Nat, who was obsessed by learning languages from the age of 12, studied Russian and Italian at Oxford University. There’s more than one type of language learner as Nat proves. The pair went on to found uTalk (formerly known as EuroTalk) - and fixed their own language problem.
And that again is part of where our product came from because we wanted something that was easy for lazy learners.” “And then we thought that maybe it was our fault for not learning French at school… and then maybe we thought actually we had really bad teachers at school… and then maybe we thought actually we were just really lazy learners. “They really annoyed us by talking in French all the time and we thought that was bad,” Dick relates with a chuckle. Dick and his work colleague, Andrew Ashe, went to a business meeting in Paris - and didn’t understand the spoken French. The decision to launch a language learning company came about because of a language problem. The only problem I had after that was I couldn’t decide whether it was a man or a woman!” I thought ‘easy’ - I will just wait until someone goes in and I waited and I waited and it must have been something like 20 minutes before someone went in one of the doors. “I needed to go to the bathroom and there were two doors and in those days no signs on the doors, just words and they were in Hungarian and I had no idea which one was which. It’s because, back in the company’s early days, Dick spent an uncomfortable half an hour in the deserted arrivals hall of a Hungarian airport.
Smart - intelligent software knows what you're good at (and where you need more help), uniquely tailoring the games to your individual level.Authentic - we source native speakers and translators to bring you all the content in uTalk Classic, ensuring you're learning to speak just like a local.uTalk Classic's games are designed to be fun and addictive, so you actually want to keep learning.
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