Italki.com

Infobox Website
name = italki.com



caption = Italki.com mainpage
url = [http://www.italki.com/ www.italki.com]
commercial = Yes
type = Social Networking Site
language = English, Spanish (Castellano), Arabic, Korean, Swedish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Bahasa (Indonesian), Polish, Hindi, Thai, and Chinese (Traditional and Simplified)
registration = Required for contacting members
owner = italki Inc.
launch date = December 2006
current status = active
revenue =
slogan = Language Exchange & Learning Community

italki is a language learning website, with social networking features. The company is based in Shanghai, China. [ [http://www.italki.com/static/about.htm italki - Language Exchange and Learning Community ] ] italki was founded by American and Chinese entrepreneurs.

Features
People can use the site's search feature to find language partners; members will search for people who are native speakers of the language they learning and are wishing to learn the native language of the user. This helps both users as they can gain experience. There is also an answers section where users can post language related questions for other users to answer. [http://www.italki.com/answers/] . italki has socially built language learning textbooks ["Italki Launches Socially Built Language Textbooks", Sean P. Aune, Mashable, http://mashable.com/2008/05/06/italki-language-textbooks/, May 6, 2008] . italki has the largest wiki for language learning on the web ["italki, Building The Largest Community And Wiki For Language Learning", Gang Lu, Mobinode, http://www.mobinode.com/?p=370, May 18, 2008] .

Community
The website currently has over 400,000 registered members, from over 100 different countries. The South China Morning Post revealed italki's user traffic:

About 20 per cent of its users are from the mainland and the rest spread across the globe, including 7 per cent from the United States, 4 per cent in India and 2 per cent in France ["Social networking sites take language learning out of classroom", Sherman So, South China Morning Post, http://www.scmp.com/, July 8, 2008.] .

Team

* Yongyue Jiang — CEO
* Eric Pang — President & COO

Directors
* Yongyue Jiang
* Kevin Chen
* William Bao Bean
* Stephen Huang

Advisors
* Tom Soohoo
* Dr. Dongdong Chen (Academic advisor)

References

External links

* [http://www.italki.com italki official website]
* [http://blog.italki.com italki official blog]
* [http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1340000334/post/980026098.html?nid=3714 italki: language learning 2.0]