Penfriends, keypals and chats
Advice
International Tandem Network - you work together with a learning partner from another country - by telephone, e-mail or other media
Shared Talk - Shared Talk brings together language learners from all over the world and allows them to gain by learning and teaching each other simultaneously using voice-chat and text-chat! Run by Rosetta Stone.
Warning to all parents: please make sure that you monitor your child's use of chats and dicussion forums. People participating in such discussions may not be using their own identies, and may have ulterior motives.
LINKS (in alphabetical order)
Choose your topic and chat in many languages - including Arabic, English, German, Japanese, Spanish, Chinese, French, Italian and Russian. Downloadable software.
Huitalk - multi-lingual chat, forum, book reviews and articles
Reader Arabic Computing Mailing List
Yahoo Clubs Many chat
rooms. You can also start your own.