I have been teaching online for the last 5 years concentrating on conversation skills with an emphasis on the student's interests. Both free conversation and prepared lesson plans are valid ways to better your language skills and I find each of them equally fun.I have learned so much about so many things by letting the students delve into their own interests with my language coaching; I've also made good friends. Online, real-time language learning provides more opportunities to participate in the class because the active and passive participation can be infinitely stimulated through the use of the immense library we have access to through the internet. It is the best system I have found in my many years of teaching.