Hello, all. I've just started Fluenz French (just received my red box this afternoon). I wanted to let everyone know (assuming you don't know already) that there is a website you can go to where you can find a contact who speaks whatever language you are learning. It's called CONVERSATIONEXCHANGE.COM. I saw the posts here with people looking for people to practice their French with and thought I'd share this info. It's a free service. You just set up an account and click search. You select the language you want your contact to speak then select the language they want to learn. After that you select what country you want your contact to be in and can even select a specific town. Finally, you indicate how you would like to make contact (face-to-face, email pen pal or chat software like Skype) and click search. I've used this and made one contact in Italy who is helping me with Italian. I've also been able to find people who live in the US but are originally from other countries and can help you with their native language (I highly recommend this approach so you don't have to worry about the inconvenience time differences). I've already found several contacts in the US for French. Check it out sometime. It may come in handy