{"id":696,"date":"2008-06-30T14:21:44","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T13:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/30\/edufire\/"},"modified":"2008-06-30T14:21:44","modified_gmt":"2008-06-30T13:21:44","slug":"edufire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=696","title":{"rendered":"eduFire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/edufire.com\/\">eduFire<\/a>, a language learning site I heard about recently. It&#8217;s designed to bring together language learners and tutors via the web using what they call &#8216;live video language learning&#8217;. Tutors can set their own fees, a small proportion of which is retained by the eduFire people as service charge, and students can try sample video lessons and talk to other students before deciding on a tutor. The most popular languages are Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.<\/p>\n<p>eduFire are giving away free one-hour tutoring sessions for readers of this blog. The first ten people to email <a href=\"mailto:freetutoring@edufire.com\">freetutoring@edufire.com<\/a> will receive a coupon code that allows their session to be complimentary.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/06\/my-favourite-kanji\/\">My favourite kanji<\/a> competition, by the way. I said that the closing date for entries is today, but as I&#8217;ve only received two entries so far, I&#8217;ll extend that to the end of July.<\/p>\n<p>Apologies for the lack of language quiz yesterday. This was due to server problems. As I know you enjoy these quizzes &#8230; here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/blog\/quiz300608.mp3\">recording<\/a> in a mystery language. Can you guess or do you know which language it is?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>eduFire, a language learning site I heard about recently. It&#8217;s designed to bring together language learners and tutors via the web using what they call &#8216;live video language learning&#8217;. Tutors can set their own fees, a small proportion of which is retained by the eduFire people as service charge, and students can try sample video [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-language-learning","category-quiz-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}