What communicate software are you guys using to talk to your language partners?

I always was a skype lover, but now I've seen so many bugs on it and many people telling me that they're migrating to other tools but I still think skype is one of the best ones. What communicate software are you guys using now?

Thanks for the replies.

Are there many languages schools in your city? Are they worthy the price?

Hi everybody!

I am from Brazil, one of the countries with a higher number of languages schools most of them english schools, but there is a very interesting fact about that.

Brazil is a country with more than 6000 languages schools (http://g1.globo.com/educacao/noticia/2013/11/brasil-sobe-em-ranking-de-ingles-mas-proficiencia-no-pais-ainda-e-baixa.html) and still lacks higher proficiency level. Of course the market takes advantage of the situation and gives the condition to the people make money with that.

I'd like to know if there are so many languages schools in other countries like Brazil and how you guys trust on those schools.

Thank you so much for reading this and for your time to respond my question.

Estoy a procurar sitios de revistas en español No soy mui bien con español y quiero mejorar, por eso estoy procurando por revistas en español. Tengo ese sitio http://literalmagazine.com, pero me gustaria de encontrar mais. Puedes me ajudar? Gracias.

Is there an alternative to verbling? I friend of mine told me that when he was at the beginning of his studies he looked hard for a tool or website where he could practice a simple conversation, I mean a short conversation using very simple vocabulary. After long time searching for it he found verbling.com. 
According to him that website was essential to practice simple vocabulary. It was basically a website where he connected his google account and using the hangouts was possible to talk to a group of people.
Today, I logged there to see how it was and I got surprised when I notice that the feature is no longer available. It is pity.

Does anyone knows other website with that feature? Thank you so much in advance.

Is there an alternative to verbling? I friend of mine told me that when he was at the beginning of his studies he looked hard for a tool or website where he could practice a simple conversation, I mean a short conversation using very simple vocabulary. After long time searching for it he found verbling.com. According to him that website was essential to practice simple vocabulary. It was basically a website where he connected his google account and using the hangouts was possible to talk to a group of people. Today, I logged there to see how it was and I got surprised when I notice that the feature is no longer available. It is pity. Does anyone knows other website with that feature? Thank you so much in advance.

Do you stop on each word you didn't understand when reading a book?

Hi, everyone!

Everytime I'm reading a book and I face a strange word I still keep reading it until the end of the paragraph to see if I can understand without stop just because one single word.

I do that because if you stop everytime to look for a word it is impossible to read a entire page and it becomes exhausting.

I'd like to see opinions about that. Do you guys do the same?

Doesn't matter what language the article talks about it is written in English. Why?

Of course that English language is the first language in terms of material and content, but I've seen a lot of articles about other languages written in English.

Wouldn't be good if a few articles about other languages were written in that language? I mean a German article in German, a Portuguese article in Portuguese and so on...

My settings are in English, but I don't know if it matter about the content showed in my page.

Have you guys had the same feeling about my observation?

How hard is a translator job?

I've talked to a lot of people about translate jobs and I was curious about how hard is this job.

I read on a website a translator's profile who promise to translate 800 words in 72 hours for U$$5,00. In this moment I thought, how hard should be a job like that? How someone can become a translator?

How do you do when you, translator, face a new word or expression? What about proofread? What is it and how is it done?

How much time do you think a professional translator must have?

Thank you for all of the answers.

Escuchando conversa en resturante Ayer yo estaba en un restaurante cuando yo escuché algunas personas hablando en español. Ellos hablaron a respeto del mosquito que estás tomando el sueño del brasileños, elles hablaron que ese problema no es un problema sencillo y que merece un atención en especial de las autoridades brasileñas. Este mosquito puede transmitir otras enfermedades. Durante su conversa yo puede realizar que ellos no estaban muy preocupados en estar acá porque a pesar del problemas con el mosquito ellos sabían que tienes algunos cuidados para evitar el contacto con lo mosquito. Gracias por las correcciones.