Join the community
Language In Use is more than posts and verbs — it's a place to meet people who learn what you teach, and teach what you learn.
Tell people what you speak
On your account you can list every language you already speak and every language you're currently learning, with a CEFR level for each. We use that two ways:
- To match you with people who speak what you're learning, and learn what you speak.
- To label your contributions (comments, shared posts) with the right languages.
Make your profile public — or don't
Your account profile is private by default. Flipping "Make my profile public" on the Languages & privacy page does three things:
- You appear in the searchable people directory.
- You get a public page at
/u/{your-handle}showing your name, bio, city/country and the languages you've listed. - Other members can chat or message you (only if you also turn on "Let other members message me").
Both toggles are independent — you can be visible in the directory but decline incoming chat, or hidden from the directory but reachable by people who already have your handle. Turn either off any time.
Chat & language exchange
Once you're public and contactable, anyone signed in can hit Start chat on your profile or open the chat panel directly. Conversations are private to the two (or more) people involved; group chats let you bring more friends in.
Tip: a profile bio that mentions "happy to do an English ↔ Italian exchange a couple of times a month" reaches the right people much faster than an empty one.
Reading + highlights
Every published post supports text highlighting in four colours — pick a snippet you want to remember and click a colour to save it. Your highlights live at /my/highlights and clicking one jumps you straight back to the spot in the post.
Run a school, teach, or translate?
Add a free listing to the directory — admin-approved and visible to every learner across the supported languages. See how listing works for the full registration walk-through, or jump straight to the form for schools, teachers, or translators.
Ground rules
- Be kind. Language learning is humbling — celebrate other people's mistakes as a sign they're trying.
- No spam, no recruitment, no commercial promotion outside the directory.
- Disagreements happen — keep them civil. Repeated rule-breaking ends in account suspension.