The Quizlet team recently moved into a new office in San Francisco. Check it out! Our "lobby" complete with yellow couch and huge Quizlet banner. The two screens show real-time Quizlet usage stats from all over the world and help us visualize Quizlet traffic. A full-length view of the office. (Not…

Here's a quick update on what's new at Quizlet this fall. 7 Million Study Sets! Quizlet has continued to grow in and we recently passed 7 million study sets. Wow! Quizlet In Translation Quizlet is now available in 8 languages with 2 more (Spanish and Korean) on the way. Quizlet in the News Founder…

We recently launched an update to our homepage video. You can see it on our newly redesigned logged-out homepage as well as on YouTube. We wanted a 60-second video that demonstrated all the different ways you can study on Quizlet. Thanks to the talented Dan Hoffman for collaborating on the project.

We are proud to announce the launch of Quizlet in Russian. If your web browser is set for Russian already, Quizlet will automatically appear in Russian. If you'd like to see the site in Russian, go to our language drop down in the bottom left corner of every page and select Русский. A huge thank you…

A few weeks ago we launched our newest study mode, Speller. If you haven't used it yet, go try it. This post is more in-depth and technical than usual, but it gives a behind the scenes look at how we created Speller, our engineering challenges and processes, and how we obsessed over the user experie…

We are proud to announce the launch of Quizlet in Portuguese! If your web browser is set for Portuguese already, Quizlet will automatically appear in Portuguese. If you'd like to see the site in Portuguese, go to our language drop down in the bottom left corner of every page and select Portugués. A…

We here at Quizlet are proud to announce the beta launch of the second version of our API. This launch is a major improvement of the API that powers over 50 mobile apps. If you're a developer, you will no doubt be keen to take advantage of the new features that version 2 provides. You can start by e…

It's back-to-school time. The Quizlet staff has been working hard all summer to add new features to the site. For Quizletters who have been away all summer, here's a quick tour of what's new. New Study Mode - SPELLER Speller is our newest study mode where you type what you hear. It's like a traditi…

Hey Quizletters, Every day we receive amazing testimonials of how Quizlet is helping students study better and improve their grades. We want to let the outside world know about them! Quizlet is looking for a few users who could speak to the press about their experience on the site. Are you a great c…

We just launched Speller, a new study mode where you type what you hear. Speller works well for a number of studying needs: Foreign language vocabulary and pronunciation. Learn how to spell difficult words. Familiarize yourself with a list of terms you don't know very well. Listen to a term or de…

Today Quizlet launched audio in 13 additional languages, bringing our total up to 18! The new languages are: French Russian Portuguese Arabic German Italian Turkish Polish Dutch Greek Swedish Finnish Romanian This is in addition to English, Spanish, Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Japanese,…

Making flashcards on Quizlet just got easier. We recently launched several changes to the "Enter your flash cards" section of the Create Flashcards page. The biggest change is new language drop down buttons. Make sure to select the correct language—this will ensure that other Quizlet features, like…

You can now inline edit your flashcards directly from the main Flashcard set page. For sets which you created, simply double-click on a term or definition to change it. When you're done, click outside of the box, or press enter. Note that on the regular edit page, pressing enter inside a text box w…

As the 2010/2011 school year comes to a close we thought we'd share some highlights. All of the numbers are from September 1, 2010 to June 1, 2011. Usage: 20+ million unique visitors 232 countries/territories (out of 237 total per United Nations) 10:37 minutes average time on site 100+ million new…

Quizlet's interface is now available in Simplified Chinese! And we still have Chinese audio, which you can try out here. How does it work? If your browser is already set for Simplified Chinese, you will automatically see the Quizlet Chinese interface. If not, you can manually change the interface l…

Today I'm announcing that I'm leaving MIT to go full time on Quizlet. I started Quizlet in 2005 to help myself with my high school french class. Since then, Quizlet has become one of the largest education sites in the world. We recently passed 5 million sets and 150 million terms and definitions. O…

We're looking for an extraordinary person to join our small entrepreneurial team in San Francisco as a Quizlet Marketing & Support Evangelist. This person is a huge Quizlet fan, passionate about education and technology, and excited by the prospect of navigating unchartered waters and making a d…

Hey Quizletters, On March 31st Quizlet passed its 5 millionth user-generated flashcard set. Wow! We've been racking up new records this school year. It took 869 days to reach the first 1 million flashcard sets but just 78 days (January 12, 2011 to March 31, 2011) to go from 4 million to 5 million s…

We're pleased to announce our newest language, Igpay Atinlay. According to Wikipedia, it is spoken by the inhabitants of the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland. We're thrilled to allow Quizleters in these countries the ability to navigate Quizlet in their nat…

We've just finished a speed tune-up to Quizlet. Everything should work exactly the same. Except it's now much faster. We accomplished this with a bit of engineering trickery that forces browsers to download data as fast as they can, instead of waiting for some parts to download before loading other…