welcome to behind the scenes at
innovative language learning i'm jesse
one of the hosts at japanesepod101.com
and today i'll be telling you a little
bit about the company
keep watching to find out how you can
get your questions answered in part two
of our behind the scenes project let's
start from the very beginning
in 2005 peter gallante started
japanesepod101.com with a couple of
friends some publishing software and a
passion for teaching language
the goal was to create and deliver fast
fun and effective japanese language
lessons for free via podcast now
remember back in 2005 podcasting was a
revolutionary new technology but after a
lot of trial and error
japanesepod101.com took off the response
was huge and the demand for new features
and languages came in
now five years later innovative language
learning is much more than just
japanesepod101.com
we now have sites for 16 different
languages that's 8 000 language lessons
and counting there's the super popular
survivalphrases.com
geared towards world travelers
over 300 iphone and ipad apps are ready
for download in the apple itunes store
and language learning cds and dvds are
ready to ship thanks to our loyal
listeners and publications like newsweek
pc magazine and the new york times we
were able to reach 101 million lesson
downloads in 2010
a huge milestone for us considering we
started with one guy at one desk but of
course we're always working on something
new new languages new series and more
there's more to the story but we can't
forget about the listeners our center of
support for the past five years we get
asked a lot of questions about our
company from everything about the hosts
to how we make our lessons in our next
news lesson we'll be answering your
questions directly
so if you have a question about
innovative language learning leave it in
the comments section of this news lesson
i'll be answering your questions next
time with a very special guest thanks
for watching leave us your comment by
october 24th and we'll see you in two
weeks
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