Planning of online platform for language learning takes shape

[Francis Hult]

eGov Monitor

 

Planning of online platform for language learning takes shape

 

A group of international experts gathers today in Shanghai, China, to discuss the feasibility of a Cyber Network for Learning Languages, an online portal to web resources for learning languages.

 

Opening the meeting this morning, UNESCO's Assistant Director-General, Abdul Waheed Khan, said that the initiative, which was launched by the Chinese Government during the meeting of UNESCO's Executive Board in October 2008, is "very timely indeed since it has the great potential to contribute to widen the access to the Internet and to promote its language diversity at the same time".

 

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