Is It Possible to Improve Your Learning Language by Chatting?

@romo6770 (176)
Egypt
September 7, 2008 5:21pm CST
do you think that one can improve his new language ,that he still learning, by online chatting on messenger?
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4 responses
@youless (112586)
• Guangzhou, China
12 Sep 08
It's so possible. When you speak in a foreign language, you will feel tired soon because it's different from speaking with your native language. You can make a great progress if you practise the foreign language more such as chatting. I love China
@romo6770 (176)
• Egypt
12 Sep 08
i love china too :D
• United States
7 Sep 08
It can go both ways. It will help you learn words and sentence structure, but the not everyone on the internet uses proper English or (proper usage in any language) especially when they chat. So yes it will help, but you should also practice correct sentence structure, etc.
@romo6770 (176)
• Egypt
8 Sep 08
yea right, but having chat friends via language exchange sites will be OK , i think they will use the language properly. thanks for paying our attention to this point.
@James72 (26790)
• Australia
7 Sep 08
Most definitely. To type the words you have to think them in your head extra hard so the chances of memory retention are very high. We all learn in different ways and using a new language in a chat scenario also adds a visual component as well as being very proactive compared to just reading alone. The ideal scenario is to have the chance to speak the language in a real environment but this is of course not always possible!
@romo6770 (176)
• Egypt
8 Sep 08
yeah right thanks for participation James72
@gtdonna (1738)
7 Sep 08
Yes you cna improve your new language skills by chatting since it forces you to type in the other language. Also try read the daily newspapers in that language, reading books in that language and it would eb great if you can actually speak to a few people who speak the language so that you cna also speak it correctly.
@romo6770 (176)
• Egypt
7 Sep 08
you added nice points thank you