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| tommus Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5677 days ago 979 posts - 1688 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish | Message 17 of 22 13 August 2013 at 2:28pm | IP Logged | |||||
I agree. Many members here constantly give the advice that, to progress beyond the intermediate level in speaking, you have to seek out and use lots of opportunities to speak and converse in your L2. But are there lots of reports of HTLAL members doing that with other HTLAL members? Occasionally you hear about some face-to-face conversations, with a few You Tube videos, but they are almost always in English. Good for those with English as L2, but where are the opportunities in other languages? Just like the vast majority of the written part of HTLAL where almost all of the in-depth language learning discussion is in English. I suppose that is because it is easier for native English speakers and for most everyone else. I know I don't put enough effort to participate here in my L2s. But with so many high-quality members here across all the major languages, we seem to be missing a huge opportunity to do more things, both written and spoken, in our L2s. Edited by tommus on 13 August 2013 at 2:29pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5658 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 18 of 22 13 August 2013 at 2:33pm | IP Logged | |||||
You could have the possibility to join our billingual German / English Skype - group. We are all fluent speakers of both languages and at present our group consists of two Germans and two US-Americans. We regularly meet on Sunday evenings and if you are interested to join, please send me a PM. Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 13 August 2013 at 2:34pm 6 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4639 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 19 of 22 13 August 2013 at 10:09pm | IP Logged | |||||
Cool Fasulye! I'll have to get my Skype setup sorted out; then I will get in touch. Herzlichen Dank! 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4639 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 20 of 22 13 August 2013 at 10:15pm | IP Logged | |||||
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One thought I had, and I'm pretty sure this idea has been mentioned on HTLAL in the past
is that instead of focusing on language-oriented groups like this one (or as well as), one could look to forums (etc) based on one's TL in a subject area that one is passionate about. For example, some people here are passionate about football. (Not me, as it happens). So, find a group that happens to discuss football in your TL(s), and away you go. It might only be reading and writing messages at first, but Skype invitations may lead from it. 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4518 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 21 of 22 14 August 2013 at 11:52am | IP Logged | |||||
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I do it. I am more than willing to exchange
Dutch. But no Romanian or Hebrew presence doesn't help. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| leisaowns Newbie United States Joined 4646 days ago 12 posts - 14 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Portuguese | Message 22 of 22 17 August 2013 at 9:54pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Nice thread.
Personally, I don't mind the 100/0 exchanges. There are several people I talk to only in English or only in Portuguese. Maybe I just have more free time than the average person for entertaining conversations in English that are mostly along the lines of, "How are you? What are you doing right now? Tomorrow I will go to the theatre," etc but I don't mind it. I know what it feels like at that stage, and sometimes we just need to get real-time exposure to the language in order to improve. Sometimes I even treat it like karma. Maybe if I chat with this guy in English for a bit every other day, then someone will humor me too, and chat with me in one of my TLs. :P As for speaking with fellow learners of your TL, I think it's really fun! :-) It's like all the pressure of making a silly grammar/pronunciation mistake is off, because you're both in the same boat and are bound to make a mistake at some point! 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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