Social-Networking Site Starts Wikis for Language Education

Not willing to cough up a couple hundred bucks for Rosetta Stone software? Check out italki Knowledge, a free online language-learning, open-textbook site designed for the Web 2.0 crowd.

Founded in 2006, italki is a social network based around 90 different language-learning communities. Starting this month, it is starting wikis for each language intended to serve as open-source textbooks.

For other open-source resources on learning foreign languages, check out Wikiversity’s foreign language learning page or Web German’s Foreign Languages page.—Catherine Rampell

Categories: Teaching, Distance-Education