Talk:Livemocha

Speedy Deletion
I believe this article was deleted too hastily, on the grounds of significance. Livemocha is the first major language learning tool based on Web 2.0 technologies. Livemocha:
 * Covers six of the worlds most used languages
 * Has a $6 million startup
 * Was featured in the New York Times (Learning From a Native Speaker, Without Leaving Home, February 17, 2008) and the Wall Street Journal (What's New - Breaking the Language Barrier, January 28, 2008)
 * Is in plenty of other press (http://www.livemocha.com/pages/press)
 * Is easily Seattle's top startup (John Cook's Venture Blog)
 * Is totally unique in its approach to language learning, which is a multi-billion dollar business worldwide.
 * Has over 200 000 users from over 200 countries as of February (http://blog.livemocha.com/). Yes, this is according to the site themselves but Alexa backs them up.

I believes that this qualifies for significance due to: ...web-specific content is deemed notable based on meeting any one of the following criteria.
 * 1) The content itself has been the subject of multiple non-trivial published works whose source is independent of the site itself.
 * 2) * This criterion includes reliable published works in all forms, such as newspaper and magazine articles, books, television documentaries, websites, and published reports by consumer watchdog organizations.

I agree that these references weren't all in the article. But then, people have to sleep and this article was deleted with less than a few hours notice! In the future I'll pad articles out more before creating them. I must say though, speedy deletion means what it says!

I've placed a copy on my user page at User:Roobz/Livemocha. Please feel free to help with getting it up to the proper standings to see it reincluded. I will leave it there until a consensus is reached as to reinclusion or not in Wikipedia.

--Roobz (talk) 22:52, 17 April 2008 (UTC)


 * I believe changes to the article now address any significance elegibility concerns. I've checked with User:Moonriddengirl (administrator), who gave me a a good deal of help on what changes to make. Now lets get this baby up to Good Article status! --Roobz (talk) 02:40, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Interface portion
The interface portion reads as if it were an advertisement. Please re-write with a less biased POV —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.59.109.79 (talk) 16:57, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Site is unavailable
Who knows something? Is it temporarily? Maybe we should to add info about it? 217.146.246.12 (talk) 18:33, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
 * It's working now. Vanuan (talk) 19:57, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Adjustments
I have made some adjustments to the content as it is evident this hasn't been updated for a while. Korean has been introduced, and Livemocha is no longer a beta, with paying services offered.

--Alexandre8 (talk) 16:22, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

There is a site which has more languages: Terra Linguas Möte777 (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 15:55, 10 August 2010 (UTC).

Neutrality
As noted anonymously, the Interface part reads like an ad, so I added the POV tag. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Txmy (talk • contribs) 13:42, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

salut Je me nomme Antoine —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.207.201.135 (talk) 15:14, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

Second link for Further reading is dead AlanParkerFrance (talk) 17:10, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

pronunciacion
we are known as frindly and funny — Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.144.214.78 (talk) 04:19, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

Old version
"As of 2013, the website layout and the format of the lessons has completely changed. Formerly, the basic lessons mostly consisted of a series of pictures with both written and spoken phrases illustrating the content. In this respect it was very similar to Rosetta Stone. A new format is available for trial by accessing the beta, which is offered on the website now. However, the old version of Livemocha is still up and running both for the Basic and Active lessons." I am a subscriber to the free version. When I went on today, the new format is all I saw, and I didn't see any-thing indicating it is still in beta. As far as I can see, the old version (along with my course records) is gone. 211.225.33.104 (talk) 00:34, 8 November 2013 (UTC)


 * You can still access Old version through "legacy livemocha" link (check options menu in upper right corner) or directlyby this address: https://www.livemocha.com/users/login JRS (talk) 08:50, 22 December 2013 (UTC)

Free basic lessons
"Free basic courses are offered in all the above languages, consisting of roughly 30–50 hours of coursework." - I wonder whether this is still true. I am a legacy subscriber and, even though I am still in a basic lesson, any time I try to submit an answer, I come to a message that I don't have enough beans (credits that are bought with real money). So, from my experience, the free courses no longer operate when carried over.Kdammers (talk) 06:03, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

It's been discontinued
The Wayback Machine doesn't yet have an archived version of the page announcing the discontinuation. I'm providing some details here, as confirmation.

The discontinuation is announced currently (3/23/2016) on their main web page, http://livemocha.com, where an announcement appears as of 3/23/2016.

The full text of the announcement is:Update from Rosetta Stone / Livemocha

As a Livemocha member and a language enthusiast, you’ve helped build a very special community. Over the past number of years, Livemocha has sparked countless conversations and connections among millions of language lovers around the world.

Unfortunately, the Livemocha community will close permanently on Friday, April 22, 2016, and you will no longer be able to access your account after that date.

We highly encourage you to remain engaged, make friends, use those remaining beans, and build lifelong memories with us for the next few weeks.

Because we appreciate you and remain committed to your language learning success we invite you to download our award winning mobile application; Learn Languages with Rosetta Stone from any of these leading application stores for free and try any of the 24 languages it offers.

Apple App Store Google Play Store Amazon App Store

Don’t worry if you are still on a traditional computer try this.

And because we truly believe in changing the way the world learns languages here’s a special offer for you – don’t delay, claim today!

We have some very exciting things planned for our language learning suite and we hope you will choose to stay with us through this journey.

Many thanks for your participation and continued support.

The Rosetta Stone / Livemocha Team

Dpbsmith (talk) 15:20, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

Needs re-ordering
A recent (early 2018) edit adding information about www.livemocha.co has made the article confusing since it comes way before the text about RS buying the site. The edit also needs simple copy-editing. I don't know enough about the history the reliably make the corrections myself.Kdammers (talk) 02:02, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

Yea, I noticed this too... I think for now I'll just fix the official website, which is pointing to livemocha.co Bernardo.bb (talk) 19:58, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

Marketing example
The Livemocha case should be studied in every good marketing school around the world... It's the typical example of a successful firm, that has been bought by their competitors, and totally ruined. It's also a typical example of a company pretending to listen to the grievances of its users, and replying always the same thing to them: you don't like changes, it's the reason why you complain, so we must ignore your complaints. (Same thing happened to StumbleUpon and Duolingo). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.91.248.85 (talk) 12:59, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

I think the previous comment mis-reads the situation. Rosetta Stone probably bought Livemocha with the intention of destroying it, to eliminate a competitor. I can't find a printed source to confirm this so it can't go in the article, but I'm far from the only person to think this: link. Sayitclearly (talk) 07:13, 10 July 2019 (UTC)

New site...?
I just googled LiveMocha today as I was discussing it and was wanting to check when it was bought out and closed.... and there's a new LiveMocha site online now.

[www.livemochas.com]; note the pluralised form, not the original livemocha.com in singular. Branding looks pretty much identical to the old site, but the content seems new and different -- content says copyright 2020 LiveMocha LLC. LiveMocha LLC |shows a business address that Google reports as being Rosetta Stone's Seattle office.

Anyone know what's going on here...? Prof Wrong (talk) 13:34, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm wondering the same thing. --Hipal (talk) 21:24, 21 January 2021 (UTC)