VERBAL PLANET

Established in 2006, Verbalplanet.com operates in the global market for learning foreign languages as a platform facilitating online language lessons between language learners and language tutors from around the world using the Skype internet telephony service. For Language Learners For the language student, Verbalplanet.com offers the opportunity to learn and practice speaking a foreign language in a truly interactive way with the support, encouragement and professionalism of your own persona... l language tutor, irrespective of time zone, currency or distance. The platform functions as a market for language tuition services so students are able to ‘shop around’ for their ideal language tutor according to a wide range of criteria including the tutor’s profile, price, feedback rating from previous clients and more... Key Benefits: • Mobility – You can learn online with your tutor from anywhere you have an internet connection making the service ideal for people who travel. • Flexibility – There is no commitment to a course. You decide how many lessons you'd like & when. Simply pick the times that suit your lifestyle from your tutor's online diary. • Affordability – The marketplace format of Verbalplanet.com ensures that prices are always competitive and are shown in your local currency. • Availability – Online tuition removes distance as a barrier to learning and provides student’s access to tutors of certain languages which may not otherwise be possible in their location. • Confidence – The live interaction between tutor & student brings learning a language to life and builds confidence in a way not possible with many self study courses. • Partnership – Learning in partnership with a personal tutor provides you with the support, feedback & motivation you need to succeed. • Choice –Verbalplanet.com allows users to pick and choose between language tutors all around the world. • Personal – Lessons are tailored to your individual needs and objectives. Your tutor will teach at the pace you need or want. For Language Teachers For individual language tutors, Verbalplanet.com represents a sales channel through which language teachers can connect with a worldwide audience and sell their ‘time’ online through a marketplace format. In the same way that EBay empowered the individual seller of tangible goods, Verbalplanet.com, using internet telephony, empowers language tutors by giving them the potential to reach out and connect with language learners all over the world. To date the platform has brought together language teachers and students as far apart as the USA and Auckland New Zealand. About the Technology Verbalplanet.com was developed from inception to use Skype, the most prevalent internet telephony service. Skype is ideally suited to learning languages due to the high call quality over modern broadband networks and the additional functionality it offers such as file transfer, video and text chat between users. As all Verbalplanet.com members use Skype there are no call costs due to all ‘Skype’ to ‘Skype’ calls being free regardless of distance or duration. Our Mission New technologies continue to make enormous changes to the way people learn modern languages. Whilst we are a 'high tech' service, we are proud to be championing an innovative approach to learning a foreign language with a very 'human' side, and one which focuses on what we believe learning a foreign language is all about: Real people engaging in real conversation.More