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Livemocha is an online language learning community, providing instructional materials in 38 languages and a platform for speakers to interact with and help each other learn new languages. According to the site, it has approximately 12 million registered members from 196 countries around the globe. It is free to join and use, however there is an option to pay for various benefits. Over 400,000 users visit the site daily.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.wolframalpha.com/entities/web_domains/livemocha.com/k7/0v/z7/ )〕 The company was founded in 2007 by Raghav Kher, Shirish Nadkarni and Krishnan Seshadrinathan. They came up with the idea for a web-based approach while utilizing the power of social networking sites for language learning, with an emphasis on active participation and exchange in order to hone practical skills and conversational fluency. The name “Livemocha” was invented by the founders during a brainstorming session at a local café, and is meant to evoke the relaxed atmosphere of a coffee shop. On June 8, 2010, Michael Schutzler was announced as the new CEO. Their headquarters is in Seattle, Washington. The site has received attention from trade publications and national and international newspapers, including the ''New York Times'' and the ''Financial Times''. ''Time'' magazine named Livemocha one of its 50 Best Websites in 2010. On April 2, 2013, Rosetta Stone announced that it had acquired Livemocha.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=BusinessWire )〕 On January 8, 2014, Livemocha closed access to its legacy website. ==Basic courses== Livemocha currently supports 38 languages: English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Estonian, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Mandarin Chinese, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, and Esperanto, which is the most recent addition. The site can be viewed in 12 different languages: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish. Free basic courses are offered in all the above languages, consisting of roughly 30–50 hours of coursework. Several languages, like Lithuanian and Brazilian Portuguese, were first added to Livemocha through the process of “Member Translation”: members fluent in two or more languages may translate already available course materials into their native tongue and publish the results on the site, with other users rating and improving the translations. This process is still ongoing. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Livemocha」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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