Be careful with SharedTalk. If they decide you, or possibly anyone in the same chat room as you, said anything they didn’t like, you will be banned. Possibly forever. There will be no warning, there is no block function, and SharedTalk will not reply to any requests for clarification. I have read on other boards that just giving someone your hotmail or yahoo ID can be enough to get you kicked off. Also, it seems that you cannot discuss slang terms in other languages, as these could potentially “offend” someone – even though they are a legitimate part of learning a language. Likewise anything that could be considered romantic. This is of course all conjecture, since there is no way to know why someone was banned.
The ban may be for the life of your computer – you cannot login and create a new account, for example, using the same computer that was banned. They will display an unfriendly message and their site will lock up, and there is no “appeal decision” button.
If you’re using this in a classroom, please bear in mind that once one student makes a comment worthy of banishment, nobody will be able to use that computer for SharedTalk again (unless RosettaStone changes their policy).
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