LiveMocha.com is an innovative website that connects self-motivated individuals from all over the world with native-speaking language tutors. It's the free, social way to learn or even tutor a language.

Learn. Practice. Share.

Everyone knows that the best way to learn a language is immersion. LiveMocha.com took this learning principle and added its own twist to create the first-of-its-kind online language-learning community. Users create profiles and add friends who have similar learning goals or are already fluent in their language of choice. It's really an online learning and practicing community, with friends helping friends accomplish their goals via lessons that are almost game-like. Budding linguists can learn the language at a pace that works for them. The lessons are interactive and include all the essential aspects of learning a new language, with the bonus of beautiful photography from around the world.

If you're even remotely competitive, you're going to love this. LiveMocha.com lets users track their learning progress online, see how their progress compares to other users and even compete against them to help motivate and encourage one another.

We like LiveMocha.com because it takes the functional task of learning a language and adds a knock-your-socks-off social element that makes the world just a little bit smaller and keeps users coming back for more. See you in Spanish. Or Chinese. Or Hindi. Or...