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Sunday was big day for all of us at Livemocha. Livemocha was covered in a major story in the New York Sunday edition along with ChinesePod, another excellent language learning solution. The story titled ????????Learning From a Native Speaker, Without Leaving Home was written by Anne Eisenberg who authors the well known Novelties column in the New York Times. This follows coverage 2 weeks earlier in the Wall Street Journal.

While it is great to get covered in these major publications, these stories are really indicative of the interest that the press has in the whole phenomena of globalization and the tremendous impact that it has on our lives. The fact that we have been able to quickly build up a user base of 200,000 users from over 200 countries demonstrates the tremendous need that people have to utilize foreign language learning to improve their lives. In many countries, people can literally double their income by learning English. What is also very interesting, I believe, to the press is the perfect confluence of this global need with the emerging phenomena of social networking allowing people all over the world to leverage their native languages proficiency to help each other. They are also excited by the possibility that social networking concepts can be applied to more productive” endeavors such as learning language as opposed to enabling people to engage in “food fights” on sites like Facebook.

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