Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6086 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin
| Message 1 of 45 09 October 2008 at 8:23am | IP Logged |
Hi,
The same-titled thread from the forum is a few years old and I'd like to hear the latest information on this type of tool for learning/speaking, so let's update this topic. What's your favorite online language exchange site?
Please give your reviews!
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dmg Diglot Senior Member Canada dgryski.blogspot.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 7012 days ago 555 posts - 605 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Dutch, Esperanto
| Message 2 of 45 18 October 2008 at 9:07am | IP Logged |
I just posted this comment in another thread, but realized that it's technically more appropriate to add it here too.
The Mixxer is a good Skype-based language exchange database. It lets you search for native and learning languages, and shows you if the other person is online on Skype.
I've done a couple of chats, and they all went well. I think the one problem with chats is finding stuff to talk about. There's another language exchange site called
My Language Exchange that I think has more members and a wider range of "exchange types" (pen pal, text chat, voice chat ...). It also has the advantage of having chat lesson plans that give you suggested topics, a list of questions to ask, and a timer to make sure the conversation is evenly split between your target language, and your native language (which is presumably the target language of your interlocutor).
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Aquedita Triglot Senior Member Poland myspace.com/aqueda_v Joined 6015 days ago 154 posts - 164 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese Studies: Mandarin
| Message 3 of 45 20 October 2008 at 6:08pm | IP Logged |
dmg wrote:
There's another language exchange site called
My Language Exchange that I think has more members and a wider range of "exchange types" (pen pal, text chat, voice chat ...). It also has the advantage of having chat lesson plans that give you suggested topics, a list of questions to ask, and a timer to make sure the conversation is evenly split between your target language, and your native language (which is presumably the target language of your interlocutor). |
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Yeah, but don't you have to pay to be a member who can access all the options?
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J-Learner Senior Member Australia Joined 6031 days ago 556 posts - 636 votes Studies: Yiddish, English* Studies: Dutch
| Message 4 of 45 21 October 2008 at 3:16am | IP Logged |
The only place I found that was usefull is italki.com.
There is a lot of Spanish, french, mandarin, German, etc.
I have even found speakers for Hebrew.
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peppelanguage Triglot Groupie ItalyRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5865 days ago 90 posts - 94 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, English Studies: French, Swedish
| Message 5 of 45 05 November 2008 at 8:51pm | IP Logged |
Here are some:
www.friendsabroad.com
www.mylanguageexchange.com
www.polyglot-learn-language.com
www.sharedtalk.com
www.unilang.org
www.palabea.net
http://www.tandem-schools.com/index.php
http://www.xlingo.com/
http://www.conlanger.com/
http://www.italki.com/
I didn't try the ones with http:// at the start...the others are good...the 1st is the one I suggest the most... the one where I met most people.. :)
P.S.Another useful website is www.byki.com that lets you download a software for flash cards...if you know how to use them and like this approach, an useful one :)
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peppelanguage Triglot Groupie ItalyRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5865 days ago 90 posts - 94 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, English Studies: French, Swedish
| Message 6 of 45 05 November 2008 at 8:51pm | IP Logged |
ahh there's also www.livemocha.com...with courses, reading, speaking and many things more...a good one too :)
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peppelanguage Triglot Groupie ItalyRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5865 days ago 90 posts - 94 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, English Studies: French, Swedish
| Message 7 of 45 04 December 2008 at 7:04pm | IP Logged |
edit: friendsabroad is closing....he moved to www.babbel.com ... nice ;)
I suggest it :)
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dmg Diglot Senior Member Canada dgryski.blogspot.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 7012 days ago 555 posts - 605 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Dutch, Esperanto
| Message 8 of 45 07 December 2008 at 8:31pm | IP Logged |
There's a page on the LearnAnyLanguage wiki listing some Language learning communities. It would be great if people could post some reviews of the sites they've used and liked (or, used and disliked).
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