May 7, 2008
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
Posted on Wednesday May 7, 2008 | Permalink |Comments
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What’s availaboe in French?
— Dale Gorman May 7, 03:57 PM #
Catherine,
Thanks for the mention about italki. We’re really excited about Knowledge and its potential. Already, there is a lot of content for language learning.
Dale,
Currently, there are 74 Knowledge pages (wikis) for learning French (and Knowledge only went live on Tuesday!). There are 24 uploaded files for studying French and 11 files for studying other languages using French as a base language.
Cheers! Ciao! Adios! 再见！Au revoir! さようなら! Tschüss! пока! Tchau! جانب !
— Toffler, italki May 8, 04:07 AM #
The “wikiversity-link” is pathetic. A publication like the Chronicle should not link to sites that don’t fulfill even the most basic requirements.
— Dante May 8, 08:52 AM #
I agree with Dante, the language learning materials I glanced at are dangerously inadequate at best-where is the audio component, for example? There is something called LiveMocha that at least has that.
— Leslie May 8, 09:30 AM #
i wanna find new friends
— tahlis May 12, 07:50 PM #