Wen Ronghui, founder of Talkmate, made a speech on the launch cerenomy of The UNESCO-Talkmate Partnership for the development of World Atlas of Languages held in Beijing on July 8, 2016. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

The company, which was founded in March 2014 with an angel investment of six million yuan ($897,000), claims that any learner could master a totally new language by studying courses designed under the logic of ICOC for 200 hours on its website or its app.

Wen, also CEO of Talkmate, admitted at a roundtable discussion called Languages Matters for Development that it is a challenge to mobilize resources to complete thousands of courses as the 60 courses already in use only take up one percent of the 6,000 languages in the world.