I'm fortunate to have personally met many of our competitors and truly cherish my relationship with each. The minute any of us are taking away another's market share is the minute that we can celebrate such success together - seriously.
The $80B+ language learning market is so fragmented and bound for disruption by one/many of us - Rosetta Stone's market cap is only $210M. In this post we hope to help out incumbants into our market by outlining the competitive landscape most relevant to us.
Presenting PlaySay's Language Learning Guide
It's an awesome interactive overview which even recommends the best solution (PlaySay excluded) for you!
Here's a non-interactive list-up with my one-liner for each:
Rosetta Stone - natural progressive immersion through picture-matching and pronunciation feedback
Livemocha - vocabulary flashcards with practice thereof through a social network
Busuu - vocabulary flashcards with practice thereof through a social network
Verbling - video chat exchange
Colingo - video chat exchange
Duolingo - crowdsourced text translation with built-in language learning
Pimsleur - full audio immersion
Kantoo - text message vocabulary flashcards
Appocado - phrase training through progressive phrase translation
Voxy - vocabulary flashcards contextualized from/in popular media articles and real-world locations
MindSnacks - vocabulary flashcards wrapped into fun touch-based games
TripLingo - vocabulary flashcards contextualized through culture and organized for travel reference
Nulu - vocabulary flashcards contextualized from/in popular media articles
Declan Software - vocabulary flashcards
Transparent Language - vocabulary flashcards
Mode of Expression - vocabulary flashcards
Topics Entertainment - vocabulary flashcards and picture-matching
Babbel - adaptive learning platform with vocabulary and phrase matching exercises and automated pronunciation feedback
iKnow! - adaptive learning platform with vocabulary and phrase matching exercises and self-pronunciation-comparison
Mango Languages - conversation training contextualized through culture with self-pronunciation-comparison
English Central - phrase training contextualized through videos with automated pronunciation feedback
Fluenz - natural progressive immersion through vocabulary picture matching exercises and automated pronunciation feedback
Tell Me More - natural progressive immersion through vocabulary and phrase matching exercises and automated pronunciation feedback
Innovative Language Learning - vocabulary and phrase matching exercises contextualized through audio conversations and self-pronunciation-comparison
Rocket Languages - vocabulary and phrase matching exercises with self-pronunciation-comparison
Living Language - vocabulary and phrase matching exercises with audio
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