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| Mondly Will Now Use AR to Help You Learn a New LanguageBy: Mondly To create the experience, Mondly has worked in close collaboration with Google. Mondly takes learning out of the books and brings it to life into your living room using augmented reality The new experience from MondlyAR helps people develop a strong sense of the language they want to learn through highly realistic visual lessons and purposeful conversations. This approach is aiming to stimulate people to learn languages not because they have to, but because it's genuinely fun. Mondly, the lifelike language learning assistant with magical powers uses augmented reality to bring language lessons to life. Planets, animals, musical instruments and other virtual creations - Mondly makes them emerge seamlessly into the learners' environmentsgiving them the possibility to walk up to them, view them from different angles and even interact with them. Just like in real life. Just as futuristic, the chatbot experience from Mondly aims to be the closest thing to a real interaction. Mondly understands spoken language, replies with a human voice, changes her outfit according to the topic of discussion and uses gestures to support her statements. Alex Iliescu, CEO of Mondly, spoke about the launch: Augmented Reality has the potential to change the way we learn. We wanted to leverage this technology to reinvent the way people learn languages. The result is an exciting new experience that allows people to place a virtual character as well as animals, musical instruments or even planets into their own home through the screen of their smartphone. The most exciting part is that you can have conversations with the smart virtual character that responds and offers feedback on your pronunciation. We learn faster when we visualize and interact with what we are learning about. MondlyAR brings conversations, animals and objects to life to help people learn languages in a fun way. A new step towards the future of education The launch of MondlyAR comes after the company has released MondlyVR, the first Virtual Reality language app with speech recognition, in February 2017 and the launch of the first voice-enabled language chatbot in August 2016. The popular Mondly language app has been downloaded by over 30 million people and has been selected as winner "App of the Year 2017" in Europe, The Middle East, and Africa by Facebook FbStart. Here's what you should know about MondlyAR: • Available inside the main mobile app from Mondly on Google Play • Offers 10 lessons and 3 chatbots • Uses Google ARCore • Teaches 7 languages: American English, British English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), German • By the next update, it aims to teach up to 30 languages in augmented reality • The free version offers 2 lessons and 1 chatbot • The full Mondly experience (AR module and main app) is available for $9.99 per month or $47.99 per year Facts and figures about Mondly: • 30 million downloads, in over 190 countries • Teaches 33 languages • 4.7/5 star rating in the App Store and Google Play from more than 700,000 customer reviews • Awarded "App of the Year 2017" in EMEA by Facebook FbStart • Selected "Editors' Choice" on Google Play • Mondly Kids is also "Editors' Choice" and was named "Best of 2017" on Google Play • Launched the first voice-enabled chatbot with speech recognition for language learning in the world in August 2016 • Launched MondlyVR, the first Virtual Reality language app with speech recognition in the world in February 2017 • Available oniPhone, iPad (https://itunes.apple.com/ • Mondly Press Kit (https://www.dropbox.com/ Media mentions about Mondly: • INC.com - "The New Way to Learn Languages" • Bloomberg.com -"The closest thing to Classroom Education" • Forbes.com - "A practical approach to language learning likely to be widely adopted." • Digital Trends - "The Mondly experience leverages the immersive quality of VR" • TheNextWeb.com - "The Closest Thing to Actual Immersion" • Huffington Post - "Virtual reality the new and sexier way to learn languages" • VentureBeat - "A lot more fun and easy than just reading flashcards" Extra quotes from the CEO: About the vision behind Mondly: The release of the MondlyAR experience aligns with our goal to become the most innovative language learning company in the world. Mondly was the first to release a voice-enabled chatbot in August 2016 followed by the launch of the first Virtual Reality app with speech recognition on Facebook's Oculus Store in February 2017 and on Google Daydream in September 2017. About the idea to launch an Augmented Reality language app: Augmented Reality has the potential to change the way we learn. We wanted to leverage this technology to reinvent the way people learn languages. The result is an exciting new experience that allows people to place a virtual character as well as animals, musical instruments or even planets into their own home through the screen of their smartphone. The most exciting part is that you can have conversations with the smart virtual character that responds and offers feedback on your pronunciation. We learn faster when we visualize and interact with what we are learning about. MondlyAR brings conversations, animals and objects to life to help people learn languages in a fun way. Future plans for MondlyAR (https://www.mondly.com/ Augmented Reality changes the world and the process of learning with it. We created MondlyAR wanting to reinvent the way we learn languages and make it fun. Lions, elephants, musical instruments and food are brought to life to supercharge the learning process. But that was still not enough. We wanted to allow people to tackle the most difficult part of learning: practice. This is how we created Mondly, the virtual character you can have conversations with. End
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