The folks at ChinesePod (which I praised highly in 2006 here) have released another Web 2.0 learning site for Spanish: SpanishSense.

The Economist gets what's important about this:

In the past, when language instruction—along with haircuts and massages—was a “non-tradable” sector of the economy, many people would not have found a native Mandarin speaker as a teacher in their town at all. Now they need only a broadband connection.