Archive for August, 2008

Design Refresh

Posted by jason on 26 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: Community, Company News

Hello Livemocha Community!
My name is Jason, and I’m currently leading the user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) initiatives for Livemocha. Over the past few weeks, we have been working diligently on a number of new features we’ll be introducing shortly, and those features have driven the need to refresh the design and layout for [...]

Flashcards – Add Images and Audio

Posted by jimmy on 22 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: Internet learning, New and Fixed

Hello fellow Mocha lovers,
We’ve recently added new media capabilities to Flashcards. You can now now add images and record audio for each flashcard you create. Additionally, when saving flashcards from the Learn section of lesson, the image and audio of each term you save is automatically added to each card.
To add an image when creating [...]

汉语为母语的会员朋友们 (For our Mandarin-speaking Members)

Posted by Clint on 20 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: Community

For our Mandarin-speaking Members:
Could you respond to a quick survey about Livemocha? Only 5 questions! We would really appreciate your feedback. Thanks!
汉语为母语的会员朋友们:
请占用您几分钟时间做一份Livemocha的快速调查,该调查问卷只有5道题,我们对您的反馈表示无限感激。谢谢!
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=_2fKoOFdQjuVheSTWeBl8Ykw_3d_3d

Completed exercises as incomplete

Posted by olga on 19 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: Known Issues

A bug was recently introduced that will show completed exercises as incomplete.
This will cause your progress to incorrectly display as being lower than your actual progress percentage.
We’re sorry for any inconvenience this poses, but rest assured your progress is not lost.
You can fix this by redoing an exercise you’ve already done, such as the Learn [...]

Train for Olympics with Flashcards

Posted by olga on 12 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: Resources

Check out Olympic Flashcards to help you with your vocabulary and familiarize with Olympic terminology in the language you are learning.
They are currently featured in the Flashcard, under Practice tab. Also you can search for them typing the keyword olympics.

If you are a language teacher or tutor, I want to hear from you…

Posted by Clint on 07 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: Community, Internet learning

If you are using Livemocha to teach students a new language, either in a formal school or in a tutor format, we’d like to hear from you!
If you have an idea for a new feature, we are all ears.
If you have a story to share about your satisfaction with Livemocha as a teaching aid, we’d [...]

How can we improve Chat?

Posted by Clint on 07 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: Community

I’d like to solicit comments on how we can improve our Chat feature. We want to make our Chat capabilities as good as they can be! Problems, suggestions, wild ideas… we want to hear them all! Leave your comments and we’ll check them each day. Thanks for your help!!

Popular Flashcards this week

Posted by olga on 04 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: Internet learning, Resources

Practicing new vocabulary has never been easier. With Livemocha’s Flashcards feature you can flip through community-created sets of words and phrases. After you review a set, take the quiz and test your skills. Here are some of this week’s most popular sets:
English for Spanish Speakers
English for Mandarin Speakers
English for Portuguese [...]

Flashcard Quizzes

Posted by jimmy on 01 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: Internet learning

We are pleased to announce a new feature on Livemocha: Flashcard Quizzes. These are fun, multiple choice quizzes based off the Flashcard Sets created on our site. Every set that you create automatically becomes a quiz when you have 4 or more cards in your set. You earn points for each question you answer, which [...]