Thank you for including GabMail (http://www.freegabmail.com) in your list of The Best Sites to Practice Speaking English. Thanks, especially, for giving us an Honorable Mention.

When we designed GabMail, we made the decision to allow users to send and receive email with their own email client. This keeps all the users’ email in one place rather than having text email in one place and video email in another. We also did not feel comfortable asking the users of GabMail to upload their address books as some other sites do.

If any of your readers would like to practice speaking English with us, feel free to send a GabMail to: Comments at FreeGabMail dot com.

Take care,
Paul Langer

Thanks for another great list. I showed Blabberize to my students and here is what my student Robert created:

http://www.blabberize.com/creation/playBlabber/13679

We are all really excited to try out the sites that you are listing for us. Thanks for all your hard work.

Diane

Thanks for the Livemocha mention! Great list – I just came across Voice Thread this week. It’s a great concept.

Something we’ve noticed is that people’s willingness to contribute speaking exercises is contingent on their proficiency, confidence, and shyness. We’re always looking for ways of making the site more accessible, relevant, and fun for students (some of these sites, especially the talking lama, have done a great job).

Also, since we rely on the community to have native speakers assist learners, we need to create a framework to allow native speakers to provide meaningful/ actionable feedback.

Livemocha always welcomes feedback/ suggestions to improve the service. Everyone should feel free to drop me a note if they’d like help incorporating Livemocha into their classroom setting (or if you just have suggestions on how to improve the service) – bryan [at] livemocha.com

Bryan (livemocha.com)