This one is actually well done. It is something like I wish to develop - but more in the aspect of a social network with live teachers that can interact with students or where student can interact with students.
With VoIP, webcams and Internet chat, etc. this is all possible. Sometime people would exchange time (say someone learning English in China would like to talk to an someone who speaks English but wants to learn Chinese) or they may exchange for small fees, etc.
This is one of my bigger ideas. It would combine a social network platform like Ning and mash it with something like Moodle (Open Source E-learning system - www.moodle.org).

I tried finding funding for this, but it seems...

This one is actually well done. It is something like I wish to develop - but more in the aspect of a social network with live teachers that can interact with students or where student can interact with students.
With VoIP, webcams and Internet chat, etc. this is all possible. Sometime people would exchange time (say someone learning English in China would like to talk to an someone who speaks English but wants to learn Chinese) or they may exchange for small fees, etc.
This is one of my bigger ideas. It would combine a social network platform like Ning and mash it with something like Moodle (Open Source E-learning system - www.moodle.org).

I tried finding funding for this, but it seems now one has interest in funding this idea - even with specs and rough business plan sketched out. The common response is that people just are not that much into learning lanaguages. I however thing there is a huge market globally - as most other countries (outside the US) really do want to learn.

Oh - well - maybe I will find some time to just make it happen on my own. Would have been nice to have angel money to get a small team together to crank something out....