Chatting feels natural when you can do it in the language you think in. PEE.CHAT is available in 11 languages, from English and Spanish to Arabic, Hindi and Turkish, so you can find your way around the live rooms in your own words. The rooms are public live video chats started by members. Each one has a name, a description, a host and a chat, and anyone can open a room and watch without an account, on a computer, an iPhone or an Android phone. Some rooms can feel like home, with people from your own country, while others bring voices from all over the world. Below you will find how to spot a room that suits you, how to take your first steps in your language, and how to be a good guest when a room speaks another one.

The site speaks your language

PEE.CHAT is available in 11 languages: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian, Russian, Arabic, Indonesian, Hindi and Turkish. You use the site in the one you read best, in the browser of a computer, an iPhone or an Android phone, with nothing to download.

It helps to separate two things. The site around you, with its pages and buttons, speaks your language. The conversation inside a room happens in whatever language its host and members choose, and because people come and go, that can change from one visit to the next.

That mix is part of the fun: you can feel at home in your own language and still have the rest of the world one click away.

How to find a room that suits you

The rooms page brings the public rooms together, and it opens without an account. There is no country or language filter, so you choose the way you would pick a café: by what is written on the door. Every room has a name and a description written by the member who created it, in the words and the language they chose.

Look for a name or a description in your language, or for a topic you enjoy. Open the room, watch the cameras for a minute and read the room chat: you will quickly see which language people are using and whether the mood suits you.

Not your kind of room? Leave and open another one. What you find depends on who is live when you visit.

Take your first steps in your language

You do not have to speak on camera to be part of a room, so you can build up gradually.

First, watch and listen, with no account. You will pick up the rhythm of the room and the phrases people use.

Next, create a free account and write a short hello in the room chat, in your language or in the one the room uses. Writing gives you time to think, a gentle way to practice a language you are learning.

When you feel like it, turn on your camera so the room can see and hear you. You decide when it goes on and off.

Want a room in your language? Create your own, give it a name and a description in your language and share its link. Your friends can watch without an account.

Good manners in a mixed-language room

A room brings together people from your own country and from far away, so a little care goes a long way.

Say hello first, then follow the language the room is using. Short sentences travel best: one idea at a time, few abbreviations, little slang. If you are not sure you were understood, ask a simple question instead of repeating yourself louder.

Be patient with mistakes, yours and other people's. In a mixed room, everybody writes or speaks in a language that is not their own at some point.

Keep your address and phone number to yourself, because a room is public. If someone is rude, block and report them: hosts, moderators and PEE.CHAT's own moderation look after the rooms.