Language exchange communities
Recently there has been a spurt in the number of language exchange communities. Most of these web sites belong to the web 2.0 generation and offer opportunities to learn languages with native speakers in various countries: often free of cost. Some of them also support social networking features. One can meet language enthusiasts from other countries and mutually help each other to pick up or polish up the linguistic skills. The basic idea is borrowed from the pen pal system.
I have personally not tried any of the websites, but nevertheless I am a bit apprehensive about the integrated babel fish translator in many of them. Apparently the machine translator is capable of translating more than 34 languages and includes translators like “Apni Urdu translator”. Here are a few interesting websites:
http://www.mylanguageexchange.com
http://www.polyglot-learn-language.com
source: Panorama du web by Isabelle Dremeau
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