Sooooo....

...after creating an account to see what LiveMocha was about and after losing about 3 hours of my life to it (but not wasted time!) I have learned that I understand a lot of written Portuguese (because of Spanish) and that LOTS of people want to practice English.

I like LiveMocha...it seems like you have to work on finding people that are serious about chatting & will actually answer you...and then you have to get over the hurdle and see if you actually WANT to talk to a given person (just like a cocktail party, except you can close the window on the boring ones) but after that I spent hours talking to a couple of people...which doesn't bode well for my work schedule, but it made me happy! :)