so be gentle! lol 
My alien contacts are of many races, mainly those who are in charge of running the organization of the 218 races that are visiting Earth. All the visiting races work together now due to the efforts of the organization.
My answers are based on my own experiences and conversations with my alien contacts, not from any source on Earth. They are accurate to the best of my ability to understand them. I don't know everything and I can't find out about everything I ask them.
Of course if other people have different answers, I would not take that as a challenge and would appreciate if mine are not taken that way either.
Do Alien races have a name for themselves? IE we are Humans or Humanity i presume they wouldnt call them selves "greys" ect,
All races have names for themselves, but I have not been told any of their real race names in their own languages. Some are translatable, such as if they describe something, and the same with the names of their worlds. "The Greys" is a name we humans gave two races, but use for many races who are not either of these two races. One of those races remains at Earth and the other has left. The one remaining has a name that is translatable, and it is "The Ancient Ones".
All the names we humans use for the races are made up by humans- or are names describing where a race comes from, such as "The Pleiadians", however, that is not one race- many races come from The Pleiades. Some of the names we use are acceptable to the alien races and some are not. When they speak to us, they use the names we are familiar with to tell us who they are, such as, "We are the race that humans call . . . ".
Eventually the races will give humans acceptable names that we can pronounce, for our race to know each of them by.
What is their native language? does it have a name? is it based on numbers and letters like ours or shapes and lines like the Chineese/Japaneese alphabet? or have they evolved beyond the need for a written language?
Every race has its own language, or more than one, and has a name. I don't know any of the names of their languages. Every alien writing I have seen appears to be like symbols. Often the symbols mean a lot more than just a word.
All races have written languages, but not all races can pronounce each other's language sounds vocally. By telepathy, once they learn another's language, they can talk with each other that way and it is audible by thought. They can also communicate by each other's writing either written or by thought.
All the beings of all the races that visit Earth have learned all of our languages and can converse with humans by telepathy using them for our own understanding, even if they can't vocally pronounce our sounds. Learning our languages is an important part of their studies, preparing for their work here.
Does their plannet have animals ? i always wondered if other races have pets or zoos or such on their homeworlds
Some worlds of intelligent life have animals and/or marine life some do not. Many of our visiting races have animals and marine life, wild and/or domestic on their home worlds. I don't know if any of them have zoos, but I'm sure they would not be abusive like ours.
Do they have an economy as we would understand it? do they have a need to buy and sell goods?, a currency? or do they use a barter system? have they gone beyond the need for money ala star treck?
None of our visiting races use money like we do. Some races have a kind of wealth system, but they don't have wealthy people over poor people. Every single advanced race known has a system of supplying all of their people with all of their basic needs without any personal charge of any kind of money. Basic needs are provided for by their leadership. All people who can, contribute in some way to the system.
Some races share, or barter, with each other. Some worlds have materials that others need. And all worlds need peace agreements, information and the benefits of experience from each other.
Do they have relationships with eachother? IE do they live in a family unit? do they have couples in the same way we would understand it?
All races of people have relationships within their own kind based on love and family, and all live in a family unit. They all have males and females and reproduce very much the same way as we do.
What sort of life span do they have? do their bodys get weeker with age like ours? or do they stay in a similar condition most of their existance?
All the races that visit Earth are advanced far beyond us- they are older and more experienced and capable both naturally and technologically. Through evolutional and genetic refinement, they all live much longer than we do. Most live hundreds of years, up to the longest-lived in this part of our galaxy at about 1000 years. They weaken at the end of their lives, but they have all already overcome their own common genetic diseases and environmental diseases. They are not immune to being sick- but they have had a great deal of time to cure most of the kinds of things we humans suffer with.
When we humans live as healthily as we are meant to, and start to truly refine our race, we will live better and longer also.
Does their race have recrational activites? such as Sports or The Arts? would they have appreciation for a painting in the same way we can for example?
All intelligent races have recreational activities, including competitive sports, mental acrobatics, and arts. Some races have competitions between each other also, sort of like we do between countries, but theirs are more like shows than just of competition. They have a great appreciation for the diversity of life they know and work with in all ways, even if they do not particularly like some of the personal ways or taste of another race. There is no prejudice in any advanced race.
Our visiting races have a great appreciation for all of our arts. We humans are exceptionally innovative, dynamic in our thinking and problem solving, creative, and emotional in expression and passion. We have abilities inside of us that the other races find unique and special, that we do not even know we have yet.
[edit on 6/29/2006 by EarthSister]
