www.sharedtalk.com is good for text messaging. There's also voice chat.

bodhisamaya wrote:

I use www.japancupid.com

And if you do well you get a free visa!

BTW, check also this:

Palabea
     In Palabea you can find online and offline language exchanges and virtual classrooms.

The Mixxer

The Mixxer is a free educational community for language learners and teachers to find a language partner for a language exchange. The language partner is someone who speaks the language you study as their native language and is studying your native language. As a member of the Mixxer community, you can communicate with your language partner via Skype to practice speaking. You can also submit documents and ask native speakers to correct your writing.

MyHappyPlanet

MyHappyPlanet is the home for people learning languages:

    * Send and receive messages with native speakers around the world.
    * Learn about cultures and languages through lessons created by our members.
    * Watch videos uploaded by our members in multiple languages.

sharedtalk.com is great for meeting people to later skype or msn with, i met my fiancee on there.

conversationexchange.com is good for meeting people at like a cafe or something. i had an opportunity to meet 3-4 people through that one.

There's Polyglot:

http://www.polyglot-learn-language.com/

tt4you.com is a language exchange community, I think it is hosted in Korea, but there are many different nationalities on there. There are a lot of young people on there 18 -25, but there are also some older people, I don't get the feeling that it is a hook up site.

cangy wrote:

canji wrote:

Transtic wrote:

I think this thread should be sticky...

what does sticky mean?

it means this info should be added to the wiki

There is no wiki.

cangy wrote:

canji wrote:

Transtic wrote:

I think this thread should be sticky...

what does sticky mean?

it means this info should be added to the wiki

Whaat?

It means the thread stays at the top of the sub-forum for everyone to see.