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Hello-Hello Pioneers Mobile Language Learning on the iPad

Friday, June 4th, 2010

Hello-Hello Launches Courses for French, German, Italian and Portuguese on the iPad

Hello-Hello, an innovative language learning company, today announced the launch of the world’s first complete language courses for French, German, Italian and Portuguese on today’s most desired gizmo – the Apple iPad. Hello-Hello developed these courses in collaboration with the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Language (ACTFL) and has attractively priced these complete sets of 30 conversational lessons at $9.99 each.

With the release of Hello-Hello French, Hello-Hello German, Hello-Hello Italian and Hello-Hello n Portuguese language learning apps, along with the Spanish app that was released in April as part of the Grand Opening of the iPad App Store, Hello-Hello has established itself as the market leader in mobile language learning. Hello-Hello Spanish was featured as one of the Apple’s staff favorites and achieved the #2 position in the Education category shortly after the launch of the iPad.

The Hello-Hello language learning courses are based on an innovative learning approach powered by iPad’s unique interface that gives freedom to the user to access lessons anywhere, anytime. Hello-Hello language Apps stores the entire course content locally on the iPad device itself and requires no network connection (such as Wi-Fi or 3G) to work providing speedy response time and easy access to learning on this device. The courses follow ACTFL’s research-based methodology to teach languages; each language course includes 30 conversational lessons based on realistic situations and are supplemented with hundreds of flashcards containing words and sentences for vocabulary building.

Sarah Gontijo, CEO & Founder of Hello-Hello said, “Our company is proud to establish our position as the market leader in mobile language learning. Bringing content to this revolutionary new platform makes it more accessible, more convenient and fun for early adopters of the iPad to learn a new language.”

Hello-Hello also offers a free language learning website (www.hello-hello.com) combined with social networking where members can:

(1) Learn a new language with complete online courses that develop all the skills they need;

(2) Teach other members their language by providing feedback on their exercises and learn from native speakers by submitting exercises for them to review;

(3) Communicate with native speakers through audio, video and text Chat to practice the language and make friends all over the world!

The website was launched in August 2009 and today has a worldwide membership base which spans over more than 70 countries.

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Hello-Hello Launches New Online Courses for German and Italian

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010

New Courses Will Open New Opportunities for Learners to Connect With German and Italian Native Speakers Around the World

Hello-Hello, an innovative language learning company, today announced the global launch of its online German and Italian language courses. The Hello-Hello courses were developed in collaboration with The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), which is the largest association of teachers and administrators of all languages at all levels, serving more than 12,000 educators.Hello-Hello has made both the German and Italian language programs available for free to every user similar to the other language courses already available on its official website at www.hello-hello.com. The two new language programs follow ACTFL’s research-based approach to teaching languages; each course includes 30 conversational lessons based on realistic situations and these lessons are supplemented with more than 1,000 flashcards containing words and sentences for practice. Users will join a community of like-minded individuals who help one another during the learning process and have the opportunity to make friends around the world.

According to Hello-Hello’s CEO & Founder, Sarah Gontijo, “Hello-Hello’s German and Italian language programs allow language learners to improve their language skills by interacting with native speakers around the world.

The Hello-Hello language courses offer an easy way for users to learn a new language anytime and anywhere including:

(1) tourists eager to learn the language of the country that they wish to visit,
(2) executives who desire to improve their skills for stronger career prospects, and
(3) teachers wishing to give their students extra practice and the opportunity to connect with native speakers.
Hello-Hello’s website (www.hello-hello.com) was launched in August 2009 and today has worldwide membership base which spans over 70 countries. Recently, the company successfully launched its Spanish course for the iPad, which has become a major hit among iPad users. Hello-Hello Spanish for the iPad was launched as part of Apple’s Grand Opening for the iPad. The Hello-Hello iPad app was featured by Apple as one of their Staff Favorites; the app achieved the #2 position in the Education category shortly after the release of the iPad. Hello-Hello will be launching iPad apps for other languages in the near future.