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italki: language learning 2.0
May 6, 2008
In the spirit of the open source movement and wonderful world of Web 2.0, comes
italki a social networking portal for language learning. The site currently boasts more than 200,000 members and addresses the needs of learners of a wide variety of languages.
On italki, you can find a
language partner; join
groups; ask questions of the community in italki's
Answers area; grab, share, and contribute
knowledge in a variety of wikis on various languages and levels. In
Files, a Spanish language learner, for instance, will find a
Spanish (PDF textbook), a
Spanish Verb Table or a chart of
Spanish Idiomatic Expressions.
The site is rich with free textbooks, learning guides, charts, videos, pictures,sound and text.
Though I probably won't let my K12ers loose on this social networking platform just yet, I will send my teachers--both World Language and ESL/ELL--there for resources and connections. The potential is very cool!
Posted by Joyce Valenza on May 6, 2008 | Comments (0)
