MyGengo, a low cost translation company recently published a report covering the state of affairs in the language learning industry for 2009. Some of the interesting points and statistics revealed is as follows:

Chinese, Spanish and English represent only 30% of the worlds spoken language by population. But these languages make up roughly 60% of the [...]

 We have to admit, Google Translate rocks. It now supports 51 total languages after recently having added Afrikaans, Belarusian, Icelandic, Irish, Macedonian, Malay, Swahili, Welsh and Yiddish.
 
For those who don’t know, Google does translation of words and phrases into multiple languages, using human translators and a technology that facebook has been trying to patent.
So, are [...]

The German based Lesson Nine, the language learning company behind Babbel.com recently announced to their 500,000 users that they have switched over from a freemium to a pay to use business model. Managing Director Markus Witte stated:
Babbel is now a paid service. Freemium doesnt work for us.
Now, only the first section of an online language [...]

Despite being in early development and only currently supporting Mandarin language, Lingt.com had a review of their language learning website written up by techcrunch and saw their traffic jump a huge amount.
 
Right before the article, Lingt had an Alexa ranking of  3,245,881. One week later, it plummeted to 388,600. The lower the Alexa ranking the more [...]

The website EnglishCentral.com raised $3.5 Million USD in funding from an unknown source according to a SEC Filing. EnglishCentral is already backed by  Google Ventures and Atlas Venture and provides English language learning by utilizing a text to speech software which analzes the students voice and makes sense of their pronunciation in order to give them [...]

Here is a list of language learning websites and their alexa ranking, indicating the relative amount of traffic each site gets daily. The lower the number, the more traffic.
livemocha.com = 4,080
englishtown.com = 5,769 (english only)
smart.fm = iknow.co.jp = 13,540
italki.com = 14,361
wordie.org = wordnik.com = 31,127
quizlet.com = 31,766
edufire.com = 32,228
babbel.com = friendsabroad.com = 46,163
lang-8.com = 47,548
mylanguageexchange.com [...]

LG launches website to help parents understand what their kids are saying when they are texting their friends. Their website called DTXTR.com, pronounced Dee-Text-Er. Taking a page from how Phrasebase works, if dxtr doesn’t understand a given input, it asks for you to do the translation for them, so that translation can be added to [...]

The company neuroLanguage has a unique business model. Part of what makes it unique is that it’s difficult to understand what exactly they do. When you figure out what they do, you learn that it’s more a platform technology they are creating for 3rd party developers more than it is an end product for consumers. Here [...]