A strange experience on Italki

Hello, how are you? I have signed up on italki for more than one months now. But the fact is that, I came on  joined Italki to improve my pronounciation because it is not so good, yet. When I discuss with my penpals, everything is alright until I ask them to have a video chat with me. I wonder why they are reluctant to have a chat video chat. discussion Please tell me how you manage to benefit from your experience here on Italki. I hope you would give me some tips to help me find out how I could learn from this chatroom quickly. (Don't forget to provide a correction if you are a native english speaker)

Chat and discussion are similar, it would be redundant if you say video chat discussion.

Chat video should be video chat.

I agree with what Christine said. First you have to develop friendship and you should show your photo instead of Will Smith's. You can still learn a language without video chat, you can just ask them to call you or you can call them without video. I benefit from Italki by taking lessons with teachers. There are many teachers that offer lessons at a reasonable price.

A strange experience on Italki

Hello. How are you? I have been signed up on italki for more than one month now. I came on Italki to improve my pronounciation, because right now it is not very good.  When I talk/chat with my penpals, everything is alright until I ask them to have a video chat with me. I wonder why they are reluctant to have a video chat/discussion over video. Please tell me how you benefit from your experience here on Italki.  I hope you will give me some tips to help me learn from this chatroom quickly.

(Don't forget to provide a correction if you are a native English speaker!)

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And a tip - your name suggests you are a man, and if your penpals are women, they may be reluctant to start video chatting right away with a strange guy they hardly know.  It might help for you to put up a picture of yourself.  Why hide behind Will Smith?  Show your penpals your face and they will see that you are a real person.

As others have pointed out above, you also need to build up a relationship first.  Remember that you shouldn't expect to have someone help you with your pronounciation if you have nothing to offer them in return!  How can you help your penpals?  ...practicing conversation in French, or correcting their essays.  Good luck.