Comments on: A Real Time Free Vs Fee Example: Rosetta Stone vs. LiveMocha http://abovethecrowd.com/2009/08/20/a-real-time-free-vs-fee-example-rosetta-stone-vs-livemocha/ ...focusing on the evolution and economics of high technology business and strategy. By day, I am a venture capitalist at Benchmark Capital. Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:08:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Brian http://abovethecrowd.com/2009/08/20/a-real-time-free-vs-fee-example-rosetta-stone-vs-livemocha/#comment-4506 Thu, 22 Mar 2012 05:17:31 +0000 http://abovethecrowd.com/?p=407#comment-4506 fyi I did master Spanish but it sure would have been a lot faster and cheaper if I had livemocha. Again I say, “No telling how many languages I could have mastered if LM had been around 20 years ago.” Those who offer good, solid freemiums (that actually do something good) can really feel good about what they do for a living. It does way more than just make the founders rich. It gives a free gift to masses who would not or could not pay. Think of the droves of people in developing countries that are getting their very first home connection as I type this. They will soon be able to send free emails, make free pc to pc phone calls, read all kinds of free educational stuff, watch entertaining or educational vids on youtube and yes, even learn languages. Hopefully they won’t just use the net to watch porn.

I learned about freemium for free online as I was educating myself on my business venture–classified ads in my niche area of expertise. I’m not the first in this niche, but with the freemium model I think I can still grab my piece of the Internet to make a good business for myself and of course offer free to those who can’t pay but can tell their friends. Freemiums when successful make millions of people happy and only a few old competitors sad. That’s a good trade.

]]> By: Brian http://abovethecrowd.com/2009/08/20/a-real-time-free-vs-fee-example-rosetta-stone-vs-livemocha/#comment-4505 Thu, 22 Mar 2012 04:51:22 +0000 http://abovethecrowd.com/?p=407#comment-4505 I wish live mocha had been around when I was learning Spanish. No telling how many languages I could have learned for free/cheap and at my convenience. I used to listen to cassette tapes, take classes, read stuff, etc. I was so excited to find mylanguageexchange.com and a site for phonetics help with short audio/video clips. Now someone can get 10 times that deal from live mocha. No money? No problem–just go free. I love the freemium concept and what it has done for the world since the internet became prevalent. You can get more for free today than you could for big bucks 20 years ago.

]]> By: Elsie http://abovethecrowd.com/2009/08/20/a-real-time-free-vs-fee-example-rosetta-stone-vs-livemocha/#comment-4047 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 23:37:23 +0000 http://abovethecrowd.com/?p=407#comment-4047 Livemocha is free! I use it and haven’t payed a thing… Some things on it you have to pay for, but the basics and more are free.

]]> By: Marco http://abovethecrowd.com/2009/08/20/a-real-time-free-vs-fee-example-rosetta-stone-vs-livemocha/#comment-4015 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 06:09:53 +0000 http://abovethecrowd.com/?p=407#comment-4015 I’ve tried LiveMocha and am wondering if the audio quality is low because it is crowd-sourced.
Does anyone have any data on that?

]]> By: Jason West http://abovethecrowd.com/2009/08/20/a-real-time-free-vs-fee-example-rosetta-stone-vs-livemocha/#comment-3750 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 11:58:15 +0000 http://abovethecrowd.com/?p=407#comment-3750 Great to see this thread still going, and to read some of the contributions after my last post. This is a very interesting area. An update from our side…we have been running some case studies with randomly selected English learners. We found them in a forum on http://www.EnglishClub.com and just offered to help the first two people if they allowed us to record and publish everything. We used just our content in PDF and MP3 with Facebook and Skype. The Chinese learner (Jane, 27) had studied English formally for 16 years and still spoke like a beginner when we met her online. Here are the results (just six lessons later) in audio ‘before and after’ clips (all of the data from every session with Jane and Waldek is published for free on our podcast):

http://englishoutthere.com/listen

]]> By: Byron http://abovethecrowd.com/2009/08/20/a-real-time-free-vs-fee-example-rosetta-stone-vs-livemocha/#comment-3744 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:24:04 +0000 http://abovethecrowd.com/?p=407#comment-3744 I found rosetta stone free online. No credit card or virus or adware. I got all the languages free.
Go here:
http://www.filesonic.com/file/3843131004/Rosetta_Stone_v4.0_All_Languages.rar

]]> By: bgurley http://abovethecrowd.com/2009/08/20/a-real-time-free-vs-fee-example-rosetta-stone-vs-livemocha/#comment-3625 Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:02:58 +0000 http://abovethecrowd.com/?p=407#comment-3625 It was when I wrote this blog post. I would also mention that RST has gone down since IPO.

]]> By: cbcbass http://abovethecrowd.com/2009/08/20/a-real-time-free-vs-fee-example-rosetta-stone-vs-livemocha/#comment-3623 Wed, 19 Oct 2011 23:37:31 +0000 http://abovethecrowd.com/?p=407#comment-3623 Livemocha is NOT free!!

]]> By: Dave http://abovethecrowd.com/2009/08/20/a-real-time-free-vs-fee-example-rosetta-stone-vs-livemocha/#comment-1956 Mon, 18 Oct 2010 06:10:09 +0000 http://abovethecrowd.com/?p=407#comment-1956 I think that Rosetta Stone has a better methodology compared with LiveMocha! On the other hand with Rosetta you don’t need to be online and if you have the companion disks you can listen and practice any language while you are driving or even jogging!

]]> By: Jim http://abovethecrowd.com/2009/08/20/a-real-time-free-vs-fee-example-rosetta-stone-vs-livemocha/#comment-1934 Fri, 24 Sep 2010 05:53:59 +0000 http://abovethecrowd.com/?p=407#comment-1934 Hi, I am learning Spanish and I have tried http://www.hello-hello.com, Rosette Stone, Livemocha and http://www.busuu.com‘s courses. Each one of them has their own advantage from CD to many language courses, but I personally liked the course content of http://www.Hello-hello.com, developed with ACTFL (The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages). I think they worth more than trying since they are also Free.

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