CROSSREF:ED Episode #02

Live Online Lessons and Mobile Apps? Learners are not Impressed

• recorded: April 10th 2012

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Show Notes

Some data first: in 2011 busuu conducted their survey amongst 16.000 of their users from 150 countries, in 2012 they asked 45.000 members coming from 230 countries. Multiple answers were possible in both surveys.Both studies vary only very slightly in their results why people learn a language and how much they spent on learning it (close to $1000 on average).Read More