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Brittany Jackson

Official Livemocha Press Releases | Livemocha Press - 0 views

  • Livemocha, the world’s largest online language learning service, today announced the Livemocha Scholarship Program, which offers free and discounted foreign language services to high schools and community colleges across the nation. Livemocha aspires to create a world in which every person is fluent in multiple languages and to help support this mission will donate approximately five million dollars of language learning to U.S. schools in 2012. Schools can now apply for the needs-based Livemocha 2012 Scholarship Program offering discounts and free language learning solutions.
  • In the United States today, less than 40% of high school students and 8% of college students are enrolled in the study of a foreign language. According to a recent survey on multilingual talent in the workplace, 33% of Fortune 500 companies will require knowledge of a foreign language in order to qualify for employment.
  • “It’s clear that the English-only mentality is no longer acceptable in light of our increasingly globalized world,” said Michael Schutzler, CEO of Livemocha
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  • Livemocha’s initiative is also dedicated to enhancing English as a second language (ESL) instruction for students in the process of learning English, or English Learners.
  • Livemocha is a company committed to helping every person on earth achieve fluency in a new language. As the world’s largest online language learning community, Livemocha fuses traditional learning methods with online practice, and interaction with native language speakers from around the world.
  • http://www.livemocha.com.
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    This is an interesting article and the other link I tried to send didn't get done properly. My apologies. But, it's about foreign language programs in schools and how livemocha hopes to financially assist schools. 
Sheri Brown

Why Spanish is the Most Romantic Language - 0 views

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    Spanish Language The term 'romanticism' paints the picture of a neoclassical era comprising mystery, attraction, eccentricity, melancholy, disheartening and of course an inexplicable happiness. For ages, romanticism has been defined or labeled with the expressions such as 'irrational', 'revolutionary', 'liberal' etc. depending on the era, country, region and culture.
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