Bonjour and Ola! with SharedTalk

Ever wanted to learn a foreign language from the comfort of your home? Then you can’t go wrong with RosettaStone SharedTalk ( the name is quiet a mouthful isn’t it?)

SharedTalk is a language exchange community, through which you can learn from 113 languages of 175 countries. It provides you learning opportunities not only through text but also through voice chat amongst it’s members. You can become a member of the community for free and set up your own profile. After setting up your profile you can search for members who speak the language of your interest. On the main page, this search is shown under Find a Language Partner. Apart from learning languages from native speakers, you can also discover their culture, hobbies and interests, and this is the most interesting part; you are more likely to learn slang and informal expressions than in a classroom or a book. Interesting isn’t it? Talk about plus points!

Although the features that SharedTalk boasts of aren’t that innovative or anything different then other social networking websites, the community that it targets is what makes it different then the others. It claims to be a Rich Internet Application specially built to be the fastest, lightest and most efficient tool possible. How it manages to achieve that is beyond me, as Facebook turns out to be much more efficient and feature rich than this community and the voice chat feature can be added through the use of Facebook Applications. The Unicode character support is good as it wont have any trouble displaying different languages.

Overall, it’s a good targeted community, but they’ve just listed normal social network features as their main points. They have no expert or specialists to guide you, or any video tutorials to help you in your thirst to learn other languages which would have really made it something special, but till then it’s just worth a shot.

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The World's Most Popular FOREX Webinar: 'Trade Non-Farm Payrolls LIVE'

FXstreet.com, FXBootcamp.com and GFT are very proud to announce the 25th edition of the world's most popular FX webinar: "Trade Non-Farm Payrolls Live"

ATLANTA, Ga., June 3 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- The upcoming Non-Farm Payrolls webinar will be held on 2008 June 6th from 11:30 GMT until 14:30 GMT (07:30 EDT - 10:30 EDT) on FXstreet.com. This live online session is presented each month by Wayne McDonell, Chief Currency Coach at FxBootcamp.com, one of the best traders and instructors of the forex market. More than 600 traders register each month for this unique live event. "The first Non-Farm Payrolls Webinar was held in May 2006 so we also celebrate the second anniversary of that event, sponsored by GFT since February 2008. Our partners are Mataf.net, Technical Trading, TradersLog.com, Asesoria Forex."

This lively and very instructive session has become a renowned opportunity to learn how to trade economic reports with the ability to ask questions while the market is moving. FX Bootcamp provides live play by play commentary and analysis during the release of the Employment Report. Traders learn how to conservatively trade during news events, why the market moves based on fundamental analysis, how technical analysis applied to live market charts, including how to apply Pivot Point & Fibonacci Theories in real-time... Traders are even encouraged to ask questions while the market is moving!

Wayne's knowledge and coaching style have been highly appreciated by the thousands of traders who have attended this special webinar. Here are some reviews published on the FXstreet.com forum by attendees of previous Non-Farm Payrolls webinars:

"Great session. It saved me losing my profits. Please continue with your excellent tutorials."

"Having someone talk me through a live trade has been very useful and given me a lot to work on."

"I have been in this webinar more then a dozen times and I always look forward to your take on the market conditions and teaching fundamentals along the way."

"Thanks for a very informative live NFP session which provides a wealth of information regarding fundamentals, and how and why the other markets correlate to forex."

"I really enjoy the NFP webinars because they are traditionally the most exciting and difficult news events to trade", says Wayne McDonell of FxBootcamp.com "most new traders look to the Non-Farm Payrolls reports as a way to make a quick buck... and most lose. As a live event, it gives me an opportunity to teach people how to be a conservative and disciplined trader when it matters the most... when emotions are really flying. Partnering with FXstreet.com, the largest forex portal on the web, gives me an opportunity to help the largest group of FX traders possible."

Francesc Riverola, CEO & Founder of FXstreet.com, said that "running the NFP webinar with Wayne McDonell has been one of the greatest moves we have made at FXstreet.com in the last two years. It is definitely a two thumbs up event, educative and entertaining. The key of its success is the winning combination of the economic indicator with major impact on the FX market and an unbeatable host as Wayne."

FOREXSTREET, S.L. (www.fxstreet.com), a Barcelona-based company (Spain) founded in 2001, owns the largest Foreign Exchange (Forex) portal in the world, FXstreet.com. As its distinctive trademark, the portal has always been proud of its unyielding compromise to provide neutral and unbiased information and to enable its users to take better and more confident decisions. FXstreet.com has managed to gain the collaboration of the entire Forex industry, from individual professionals and small companies right up to Forex Brokers and Investment Banks.

FX Bootcamp, LLC (www.fxbootcamp.com) is an online forex training organization that provides real-time coaching while in the live market. A conservative trade planning methodology centered on sound technical and fundamental analysis is taught to members as the market moves. Chief Currency Analyst Wayne McDonell is a regular speaker at Traders Expos & Conferences around the world. Online, his training videos have been downloaded more than 400,000 times. In print, you can find his "how to" articles in Your Trading Edge, The Traders Journal and he writes a column for FOREX Journal magazine. He will launch his new book "Strategic & Tactical FOREX Trading" this September at the FOREX Trading Expo in Las Vegas.

FX Bootcamp is a member of the Nacional Futures Association and Wayne McDonell is a licensed Commodities Trading Advisor.

Copyright © 2008 Send2Press® Newswire, a unit of Neotrope®
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Big Brother Betting Odds: Starts Tonight! Foreign Exchange?

This is it - Big Brother 9 starts tonight! We’re so excited about it that we might just leave the country at the next opportunity!

There’s a brand new gang of clawing numpties desperate for a sliver of recognition on their way into the Big Brother house, and this time tomorrow you’ll be presented with betting odds for the flipping lot of them. But until then, here’s the last of our Big Brother special betting odds. There’s money to be made here, kids.

Here are the Big Brother betting odds for a Big Brother foreign exchange, with help from Paddy Power…

Big Brother to organise a foreign exchange programme (with another reality TV show) - Well this sounds just delightful, and a surefire ratings-grabber, too. Who can forget the time that Cameron went and spent some time in the South African Big Brother house and… what? None of you can remember that? None of you can remember that because it was the dullest moment of any series of Big Brother, even though Big Brother is essentially a TV show about thick people sitting around not doing anything? Oh. But look at the wording of this one - Big Brother to organise a foreign exchange programme with another reality TV show. What does that mean? Will a Big Brother housemate end up on X Factor? Or Britain’s Next Top Model? Or that Bill Oddie programme about shagging badgers? The odds are short. Can it possibly be true? Current Big Brother betting odds - 3/1

Tomorrow: Big Brother opening night betting odds! Booyah! But if that’s too long to wait - or you feel like making more money than you know what to do with - head right over to Paddy Power to see the full list of Big Brother betting odds.

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