…By building fun, practical languages apps that make learning hard languages easy.
Simon and Khwan first met in a finance class at the University of Münster, Germany.
Ling app officially launches on the App Store and Play Store.
What started off as a side project for Simon to learn Khwan's native language, Thai, led to the development of Simply Learn Thai. After the app gained traction, they decided to launch a new app - the Ling app - with a new design, icon, and more advanced learning techniques.
The Ling app reaches 100,000 downloads across the App Store and Play Store.
Ling hires more talent and collaborates with local Thai communities.
Ling web officially launches.
Bought first office space in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
The Ling app reaches 1 million new users.
Started expanding the teams and growing the Ling blog.
Ling recruits team members from Thailand, US, Canada, the Philippines, Cambodia, Myanmar, Pakistan, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, and more.
Ling is featured in the App Store as one of the "Great Apps For Education" in 15 countries.
The Ling app receives 5+ million downloads worldwide.
Ling 2.0 launches company-wide with new branding, UX, and UI.
Courses expanded to 40+ languages in over 30 locales.
7 million website visitors.
Ling Scholarship launches.
Featured in Forbes, Buzzfeed, and VOGUE.
First internationally-held quarterly meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam.
Team grows to 35+ full-time and 10+ part-time members.
Everyone’s input matters at Ling, so we sat down to create our seven company values together. We encourage everyone to embody these values daily because when we’re working under the same vision, we can accomplish something great.
We view every day as a new learning opportunity.
We strive to understand each and every one of you.
We hold ourselves and each other to high standards.
We rely on data to guide our decisions.
We try new things. We move fast.
We use open feedback to improve ourselves.
We laugh, we work, we achieve together.
The origin of Ling is one of love and passion for connection and learning languages. Simon wanted to learn Thai, Khwan’s native language, to communicate better with her friends and family.
As with most Southeast Asian languages, there weren’t any good resources for learning Thai. So, they created their own. That was 6 years ago. Thanks to Simon and Khwan, the app education world was changed forever.
Now, Ling is the leading app for learning Thai and several other Asian and Eastern European languages, and the growing team comprises young, multilingual talent from around the world. With such a diverse team, we genuinely understand the importance of language learning and giving representation to overlooked languages.
Ling uses gamification to make learning fun and rewarding because, let’s face it, languages are hard! You can earn awards after every lesson is completed and even rank on our leaderboard. Ling carefully and thoughtfully creates lessons to make learning languages as easy as possible because every language deserves to be spoken.
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