To learn through osmosis, I visited a few Spanish chat rooms today. My favorite was Espanglish Chat because it’s made specifically for Spanish and English learners. But I found that chat rooms are not the best method to learn Spanish; between the typos and Spanish internet slang, I hardly knew what people were saying!
That said, it’s still good practice. Spanish chat rooms let you sit in on real conversations without feeling awkward, and you get to see examples of many common expressions.
Besides, Spanish internet slang can be fun when it isn’t confusing. For example, you can tell the Spanish speakers from the learners like me, because they type “jaja” instead of “haha”. (But “lol” seems to be universal.)
So even though I had trouble understanding them, I met a couple nice people and we exchanged instant messenger screen names to practice Spanish and English together. As long as I don’t get sick of my new friends and block them, I’m sure I’ll learn a lot. 
One thing that’s missing from chat room learning is listening/speaking. Maybe some of your new friends use Skype and would chat with you that way.
Yeah, that’s true. Then again, I’m kinda shy about voice chats… Though that’s probably why I should try it more, right?
I wonder what sorts of group voice chats there are for Spanish speakers/learners. That’d be worth researching!
Yeah, there are a few conversational groups out there. If you go to Wikispaces.com, there is a Spanish conversation group. Here’s the link:
http://spanishconversation.wikispaces.com/
Also, once you’re ready to do one-on-one chats with native speakers, you can find some good people over at The Mixxer. (www.language-exchanges.org)
Happy chatting!
Thanks for those links, Voices! I’ll check them out.
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I tend to agree with espanglishchat.com! As one who isn’t all that new with chat rooms, I have become somewhat particular and tend to select those where I feel comfortable, especially when you enter with good intentions which, in my case, wishing to practice with native speakers. But then, there are only mind games, filth talk, bashing, and outright sex invitations. And … one HAS to be quite young of he/she is neglected. I hate that type of environment and am still trying to find “just the right” room!!! More of your suggestions is much appreciated guys!!!
I agree… I’m studying to become an English teacher and need to practise to gain fluency and vocabulary. I’ve been wasting my time on chatrooms… If you want to practise some Spanish we could arrange to do some chatting in both languages.
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