Soziety.com - You’ll Never Talk Alone

SoZiety is the fun way to improve your ability to speak in various foreign languages. Their main service is connecting people trying to practice their language skills via Skype to interact and learn from using the language directly, instead of paying for lessons and materials. There are other services available as well, such as a flash cards game, where you can test your knowledge at translating various words into other languages, groups that you can create based on whatever terms you want, and chat rooms.

You can add text or a document to the site and ask for a translation. If it’s a lengthy bit of text, you can offer to pay someone to do the translation at the price you name. Another way to make money from using the site is through the money they make from ads. The higher site karma you have, based on user ratings and interaction with the site, the more of a chance you have to make it into the group of people that gets to take a portion of the profit from the ads. So instead of just taking basic language lessons, spice it up and talk to people from various countries to improve your skills while making a profit.

In their own words: “SoZiety is a social network service designed to help people to improve languages. At this moment you may think that we are some kind of language academy, but that is not the case. What soZiety wants is you to enjoy learning, and thus you want to continue learning. Instead of taking a lot of boring lessons we propose you to learn or improve a language the natural way: speaking with other people. Okay, not with any other people, but with people sharing your same interests. Sounds good?” Find out why it might be a killer and vote for this startup at KillerStartups.com.

Source: Read/WriteWeb