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MyHappyPlanet.com is an online community for people who are passionate about learning languages.

With MyHappyPlanet, you can practice speaking with a native speaker, learn more about other cultures, and make friends with people anywhere in the world. We've built in great features so you can teach and learn from each other through live chat, messaging, videos, and fun lessons.

You want to learn a language or practice speaking a language you are learning.'Speaking with native speakers is one of the most effective ways of learning a language. Plus, it is fun!

• You want to learn more about other cultures. Practicing with a native speaker not only helps you learn a language, but it gives an opportunity for cultural learning, too.
• You want to make friends with people who have diverse experiences. MyHappyPlanet has users from various parts of the world.
• It is free! There is no charge for using any of the features of MyHappyPlanet.

MyHappyPlanet offers various features designed to make language learning fun, dynamic, and'effective:

Messaging

You can practice reading and writing by sending messages to friends. To send a message, just click on the' Send Message link'that appears on all'the member search results pages. You can also click on the 'icon'while viewing another user's profile.

Live chats

You can practice speaking with friends through live chats. We are still developing our own chat system. But in the meantime, we have'integrated Skype, MSN, and Yahoo! Messenger. To conduct live chats, just click on the Skype , MSN , and Yahoo! Messenger 'icons while viewing another user's profile.

Videos

You can'improve your listening skills by watching videos. Some videos have transcripts on the side to aid your'viewing.'If there is no transcript, you can further enhance your listening skills by transcribing the video that you're watching. Just click on'Transcribe'in the box next to the video display panel.

Visit our registration page to sign up. We will send you a confirmation email after that. Open the email and click on the link to verify your email address.

After confirming your account, you can continue on to fill out your profile. Be sure to fill in your name (which you can choose not to display) in order to appear in searches when your friends are looking for you on the site.'And don't forget to add your picture!

After filling out your profile, you can start searching for friends and contacting other people.

A friend is another user on on MyHappyPlanet who you can add to your friends list after making contact through smiles, emails, or chats.

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Sometimes, emails get eaten by spam filters. Please add our email (admin@myhappyplanet.com) to your address book and check your spam folder.

To send a message to another user, click on the "Send Message" button to the right of his or her profile information. You can also click on "Send Message" on the user's profile. In the Messages Tab at the top, Click on "Compose Message." Click on "Select from Friends" if you are sending a message to a user on your friends list.

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You become friends with another member by communicating through smiles. When you smile at another user, they can choose to accept your smile or ignore your smile. If they accept your smile, the use will appear on your friends list. If they ignore your smile, they will not appear on your friends list.

A smile is a quick way to contact a potential new friend.

When you receive a Smile, you can Smile Back or Ignore the Smile. When you smile back, the person will be added to your friends list. The person will not receive notification that you have ignored his/her smile.

Use the Block Users feature to prevent another user from being able to search for you or see your profile.

You can use the Messaging feature on My Happy Planet with the help of the Virtual Keyboard to type special characters. Click on the envelope icon to the right of the user's photo.

We would like to find perfect matches for our users to have as language partners or study buddies. Click on the Friends tab to search for language partners, study buddies, or just friends. You can search by keyword and have the results show "Last online," "Most fluent," "Most friends," "Most comments," "Age: low to high," "Age: high to low," or "Username A to Z." You can browse through different user profiles and find someone with similar interests.

Sending a smile will signal users that you would like to become friends. The user can accept the smile to become your friend or ignore your smile.

Find the Invite Friends Button on the top right of the page.

When you receive a Smile, you can Smile Back or Ignore the Smile. When you smile back, the person will be added to your friends list. The person will not receive notification that you have ignored his/her smile.

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Use the Block Users feature found on the user's profile. This will not allow the user to search for you or see your profile.

Click on "My Friends"to see your friends list. On the opposite side of the user's photo, you will see "Remove."'Click to remove this user from your friends list. If you would like to block the user, click on the user's profile, where you will find "Block User."

To send a message to another user, click on the "Send Message" button to the right of his or her profile information. You can also click on "Send Message" on the user's profile. In the Messages Tab at the top, Click on "Compose Message." Click on "Select from Friends" if you are sending a message to a user on your friends list.

Under the Messages tab, click on Sent Messages.

Under the Messages tab, click on Saved Messages. To save a message that you are composing before sending, you can click on save, and you can access the message again from the Messages tab.

You can use the Messaging feature on My Happy Planet with the help of the Virtual Keyboard to type special characters. Click on the envelope icon to the right of the user's photo.

Under the My Home tab, click on My Profile. Enter your name, birth date, location, and other information.

Under the My Home tab, click on My Picture where you can browse for a photo to upload.

Click on 'Forgot Login?" on the Login page and enter your birth date and email to retrieve your login information from your email account.

Under My Home, click on My Languages to enter the language(s) that you speak and the language(s) that you are learning. When you are done selecting from the drop box, click on Add this Language. Refer to the fluency level guide on the right (Coming Soon).

Please Refer to this fluency guide in order to accurately asses your level of language knowledge.

The Fluency Level Guide is also available on the "videos" and "lessons" pages in order to rate the video as appropriate for a certain language level.

This guide can be found on the right hand side of your screen.

Our feedback page is used to contact the administrators with any questions, comments, or concerns.

To type a comment click inside the "comments" window and begin typing.

The Rating scale is used to rate the website from 1 star to 5 stars.' If you leave your cursor over the website it gives criteria as to what each star signifies.

• - poor
• - nothing special
• - worth using
• - pretty cool
• - awesome!

Your comments are valuable to us and we will contact you to address your concerns.

The "Contact us" section is located on the bottom of any MyHappyPlanet page and allows you to suggest another language or suggest a new feature to us.

• To suggest a new language, fill out the language and its country of origin and your email address(optional) and click "submit."
• To suggest a new feature, fill out the "i have an idea" window and click "submit."

• All submissions are sent directly to admin@myhappyplanet.com.