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Apr 13, 2013 - 03:19 PM
This is hit and miss situation if you have your expectation right you will be OK. Most of these people want to exchange language practice and this is usually free but some websites charge you for allowing you to contact people belonging to the website. Some want to sell you cheap lessons. My advise is just try it, you will meet interesting people and practice real language, I am learning spanish and had a chance to talk to people from Argentina, Chile and Spain. As long as you do not exchange personal info you are safe, nothing to lose and a lot to gain from it. Conversationexchange is good and free for this purpose. I also have a teacher from Mexico that I pay for lessons, it is also a very good experience. By the way there are teachers in Mexico who teach French too!