Jan 09 2008
SharedTalk Language Exchange Community
Brought to you by the same people who brought Rosetta Stone language education software, SharedTalk is a highly-interactive community where people from all nations of the world can come together and learn languages from each other. Users create an account and a profile on the site detailing their language interests and experience, and the system makes it easy for them to match up with other users who know the target language, and vice versa.
There is a text chat platform, with chat rooms for several languages, as well as a “multi-language” room for conversation in any language. In addition, when I logged into the chat system, I received several requests for one-on-one mutual learning. I got to have conversations with native speakers of Spanish (I was working on my Spanish) who wanted to learn English. It was a win-win situation.
For those who don’t care for the chat room environment, messages can be sent e-mail style on the website to other SharedTalk users. Language partners can be found with an easy-to-use search box. Searching for Spanish partners brought up an impressive list of over 8,400. So, there’s no shortage of people to interact with. You can read their profiles, where they’re from, and if you’re interested in contacting them you can do so with the on-site message system.
Also, there is a voice chat system. It’s not very popular yet, but it’s still new, and I think there is a lot of potential for it. Voice chat would be excellent for working on one’s listening comprehension and accent. I have heard of people doing this via Skype, and reporting it as essential to their language success.
SharedTalk is completely free, and is a neat community with a nicely-designed, modern website.
when I enter sharedtalk,it says ” data base error” so I cant enter shared talk.what should I do.please help me.I really want to use sharedtalk very much because its very good web address to make a practice for english.please Im waiting your help.
Hmm, it’s working fine for me now. Maybe it was unavailable when you tried to access it?
i tried to go to sharedtalk and it is not working when will it be fixed if it will be at all? i really loved the site it helped me to learn persian
I tried to log into Sharetalk today and I got the message that I was banned from this chat. Well, I do not know what happened to make you decide to ban me from the chat but I reckon I have some ideas and let me tell you what I think about it: the operator who banned me must have gotten a wrong idea of me since he or she has banned the wrong person. If you ban a person that has always taken this chat seriously and has always helped people learning a language by correcting him or her or teaching grammar, and then let other people that come here just to loath stay there, then you have understood nothing of this chat. At any rate, this is a shame and if you banned me because I used the word “bitch” then you have to ban another guy and not me because I was just reporting what he said to my friend without any reason. And to finish I would very much like to know who is this operator that ban people without giving them any reason and without having valid reason to do that. So I claim that this operator send me a detailed email telling me why he decided to ban me. Roberto Petroboni
Roberto,
Sorry to hear that you were ‘banned’ from SharedTalk, but I don’t have any control over SharedTalk, so this wouldn’t be the best place to file a complaint. Try going to SharedTalk.com and clicking the ‘contact us’ link at the bottom of the page.
You can’t complain to SharedTalk if you’re banned (”database error”). Once you have been banned, you cannot even access their web site, and there is no “complaint” feature accessible. There is no warning, no block function to screen rude people from a chat room, and SharedTalk will not answer e-mail asking for clarification. Obviously, this means there is no way to reinstate your account once they decide they don’t like you.
By the way, they ban the computer you’re using, all users, apparently forever (or until they decide to change their policy). So someone other than you can diss someone, get banned, and you can kiss your account goodbye too.
If you’ve been banned, it’s better just to go to another site that has a fair set of rules and customer service. There are several good ones out there, where you can actually discuss slang words.
If you’re thinking of using SharedTalk, or already using it, try to find alternate ways of contacting your friends before you get banned.
Hello Mark!
Good works but referred to the wrong person since I did not decide to log into Sharedtalk to go and find people that taught me slang words or to pick fights and the like that most likely would make me end up with being banned. I have always used Sharedtalk as seriously as I could and I have always helped people learn languages by teaching them languages and correcting their mistakes. So if people at Sharedtalk ban those guys that take this linguistic chat seriously and help people and then allow other arrogant people in then I have a very hard time understanding them. What’s more, I think I was banned only because I was telling a youngster that he did not have to use a bad word referring to my friend and if you get banned only because you try to stand by somebody then there must be something wrong in there. And I still have a hard time believing that I was banned and not the immature youngster that was discussing with me. So, as I told you, good words the ones you used, referring back to my email, but not so appropriate considering that I am not at all the person that you depicted in your email. Have a nice time. Bye now