investors bet $35M that it can teach kids English

TechCrunch

If you’re trying to develop fluency in a non-native tongue, language immersion is a crucial part of the learning process. The San Francisco-based edtech startup offers virtual-only, English language immersion for kids between the ages of four through 12, by combining a mix of different services from live tutors to gamification.

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Indian online teaching platform Teachmint raises $16.5 million

TechCrunch

. “When the pandemic broke, teachers were struggling with several tools including Google Meet, Zoom and even YouTube/Facebook Live to teach online. It was a difficult and disconnected experience for most teachers as none of these tools were productised for teaching.

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Tableau partners with the government of India to build students’ data skills

Tableau

or “How can I, as an educator, get better at Tableau to teach students?” With AICTE, Tableau has conducted virtual workshops to over 200 educators who will then enable their peers in the AICTE associated institutions to bring Tableau to the classrooms. “We Skill sets are changing across the globe to accommodate a data-driven world.

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