Livemocha Foreign Language Travel Crash Course Now Available for Travelocity Customers

SEATTLE & SOUTHLAKE, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Livemocha, the world’s largest online language learning community, announced today that it will be working with Travelocity, one of the largest online travel agencies in the world, to provide an online Travel Language Crash Course to Travelocity customers. Travelocity will now offer its customers Livemocha’s online Travel Crash Course with 70 hours of instruction in six popular languages for a combined price of $29.95 at Travelocity.com. Travel Crash Course students will also receive MP3 audio for 500 travel-related words and phrases to help build their foreign language skills. In addition to this travel-specific content, Travelocity customers will also have access to Livemocha’s engaging social learning environment, where customers can immerse themselves in new languages and cultures through interaction with native speakers prior to visiting a travel destination.

“At Travelocity, part of our mission is to inspire our customers to see the world, and Livemocha’s Travel Crash Course is an innovative way to do that,” said Cady Wolf, Vice President, Partner Marketing, Travelocity. “As the world’s largest language learning community, Livemocha provides a great resource for people who want to enhance their travel experience. Knowing how to interact with the locals while you are traveling can make the difference between a good trip and a truly amazing trip.”

When buying a flight on Travelocity.com, customers will be provided with the option to purchase an online Travel Crash Course from Livemocha during the checkout process. Each Travel Crash Course uses engaging and culturally relevant exercises to motivate travelers to learn, with access to the world’s largest language learning community of native speakers. Livemocha’s Travel Crash Course combines fun, guided lessons with real-time practice to learn Spanish, French, German, Italian and Mandarin Chinese. Comprehensive listening, reading and sentence construction exercises are designed to help students learn 500 commonly used travel phrases. Travelocity customers have 90 days to complete the 70 hours of instruction at their own convenience.

“Many travelers rely on simple tourist phrase books to help them navigate their way in foreign countries, which offer minimal practical value,” said Shirish Nadkarni, CEO, Livemocha. “With Livemocha, travelers will develop real language skills with fun, interactive exercises, and explore the language and culture of their foreign destination with the help of the world’s largest community of native speakers.”

The new Travel Crash Course is just one of the many ways people are using Livemocha to learn new languages in order to prepare for international travel, advance their career, make social connections, supplement their education and more. Since its launch in September 2007, over 1 million people around the world have joined Livemocha. Currently the service features lessons for eleven popular languages – English, Spanish, French, Hindi, German, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, and Mandarin Chinese — with additional languages being added in the future.

For more information on the Travel Crash Course available through Travelocity, please visit: http://www.livemocha.com/promo_codes/travelocity.

About Livemocha

Livemocha is a Seattle-based company that is redefining language learning by combining dynamic online lessons with the world's largest community of native language speakers. Livemocha is a free service that allows its members to become conversationally proficient in an ever-growing number of popular languages, including English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Icelandic, Italian, Hindi, Japanese, Mandarin and Russian. Since launching in September 2007, Livemocha community has already grown to 1 million members, a clear indication of the demand for an engaging, collaborative approach to language learning. There are currently over 375 million people wanting to learn a language worldwide, and the market is currently estimated to be $20 billion, fueled by rapid globalization, immigration and travel. For more information about Livemocha, please visit www.livemocha.com.

About Travelocity Global

Travelocity® is committed to being the traveler's champion -- before, during and after the trip – and provides the most comprehensive and proactive guarantee in the industry (www.travelocity.com/guarantee). This customer-driven focus, backed by 24/7 live phone support, competitive prices and powerful shopping technology has made Travelocity one of the largest travel companies in the world with annual gross bookings of more than U.S. $10 billion. Travelocity also owns and operates: Travelocity Business® for corporate travel; igougo.com, a leading online travel community; lastminute.com, a leader in European online travel; and ZUJI, a leader in Asia-Pacific online travel. Travelocity is owned by Sabre Holdings Corporation, a world leader in travel marketing and distribution.