italki.com brings back and old friend: the Language Marketplace

The title of the latest italki Press release is quite a statement:

italki Partners with Eleutian to Offer US‐Certified Teachers and SpeakENG Content “Powered by PearsonĀ®”

Pearson, does it ring a bell? Exactly, Pearson announced a partnership with Livemocha a couple of month ago. You can read my post about it over here.

But to me the fact that italki is calling themselves “the italki Marketplace” is even more interesting. So lets have a look on the news from Shanghai.

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