David Bar-El

davidbar-el.com My portfolio is up. This is my first website, so feel free to provide feedback.

@MPPVM @AarhusUni @sejer @IDC_ACM Congrats! Maarten, you always bring the positive vibes to IDC.

I would like to thank Babbel for this wonderful opportunity. A special thanks to Miriam Plieninger for making this internship possible and to Jennifer Dorman who guided me and empowered me throughout this experience. #design #babbel #languagelearning #edtech #uxr #lxd #learning

This process culminated in my qualitative analysis of the Babbel Live offering - interactive video-based language classes led by expert language teachers - that I delivered to the design and curriculum team which will be used to help define future iterations of the product.

I was so fortunate to spend this summer as a learner experience design intern at Babbel. I will continue to reflect on the lessons I learned and share these on Twitter. For now, I would like to briefly summarize what I got to do at Babbel:

@YeahThatCindy @irvspanish @cheapshot I really enjoyed this song. My first attempt at translating the lyrics was very weak. However, once I walked through a verse with Google Translate, I began to learn things like the ending "ita" which like "chen" in German renders nouns smaller (and I assume cuter).

@DavidBarEl2 @irvspanish @cheapshot Gaby Moreno from Guatemala is the first who comes to mind, will keep thinking!!

Looking for recommendations for online media to support my Spanish learning journey (A1/A2 level content please). I'm thinking about songs with rich lyrics (e.g. singer songwriters), video games, Netflix shows/movies, and podcasts. @YeahThatCindy @irvspanish @cheapshot

@YeahThatCindy @irvspanish @cheapshot What a voice! Thanks for the suggestion.

@laylah @YeahThatCindy @irvspanish @cheapshot Good idea! Any suggestions for print media though? At my level, I would probably gain a lot by reading the news in Spanish. For written content, I often create Google docs and use a table to highlight what I understand and translate what I don't.

@YeahThatCindy @irvspanish @cheapshot I'm a sucker for singer-songwriter / folk music. Any recommendations in that genre including modern musicians? I love Argentina's Mercedes Sosa, but would like to broaden my playlist.

@DavidBarEl2 @irvspanish @cheapshot For music, I’d let tastes and countries lead you. If you’re interested in a particular country’s culture, check out their hip hop — often overflowing with cultural, political and historical references. I love the Orishas for this for Cuba 🙂

@cheapshot @YeahThatCindy @irvspanish Oh, I like the Twitter idea a lot. That way it's guaranteed to be bite sized. Thx!

@DavidBarEl2 @YeahThatCindy @irvspanish Spanish Twitter users and subreddits related to your interests would be my first recommendation.

@YeahThatCindy 100%

Achievement unlocked ✅✅

@susietinker5 @PlayCraftLearn @allicat210 This is so cool!

How cool is my boss?!? #MinecraftEdu bringing relevant and meaningful learning experiences to students all around the world. @PlayCraftLearn @allicat210

@joshraclaw This tweet is perfect haha. My appreciation of Yiddish grew tenfold once I learned German, and I'm so happy to see that Yiddish is offered in Duolingo with Hebrew letters.

@yhod Mazal tov!!

woohoo: tenured and associate!!!

@AnderBeristain @YeahThatCindy @duolingo Agreed.

And ANOTHER learning scientist position was just posted @duolingo! This one for a PhD with expertise in non-native speech perception and production 😍 Be still my acoustician heart! boards.greenhouse.io/duolingo/jobs/…

@ResearcherKrit What a great chapter describing @ConnectedCamps, the important role of social structure, norms, and near-peer mentoring in a Minecraft mediated environment. Moreover, a neat articulation of the differences between a fully virtual camp versus a hybrid model.

Look what arrived in the mail today (-: @katieatplay @ResearcherKrit @drgamermom @BarryFishman @davidfreeplay