Pearson partners with language website Livemocha

LONDON, March 10 (Reuters) - Pearson (PSON.L), the world's largest educational publisher, plans to co-develop a conversational English language-learning service for consumers with fast-growing online language community Livemocha. Livemocha (http://www.livemocha.com) provides free, basic lessons and teams up learners and native speakers in 12 languages from its 2 million users globally to help each other with writing and pronunciation. Pearson and Livemocha plan to build a series of online conversational English courses that will be offered as premium, paid-for content on Livemocha starting in August. It will be Pearson's first venture into direct-to-consumer online products for English-language learning. "By joining forces with an industry leader like Livemocha,... [read full story]                    

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