Many e learning project researchers and managers agree upon the need of having the learners work together as a community of learning. "Co-operation", "community", as well as "communicate" has to do with "having something in common". Within a multi-origins group of learners and lecturers, people have a reduced version of the working language in common. But is language itself, as a set of words, the only way for understanding each others? I'll propose to consider what learners from the Large

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... e and Mediterranean area may have in common "before", even if they are not aware of. Then I shall consider the process in which they construct a common set of reference texts through browsing the web. The actual means and tools for retrieving are compared with the larger capabilities of the semantic web.