italki.com

• Thematic framework: Cyberspace
• Geographical outreach : International
• Types of project: Capacity-building
  
  
• Main responsibles:
  Eric Pang, Toffler Niemuth, Li Qi
  88 Caoxi North Road,
  Charity Building Ste. 404-405
  Shanghai
  China 200030

Summary of thez activities
Italki is a website. Its goal is to help people around the world share and teach others their native language. Italki has openly-edited webpages (wiki style). With these, Italki hopes that the fundamentals of each and every one of the world's languages no matter how small will be preserved for anyone to learn online. Native speakers of these more obscure languages can create pages about their native language that others can edit, learn from, and add to. Italki believes that this will play a critical role for less popular languages by providing the means to preserve those languages.

Italki also facilitates the learning of foreign languages between any language pair, for example, native speaker of Urdu learning Finnish. In traditional language study, the learner must first know one of the world's main languages, for example, English or French. However, with Italki, starting from any base language learning any foreign language is possible.

Main partners
Yongyue Jiang (co-founder)
Kevin Chen (co-founder)
Talk English, Shanghai