Chatting online

What is chat?On the Internet, chatting is talking to other people who are using the Internet at the same time we are.

Usually, this "talking" is the exchange of typed-in messages requiring one site as the repository for the messages (or "chat site") and a group of users who take part from anywhere on the Internet.

In some cases, a private chat can be arranged between two parties who meet initially in a group chat.

Chats can be ongoing or scheduled for a particular time and duration. Most chats are focused on a particular topic of interest and some involve guest experts or famous people who "talk" to anyone joining the chat. (Transcripts of a chat can be archived for later reference.)

Chats are conducted on online services (especially America Online), by bulletin board services, and by Web sites. Several Web sites, notably Talk City, exist solely for the purpose of conducting chats. Some chat sites such as Worlds Chat allow participants to assume the role or appearance of an avatar in a simulated or virtual reality environment.

Talk City and many other chat sites use a protocol called Internet Relay Chat.

A chat can also be conducted using sound or sound and video, assuming you have the bandwidth access and the appropriate programming.

Social criticismThere has been much criticism about what online chatting has done in today’s society. Many people are accusing it of replacing proper English with short hand with an almost completely new hybrid language.

HistoryThe first dedicated online chat service was the CompuServe CB Simulator in 1980, created by CompuServe executive Alexander "Sandy" Trevor in Columbus, Ohio. Ancestors include network chat software such as UNIX "talk" used in the 1970s.

Cultural impact

Despite being virtual, chat can spill into the outside world.[10] There can also be a strong sense of online identity leading to impression of subculture.[11] Compare Internet sociology.

Chats are valuable sources of various types of information, the automatic processing of which is the object of chat/text mining technologies

Online chat doesn't cost anything extra, as long as you have an Internet connection.

There are three commonly used types of chat. They are Instant Messaging, ICQ, and IRC.

Chatting online

What is chat?

On the Internet, chatting is talking to other people who are using the Internet at the same time we are.

Usually, this "talking" is the exchange of typed-in messages requiring one site as the repository for the messages (or "chat site") and a group of users who take part from anywhere on the Internet.

In some cases, a private chat can be arranged between two parties who meet initially in a group chat.

Chats can be ongoing or scheduled for a particular time and duration. Most chats are focused on a particular topic of interest and some involve guest experts or famous people who "talk" to anyone joining the chat. (Transcripts of a chat can be archived for later reference.)

HistoryThe first dedicated online chat service was the CompuServe CB Simulator in 1980, created by CompuServe executive Alexander "Sandy" Trevor in Columbus, Ohio. Ancestors include network chat software such as UNIX "talk" used in the 1970s.

I think that English should be the universal language because it’s one of the easiest languages in the world to learn, understand and speak.

English is the most widespread language in the world, almost everyone speaks it as a foreign language because we learn it at school. It’s one the most taught languages as a foreign language. Its vocabulary nears a million words. It’s the main language used on the Internet.

It’s spoken in lots of countries by millions of people and it is one of the languages of the European Union.

In my opinion, English is an interesting and easy language to learn and I think that everyone should learn English, because if we learn it, it will be easier to get a job or to study abroad. It’s a passport to the world.

“The Spanish Residence” is a movie about studying abroad. The main character is Xavier, an Economy student. He decides to apply for a European exchange programme called Erasmus. He goes to Barcelona to improve his knowledge of Spanish culture and language. He leaves his mother and girlfriend Martine and, at the airport, he meets a French doctor Jean-Michel and his wife, Anne-Sophie.

Later, he moves to an apartment, where he meets people from different countries: Wendy ( English), Alessandro (Italian), Lars (Danish) and Tobias (German). In the film, he makes new friends and falls in love with Anne-Sophie. When he returns to France, he decided being a writer instead of an economist.