Innovation in Language Learning

Maintaining and improving a foreign language seems – and actually is – really hard, especially when people have no opportunity to speak it daily, or at least often on a weekly basis. Furthermore, the lack of native speakers with whom people can train the foreign language is a real obstacle to keep the fluency.

Two years ago these considerations led the Italian startup naboomboo to the creation of an online language community, a place where people can meet up and improve their foreign language. But what is exactly naboomboo? naboomboo is a language social network, a place where users can find different language partners with whom video-talk and train their language fluency. naboomboo wants to be the answer to those people who aim to improve their fluency and language proficiency, but by avoiding waste of time and money. In fact, naboomboo gives the perfect solution to meet native speakers to talk about common interests and topics: it is free, innovative and easy.

But naboomboo is also the only language social network with social value. Our first purpose is to give people the opportunity to know different languages and cultures, but also to spread theirs too. We dream of a world without language barriers, in which every language – and person – is unique and has to be known. This wish can be considered as the basis of the naboomboo mechanism: when you teach someone your language, you earn credits that you will spend while learning a foreign language. A sort of bank of time.

The naboomboo community is now composed of 40.000 people from 80 different countries in the world, and the number keeps growing day by day. Furthermore, a new aim of ours is also to help schools all over the world improve their supply of language courses, by giving them the opportunity to use our e-learning platform in order to teach online courses. From the smallest to the biggest. The demand for online courses keeps growing and is undoubtedly the future of teaching and learning.

We also want to help university students to learn a language before their study abroad programs, to learn a new language or culture and in particular to maintain the language learnt during their period abroad. This is what we call social value: make people feel comfortable with their foreign language fluency.