Verbling Links Up Language Learners With Native Speakers Through Live Video Chat

“It’s a well known fact that people improve foreign language skills when interacting and communicating with other people who speak the same foreign language. Y Combinator-backed Verbling is launching today as a easy to use online conversation exchange for language learners, leveraging in-browser video chat.

The site allows you to sign up and choose the language you want to learn. Since the site doesn’t have a massive userbase just yet, Verbling hosts sessions as specific times daily (12 pm PT and 7 pm PT) where people can show up and chat with each other. Once you join the site during a session time, you are automatically paired with a language speaker who is fluent in the language you wish to learn. The site encourages users to talk to a number of different speakers within each session.”

I just go on sharedtalk.com and pick someone roughly my age and get to chatting. Plenty of Japanese people on there.

Interesting idea... Too bad about the list of languages. Having to pick it at the start is preventing me from even signing up, incase they get Japanese later.

I think it might be even more interesting if they let you pick a topic before the match as well, so you can guarantee to get at least 1 topic you both like.

wccrawford Wrote:Interesting idea... Too bad about the list of languages. Having to pick it at the start is preventing me from even signing up, incase they get Japanese later.

I think it might be even more interesting if they let you pick a topic before the match as well, so you can guarantee to get at least 1 topic you both like.

You can sign up with Japanese as a requested language: http://verbling.com/language_signups/new