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Language Lab was founded in 2005, by the CEO and managing director, David Kaskel. A graduate of Yale University, David is currently doing doctoral research into language acquisition models in virtual environments at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at Kings College in London.

There was over two years of research and development and many thousands of hours of student testing involved, before Language Lab was opened to it's first paying students. Language Lab is now free to join, here. From the outset Language Lab has been entirely focused on creating and delivering a unique approach to language learning bringing together the best of real world teaching and virtual world environments.

Language Lab builds "journeys" for their students, essentially classes that walk a student through the specific situations one might confront socially, in school, or in business. With no more than 12 students in any class, and a teacher dedicated to each, Language Lab's business is highly labor intensive. Equally challenging is the diverse make-up of Language Lab's student body. Nearly fifty countries are represented in Language Lab classes.

Second Life is a virtual world where users can own private property, build realistic places and communities, operate businesses, and navigate the world with physical figures called avatars. Mr. Kaskel had the idea to combine Second Life Technology with his Language Lab teaching environment, when he was in a traffic jam in Naples, during which he was forced to speak Italian to his driver. Being in this real case scenario helped his new language skills to progress quicker. So he feels that giving his students access to learning a new language in a realistic environment will help to progress their skills in a shorter period of time.

In Language Lab, students and teachers talk to and hear each other using VoIP capabilities. Voice capabilities are bundled with the Second Life software that users download to their PCs. Voice in Second Life is also 3-D, meaning that the voices from avatars who are near will sound louder than avatars who are farther away.

The system does this by modifying a particular user's sound stream according to his or her avatar's position in the world. As a result, each of the thousands of Second Life users in the world at any moment using voice will have a unique audio stream. Sounds like an exciting and fun way to learn a new language.

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