About italki
italki.com is an online destination for learning foreign languages. italki connects people from around the world in a friendly community to learn from each other. italki helps people meet online to do free language exchanges. italki also helps students connect with teachers for paid online lessons. In addition, italki has many free language learning features, such as questions and answers, group discussions, and multimedia materials for self-study.
italki is both a social network and a marketplace. The social network helps bring people together to communicate and learn. The marketplace gives students, teachers, and companies the abililty to transact online.
italki was created with the belief that the internet is radically changing the way people learn foreign languages. The internet is removing previous barriers to learning so that everyone can have access to language partners, language teachers and language materials. With resources like italki, we hope that anyone, anywhere in the world can learn a foreign language.
Mission Statement
italki helps people learn foreign languages. italki intends to become the leading platform for online language learning by using Web 2.0 concepts to provide users with the most complete language learning tools available on the net.
italki.com's features include:
- Connecting native speakers to practice speaking a foreign language
- Helping language teachers offer their expertise to anyone, anywhere in the world
- Offering multimedia and one-on-one lessons for English (and other languages coming soon)
- Giving language learners the ability to communicate online in text, voice, and even video
- Using the community to answer language questions
- Developing a platform for sharing free open-source language learning materials (download and upload)
- Recommending other resources on the web
- Providing a space for people from around the world to experience and learn about other cultures
