I am a community teacher, not a language partner, but here is what I think. Voice chat consumes a lot of a person's free time that could otherwise be spent playing games, playing with pets, spending time with kids and family, going to see a movie, playing sports, or hanging out with real live friends. You want this person to devote a lot of his/her free time to you on a regular basis (I assume you wish to learn English on a regular basis?). Unless that person is a serious, dedicated learner who wants to learn your native language as passionately as you want to learn English, he is not going to "waste" his time with you. Some of these "language partners" seem to be here only to try to find a boyfriend or girlfriend, so they are not interested in learning a language at all. Even if they were, they most likely are not qualified to teach you a language either. I have had many students ask to be my language partner. I offer to answer their questions and talk to them using FREE text chat anytime, but no one ever accepts my offer. Students only want FREE voice chat that consumes other people's free time. Free voice chat is likely to talk about the weather or sports or some general topic that eventually becomes boring. It will NOT help you improve your English unless BOTH parties specifically focus on learning grammar, idioms, new vocabulary and the proper construction of advanced sentence structures, which will almost certainly NOT happen. Therefore, you will very likely be disappointed in your progress if you hope to achieve much using FREE voice chat during irregularly scheduled free voice chats with a variety of people who do NOT care about YOUR learning. The best way for you to improve your English is to do it on a regular basis via paid lessons with a GOOD teacher. A GOOD teacher will want to spend time with you, will care about your learning, and will have the grammar knowledge to correct your errors. We have a saying: "You get what you pay for."

I have the same problem.And I want to have a long-term language partner.

Fortunately, I have found several partners to talk with. Throught two years I have talked with many people and I realized there are several kind of people who use italki. As Lee Wright said, some people just want to flirt and others do not are commited to learn your lenguage. I think it also depends on what your mother tonge is. Mine is spanish and there are many people who want to learn it. One year ago I wrote the entry "How to find a partner on italki?", it could be useful to you: https://www.italki.com/entry/562164 I hope you find a committed partner soon!

Because they don't want to talk with you, or they don't really want to talk with you anymore, and it's easier and less harmful to not reply rather than telling it to you upfront. To look for more reasons is a waste of time, which is better spent reaching for more people, who might want to talk with you.

también tengo el misma problema . la gente son muy ocupados , puede ser o no quieren hablar