Unless otherwise noted, these are web links to web chat sites (meaning that you will only need a browser, although some require browsers with Java, in other words, later versions of Netscape and Internet Explorer. IRCs (Internet Relay Chat) requires the use of IRC software (there are a number of sites where one can obtain the software you need; see the following Yahoo section: http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/Chat/IRC/Software/). MUDs (Multiple-User Dialogues) and MOOs (Multiple-User Dialogue, Object Oriented) typically use Telnet and/or additional software (again, check the Introductory pages linked below).

Chinese Cyber City Chat Room: http://www.cccchat.com/

China Chat: http://www.globalvillager.com/ChinaChat/index.cfm

French IRC channels: (available through undernet (dallas.tx.uis.undernet.org) (IRC software needed)

#francais

List of German MUDs: http://www.mud.de/DML/andere.html

German IRC channels (available through undernet (dallas.tx.uis.undernet.org) (IRC software needed)

#berlin

#hamburg

#hamburg

Italian IRC channel (available through undernet (dallas.tx.uis.undernet.org) (IRC software needed)

#italia

Russian web chat: http://chat.weekend.ru/

Russian IRC channels (available through undernet (dallas.tx.uis.undernet.org) (IRC software needed) (Roman letters, although both English and Russian are used)

#russia

#russian

Spanish: http://www.yahoo.com/text/Society_and_Culture/Chat/Spanish_Language/

Spanish: http://www.mol.es/Spanish_irc.htm

Spanish MOO: Mundo Hispano: http://www.umsl.edu/~moosproj/mundo.html

Spanish IRC channels (available through undernet (dallas.tx.uis.undernet.org) (IRC software needed)

#español

#mexico

#puertorico

#españa