NEW YORK-Push-technology company Vocel and Random House Inc. announced a partnership to mobilize Random House’s Living Language foreign language self-study product onto mobile phones.
Living Language is offered by major mobile-phone carriers and allows users to access the lessons on their phone on a schedule that they choose. The service uses Vocel’s interactive messaging technology.
Initially, the language lessons are available for Spanish and English as a second language. Both lessons include more than 600 words, phrases, grammar lessons and short readings, said the companies.
“Vocel is committed to developing high-end interactive applications that help the cell phone evolve from just simply being a communications tool to a full-featured learning and entertainment companion that goes anywhere you do and improves the quality of your life,” said Carl Washburn, Vocel’s founder and chief executive officer. “Our partnership with Living Language, one of the premiere names in language study, is an exciting example of the kind of interactive, life-enhancement applications we are developing via our patent-pending technology.”
