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Our Beloved Competitors

Our Beloved Competitors

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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