User:Emigdio

Emigdio Niquet, Blablah.co CEO, language learner, and senior Accountant. With his background on languages and business, Niquet created a tool for those foreign-language learners to practice conversation. "With hundreds of language websites I have seen, there was none with a good conversation structure with native speakers." -Niquet explains.

Blahblah.co is a website that facilitates conversations among foreign language learners. The website is constantly guided towards the fluency of whichever foreign language people want to learn. Users have a specified time to speak their native language and the language they are learning. In doing this, they grow from basic to more experienced fluency in conversational skills by sharing parts of themselves and their cultures with others around the world and vice versa. All this while enjoying the benefits of an organic, organized, and original system.

(extended description found on the facebook page http://www.facebook.com/BlahBlahLearning)


 * To learn a language, schools are essential to an extent. We learn from a teacher and we can test ourselves and measure our knowledge. Nevertheless, fluency requires language students to “walk the extra-mile” with some useful materials such as a dictionary, books, music, movies, television, flash-cards, computer programs, and native speakers. All of these are essential in learning a language. Gen erally, the biggest problem a foreign language learner faces while learning a new language is the difficulty in finding native speakers in which to practice communicating. Typically, native speakers are willing to help others learn their language and, for the learners benefit, it is nice to talk to someone from a different culture. However, foreigners frequently visit a country for a limited season before moving on. How amazing would it be to be able to talk to people from different countries at the time we need them?

A few websites can help people to connect with each other. For instance, avideo conversation via Skype could be useful if we already have contacts from other countries. There are also video chat communities for certain languages. But, how willing are natives to help us at the moment we want for as long as we need? Even the most charitable person in this world has tasks to fulfill in his/her own life. Other websites offer tutors that are available for us but are usually expensive, and for that reason, many people who have the desire to learn another language, simply do not have the means.

Until now, there has been no successful website that helps people to exchange languages. Among millions of native Spanish speakers there are millions of English native speakers learning Spanish. Similar situations arise with several other languages including French, German, Chinese, Portuguese, Italian, and Japanese to mention a few.

Blahblah.co is a website that facilitates foreing language learners’ conversations. Every step on the website is constantly guided towards the fluency of whichever foreign language people want to learn. Users have a specified time to speak their native language and the language they are learning. In doing this, they grow from basic to more experienced fluency in conversational skills by sharing parts of themselves and their cultures with others around the world and vice versa. All this while enjoying the benefits of an organic, organized, and original system.*********

On October 21 of 2012 Blah blah won the Onswipe's annual Hackathon in New York this is the article

http://blog.onswipe.com/

followed by an important press article

http://betabeat.com/2012/10/bloomberg-broadband-dwolla-songza/    This is the extract:   "Chatroulette With a Purpose Onswipe held its hackathon this weekend, and the overall winner created something really awesome. BlahBlahLearning is a language learning platform that works over video chat. A pair of speakers who are each learning the other’s native tongue are given five minutes to speak in one language, then five minutes to speak in the other. Take some notes, Airtime, these guys have the right idea."

Opened an angel.co page in order to reach out to those investors interested in funding education/startups ideas https://angel.co/blah-blah-5#press

On November 22, 2012 the beta version of Blahblah.co was launched, allowing users to interact with each other. Opened a Facebook page to engage/inform language learners, and promote the need of a multi-cultural education. 1300 + likes in a month period.

On November 24th the Blah Blah Learning Youtube channel was launched https://www.youtube.com/user/BlahBlahLearning?feature=vmdshb With four quality videos added. Most viewed- 294 visits so far.

On November 26th, 2012 held a meeting with the head of the Portuguese department at UVU. She opened the door for future growth among universities around the world by accepting to test the implementation of the program as an extra tool for UVU students.

"Right now we are in the matching process with Portuguese speaking students who want to practice conversation with UVU students. The next step is to repeat the process with the other languages offered in schools around the Valley. The blah blah team will keep looking for the means to contribute to the sharing-culture expansion. http://blahblah.co" Niquet Concluded.