Doctors Without Borders Renews Online Language Courses Cooperation with Babbel.com
Program now in its second year.
Atlanta, GA, August 03, 2012 --(PR.com)-- The online language learning platform Babbel.com is proud to provide the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) with free language courses for the second time.
Babbel started donating its first round of 200 vouchers last year. MSF volunteers can now continue to enjoy language learning with the additional commitment of 200 year-long course vouchers contributed by Babbel.
MSF aid workers from the U.S. will predominantly be using the French courses since about half of MSF’s projects are in francophone Africa.
Currently, MSF is providing emergency medical care in almost 70 countries – including urgently needed medical care to Sudanese refugees in South Sudan and complex nutritional and basic health care needs in the Sahel region of Africa.
"We are very happy to continue supporting MSF volunteers in learning and enhancing a language which will help them to work more effectively in their field," says Babbel’s CEO, Markus Witte. "We feel our product will particularly continue to be of great help since aid workers now can also learn on their iPhone, Android phone or iPad with our mobile Apps, which have proven to be very popular among language learners."
Besides French, Babbel also offers a wide range of courses, from absolute beginner to intermediate levels for languages such as Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Swedish, German, Polish, Dutch, Turkish, Indonesian and English. Further information can be found here: http://www.babbel.com/
About Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization created by doctors and journalists in France in 1971. Today, MSF provides independent, impartial assistance in nearly 70 countries to people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe, primarily due to armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, exclusion from health care, or natural disasters. In 1999, MSF was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. For more information visit www.doctorswithoutborders.org
About Babbel:
With the online learning system Babbel (http://www.babbel.com), both beginners and continuing learners can study English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Dutch, Indonesian, Polish and Turkish. There are tons of interactive courses available on the website www.babbel.com. There are also apps for iPhone, iPad, iPod and Android mobile devices, as well as an interactive e-book. More than 7 million people from over 200 countries are studying languages with Babbel.
The company behind Babbel, Lesson Nine GmbH, operates out of Berlin, Germany. Founded in August 2007, it now has around 120 fulltime and freelance employees. Since July 2008 Lesson Nine has been funded by Kizoo AG and VC-Fonds Berlin.
Press Contacts Babbel.com:
Atlanta, GA Corinna Rogers, corinna@staedelcomms.com, +1 404 941 4234
Babbel started donating its first round of 200 vouchers last year. MSF volunteers can now continue to enjoy language learning with the additional commitment of 200 year-long course vouchers contributed by Babbel.
MSF aid workers from the U.S. will predominantly be using the French courses since about half of MSF’s projects are in francophone Africa.
Currently, MSF is providing emergency medical care in almost 70 countries – including urgently needed medical care to Sudanese refugees in South Sudan and complex nutritional and basic health care needs in the Sahel region of Africa.
"We are very happy to continue supporting MSF volunteers in learning and enhancing a language which will help them to work more effectively in their field," says Babbel’s CEO, Markus Witte. "We feel our product will particularly continue to be of great help since aid workers now can also learn on their iPhone, Android phone or iPad with our mobile Apps, which have proven to be very popular among language learners."
Besides French, Babbel also offers a wide range of courses, from absolute beginner to intermediate levels for languages such as Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Swedish, German, Polish, Dutch, Turkish, Indonesian and English. Further information can be found here: http://www.babbel.com/
About Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization created by doctors and journalists in France in 1971. Today, MSF provides independent, impartial assistance in nearly 70 countries to people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe, primarily due to armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, exclusion from health care, or natural disasters. In 1999, MSF was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. For more information visit www.doctorswithoutborders.org
About Babbel:
With the online learning system Babbel (http://www.babbel.com), both beginners and continuing learners can study English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Dutch, Indonesian, Polish and Turkish. There are tons of interactive courses available on the website www.babbel.com. There are also apps for iPhone, iPad, iPod and Android mobile devices, as well as an interactive e-book. More than 7 million people from over 200 countries are studying languages with Babbel.
The company behind Babbel, Lesson Nine GmbH, operates out of Berlin, Germany. Founded in August 2007, it now has around 120 fulltime and freelance employees. Since July 2008 Lesson Nine has been funded by Kizoo AG and VC-Fonds Berlin.
Press Contacts Babbel.com:
Atlanta, GA Corinna Rogers, corinna@staedelcomms.com, +1 404 941 4234
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