bab.la forum reloaded: Beat the information rush

December 9th, 2011 — 3:13pm

We live in an era of information, it is everywhere, can be accessed from anywhere and can be needed at anytime. The exponential amount of information available has made it challenging to find the right piece of it. Where to look for it? How to look for it? Our language forum, that recently celebrated its [...]

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PROMT, SYSTRAN, GOOGLE, BING – Has the age of machine translation finally arrived?

October 31st, 2011 — 12:32pm

Checking what online machine translation service is best for you
Some claim that learning foreign languages is a waste of time, that translators are soon to disappear from the professional market and that technology can get you from language A to language B in no time, for free and without any trouble. Myth or reality? The [...]

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Velkommen, Danmark!

October 14th, 2011 — 11:10am

This week we had an anniversary: our 20th language has been launched! bab.la now (theoretically ) connects to 95 % of all online users in the world – wow! Our new language is Danish and we are more than happy to give you the chance to discover the language of the Scandinavian country. [...]

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Like, Me gusta, Gefällt mir, Mi piace: A cross-language comparison on the use of the Facebook Like button

September 8th, 2011 — 1:40pm

We all know what an integral part social media has become on the web. And the Like button is probably the most prominent example of how easy it is to “integrate” social media activities in your website. So after our last two introductory guides on online marketing (a Twitter guide and a Social Media Monitoring [...]

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Twitter Business Guide: Communication and Marketing

July 7th, 2011 — 2:39pm

Having an online presence has become indispensable in most, if not all industries. Since everyone seems to be connected, having an online presence is not enough and standing out from the crowd demands an extra effort. Your company and your products need to be seen and talked about. You cannot expect your clients to come [...]

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Regularly irregular – verb conjugation

June 24th, 2011 — 5:18pm

Yes, we know. Studying a language is already hard enough so why did people come up with irregular verbs? As if the conjugation of a verb and when to use which tense wouldn’t be hard enough already. Lucky you because we just made your life a little easier. We now include the conjugation for verbs [...]

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