Think about the last time you read a textbook: You were most likely counting down the minutes until you could close the book, open a pint of ice cream and finish that movie you were watching. Textbooks aren’t traditionally associated with warm, fuzzy feelings, and may remind you of stuffy high school classrooms and standardized …
To be a successful marketer, it’s critical to stay on top of the industry terms and tactics that are constantly changing in today’s digital landscape. Take mobile marketing, for example: More than $100 billion was spent on mobile advertising last year, accounting for more than 50% of all digital ad expenditure globally. That’s a nearly …
Quando você trabalha com equipes internacionais você reconhece a importância de poder se comunicar utilizando uma língua comum. Embora num processo de contratação seja decisivo identificar os candidatos certos o mais rapidamente possível, avaliar com precisão suas competências linguísticas pode ser um processo longo e oneroso. Pare de contar com a sorte para seus processos …
2017 is the year of the job seeker. According to trusted sources like Fortune and Indeed, the global economy is gradually recovering from the Great Recession and more employers are looking to hire—but there’s a smaller pool of talented candidates to choose from than in previous years. This is great news for job seekers hoping …
It’s been estimated that more than 2.3 billion people will be smartphone users in 2017—an almost 150% increase in just three years and climbing. And for the first time in history, more people are accessing the internet using a mobile device than a desktop computer. These numbers are staggering and the shift to mobile is …
Imagine you’re an emergency room nurse, managing multiple life-threatening injuries in a hectic environment, rushing alongside dozens of other medical professionals to get a patient in critical condition the treatment he needs to survive. Now imagine having to do all that in a language you’re not comfortable speaking. When you need to learn English for …
Every language learner has his or her own unique needs, which is why it can be so difficult for educators to give entire groups of students the personalized language support they need in a traditional classroom setting—there simply isn’t enough time! Uniube, a Brazilian university with about 25,000 students, understands this problem well. The school …
The Voxy Education team will travel to Barcelona next week for TBLT 2017, an international conference on Task-Based Language Teaching. So today we’re sharing a sneak peek of the new research the team will be presenting! TBLT is a proven approach to teaching second languages and it forms the foundation of Voxy’s methodology. TBLT tells …
O cenário econômico global em constante mudança transforma a maneira com que nos comunicamos em nossa vida profissional. Equipes e empresas estão cada vez mais internacionais e, mais que nunca, o inglês é a língua franca que permite promover a colaboração e a comunicação. Mas as necessidades de cada aluno são diferentes, já que cada …
We’re excited to announce that Voxy received a 2017 Cool Tool Award from EdTech Digest for being this year’s best language learning solution! This award program honors the innovators, leaders, and trendsetters who are improving the quality of education around the world through new technology. With so many edtech products on the market, teachers, schools …