Supported Languages @LangoLAB

Hi everyone!

LangoLAB is happy to announce that we now support 43 languages at sign-up, and those same 43 languages for video captions. This means that our English video library is now accessible to far more people than before! Google Translate will be supplying the initial translations, as always, so please help us and your fellow learners by editing them!

Also, just a reminder: our video request feature is up and running, so if you see a video in the foreign language you're learning that you'd like to see up on the site, just request it and we'll get it captioned for you. Use or build your own playlists to get maximum exposure to thematically linked videos!

If you like these two features, or if you'd like to see something else up on LangoLAB, we're all ears. Please let us know by e-mailing us at feedback at langolab dot com.

-the LangoLAB team

New Features Coming Out on langoLAB

Hi, everyone! We're almost in our second month here at TechStars and are working like madmen to make langoLAB into something that will give you as much exposure to native speakers as possible on a webpage.

A lot of people who have sounded off lately have mentioned that they learned to speak a foreign language by immersing themselves in it by any means necessary. They listened to music, caught the news, watched movies... and interacted with people who speak that language on a daily basis as often as they could.

Now you'll be able to communicate with other users who speak the language you're studying on langolab.com. Here are some ways you can connect:

• Participate in the video request. Here's how it works: you're a native speaker of English studying German. You contact us with a video that you'd like captioned. We caption it for you. Soon we hope to have a video exchange where users are able to caption videos for each other!
  
• Make a playlist. You'll be able to link videos by subject, or grammar, or any other criteria you can think of. Help other people learn the language your learning with the videos that helped you most!

In other news, we've also organized our existing videos by difficulty level. Just look on the right side of the page at the beginner, basic, intermediate, and advanced links and choose your level. Beginners are just starting out learning a foreign language. Basic assumes that you can say hello, goodbye, please and thank you. Intermediate is when you can maintain a short conversation and get around, and advanced is near-fluency in a foreign language.

As always, if you have any feedback about the site, or would like to see something else we haven't thought of, send us an e-mail at cofounders at langolab dot com.