{"id":619,"date":"2010-02-11T11:24:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T11:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=619"},"modified":"2010-02-26T15:29:30","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T15:29:30","slug":"chatroulette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/11\/chatroulette\/","title":{"rendered":"ChatRoulette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/09\/language-exchanges-for-kids\/\">last post<\/a>, I talked about language exchanges, and mentioned using the internet to \u2018exchange\u2019 languages with native speakers.<\/p>\n<p>Serendipitously, I\u2019ve just heard of a relatively new way of connecting with people all over the world. <a href=\"www.chatroulette.com\/\">ChatRoulette<\/a> is a website that is a mix of game and social interaction site. Users log on, and their website and microphone are activated. You are then presented with random strangers from around the globe, and you can either choose to chat to them, or skip to the next person. On the flip side, they can also choose whether to chat to you or not!<\/p>\n<p>With around 10,000 worldwide users so far, ChatRoulette can\u2019t yet rival <a href=\"www.skype.com\/\">Skype<\/a> for connections. The randomness also means you may see some things you are not quite prepared for (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/epicenter\/2010\/02\/five-reasons-why-chatroulette-is-addictive-and-worth-a-try\/#ixzz0gT4hVHWr\">Wired<\/a>\u2019s piece for more info!). So, no guarantees on improving your language abilities, but most users say that the thing they most enjoy is talking to someone they otherwise never would.<\/p>\n<p>Have you used ChatRoulette? What have your experiences been?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my last post, I talked about language exchanges, and mentioned using the internet to \u2018exchange\u2019 languages with native speakers. Serendipitously, I\u2019ve just heard of a relatively new way of connecting with people all over the world. ChatRoulette is a website that is a mix of game and social interaction site. Users log on, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,40,16],"tags":[603,599,390,602,604,601,600],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-language-acquisition","category-technology","tag-chat","tag-chatroulette","tag-internet","tag-language-exchange","tag-online-chat","tag-online-language-learning","tag-social-interaction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":621,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions\/621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}