August 2010
1 post
More Updates to French Lessons
We’ve just released a small update to our Grammar and Travel lessons. This is a small preview of what’s coming with the premium lessons.
July 2010
3 posts
Updates to Basic French Lessons
We’ve completely redone our Basic French Lessons. We’ve added over 10 new audio lesson and better organized the rest.
New Portuguese Lessons
We’ve been busy lately. We just updated and added 47 Portuguese lessons. These range from basic and grammar to travel. Most of them are free. However, if you’re serious about learning to speak Portuguese, buy some membership credits to get access to all of them.
Two New Websites
We launch two new websites this week for learning Spanish slang.
Porteño Spanish is to learn lunfardo, the slang of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It will have you yelling “che, boludo” in no time.
Güey Spanish is to learn to speak like a real Chilango from Mexico. You’re vocabulary will muy padre after checking out this site.
These are nice compliments to our site Voseo...
June 2010
4 posts
Lots of new iPhone-iPad apps and updated
We’ve been really busy. Today we released FOUR new iPhone and iPad apps and updated NINE others!
Here are the new apps:
Basic Spanish Vocabulary Audio Flash Card Lessons
Basic Italian Vocabulary Audio Flash Card Lessons
Travel Spanish Vocabulary Audio Flash Card Lessons
Advanced Spanish Vocabulary Audio Flash Card Lessons
Here are the updated ones now for iPad too:
Spanish Verb...
New Arabic vocabulary lessons and screen saver
We updated Online Arabic Help today adding nine vocabulary lessons and screen saver.
New Advanced Lessons
We’ve added new and updated lessons to our Advanced and Travel sections. We made a strong push for business lessons, but there are some funs ones in there too. Here’s the complete list:
Sports
Love and Romance
At the Office
Business
Business II
Banking and Finance
Work and Professions
Work and Professions II
Computers and Internet
School
...
Vocabulary and Phrase Screen Savers
We brought back by popular demand our Spanish, Italian, and French screen savers. We when took these down, we didn’t expect the outcry we got. We apologize for not bringing them back sooner.
With this, we’ve also released screen savers for German, Hebrew, and Portuguese. All screen savers include the 100 most popular words/phrases from our sites!
Spanish Screen Savers
French...
May 2010
8 posts
Travel Spanish Lessons Major Update!
This morning we released new Travel Spanish Lessons. This release also brings with it premium lessons. You can now exchange the membership points you earned for high-quality lessons.
The list of lessons includes:
Travel and Transportation
Directions
Going Shopping
Emergencies
Health and Medical
Let’s Go to the Beach
In the Kitchen
In the Bathroom
At the Post Office
We're hiring!
We’re looking for French, Portuguese, and Italian language specialists in Buenos Aires. If you fit the mould, go to our <a href=”http://www.onlinefrenchhelp.com/jobs”>jobs page</a> for more information.
Embed Our Lessons and Games on Your Website
Have you ever wished you could have a conjugation trainer, flash cards, or games like ours on your language learning website? Well, now you can.
That’s right. All of our language-learning activities are embeddable in any via the IFRAME tag. Click on the “embed” link below the activity to get the HTML code.
Hey, Twitter fans...
If you’re a Twitter user, check us out in the oneforty directory. Here are some links to the specific languages:
Spanish
French
Portuguese
Italian
Japanese
And the rest can be found on my developer profile on their site.
New Basic Spanish Lessons Released
We released new basic Spanish lessons this weekend! In total, there are 23 lessons, some brand new, other receiving an update. All of them have audio.
Here are some of my personal favorites:
Telling Time (Decir La Hora)
Describing People (Describir a la Gente)
Food (Comida)
We hope you enjoy these. Now I have to go back to work on the upcoming Travel lessons.
Reporting Inappropriate Questions
We had a problem this morning with a couple users asking offensive questions. We want to maintain an open community, but acknowledge that offensive language may interfere with the educational goals of the site. Rather than disallowing a arbitrary word list, we’ve created a method to allow the community to decide what is appropriate.
The report as inappropriate on the question screen...
Boycott Arizona
As an organization we have decided to support the boycott of Arizona. We feel it unfairly targets minorities, infringes on the universally recognized right of Freedom of Movement, and violates the US Constitutional. We ask that you as well cancel travel plans to Arizona this summer.
We are officially an LLC!
We just received the paperwork back today and are happy to announce we are officially (finally) in business as an LLC! To celebrate we are starting this company blog.