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Spanish Social Network Wamba is Acquired for €4 Million.

zee Written on 24th February 2009                                                                                                              4 COMMENTS some text
Zee, Editor in Chief at The Next Web, Principal at WeDoCreative.

Spanish Social Network Wamba is Acquired for €4 Million.Spanish social network Wamba has been acquired by New York based Latino entertainment community Mio.tv.

According to Techcrunch the company was acquired for approximately €4 Million, however other sources claim it’s closer to the €5million mark.

Wamba initially raised €3 million from Skype investor and recently bankrupt entrepreneur Morten Lund in 2007, however the acquisition should come as good news to Lund who retained 40% of Wamba shares.

With 8.4 million users, Wamba is in the third most popular social network in Spain, however it lies far behind the likes of Facebook and Tuenti who are in first and second respectively.

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Lingus.tv: learn Spanish by watching a cheesy sitcom

Ernst-Jan Written on 7th July 2008                                                                                                              4 COMMENTS some text
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief

Ok, maybe the headline isn’t fair, as I don’t speak more than three words of Spanish. But the episodes of Lingus.tv look pretty cheesy to me – with build-in laughs and all. But hey, maybe I would say the same about Seinfeld in Spanish. Anyway…, let’s get to important part of this post, since I’d like to introduce you to a new way of learning Spanish.

the Lingus team
The Lingus team

Sergio Gazeau, Toni López, and Joan Balañá wanted to create a new way of learning Spanish, in which laughter would play a major role. Sergio had over six years experience in the language teaching business, so he knows the theories. He approached Toni and Joan for the technological and entertainment aspects. Together with thirteen other workers – including actors – and two Sony XDCAM high def cameras, they’ve created a web channel.

Lingus.tv features different episodes from a sitcom – divided in three levels, from beginner to advanced -, which all come with an outline, translation (those taught me the episodes really are cheesy) and several sound files of the hardest words. I guess Lingus.tv doesn’t work when it’s the only language learning tool you use – unless you try really, really hard. But it sure can be useful when you combine it with lessons. That’s probably the reason why Lingus.tv also sells licenses to schools that teach Spanish.

[Via: Loogic]

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