You hate chat, mmmmmm......Maybe because you are chating with inappropriate people....Peope that you feel bored with them ...People that you can learn nothing from them because they don't have much to give, or don't want to give at all....Maybe because you are suffering from surficial, shallow conversations about what's your name? Are you single or married? Do you like white or black ?..... About me, I think that listening to music and trying to analyze the lyrics, watching movies without looking at the translation below and reading newspaper or books edited in that language are more useful ways to improve my language.

i'm also hate this method to improve my language,so i decided to read books and listen to programms,at the same time i see that talking with native people is more important than this methods,so i try to use myself on talking by the chat.and really i hope that there is another method instead of it................

i don't hate chat. it allows me to multi-task, like watch tv, listen to music, grade student papers, cook, etc. all at once. i HATE voice or video chat with my entire being. 1) i don't want people to see/hear me, and 2) it's annoying and wastes my time. a thing i usually do is chat less and provide resources. i give my chat friends some "homework" or activities to do to practice english. for example, i ask them to watch a tv show, of which i provide the link for them, and then ask them to write down words they don't understand or write a summary/response (which my students do a lot). and later, i help them with questions they may have. kind of like "so you want to learn from me, ok, so here's some homework for you, go do it, and i'll check up on you later." that's my attitude about language exchange. my chinese friends gave me tang dynasty era poems to translate to english. it was hard and i basically quit after a while, but you get my drift.

if u hate chat and u didn't see it a good way to improve ur language u can read books or join courses but chating with native people is very important for practicing this language although it's booring to u.

you can by mail exchang, i Experienced this way ...it is really helpfull it will be by prepear home work on mail and send it to who help you in this language improvment,then your teacher or who help you will send to you the correction of this home work and suggest to you another home worke... but i think also chating will be helpfull if you got good teacher can manage the time..otherwise will you wast alot of time good luck a_a