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| jtmc18 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7243 days ago 119 posts - 140 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 1 of 13 04 December 2011 at 4:22am | IP Logged | ||
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I just came across the following website: www.conversationexchange.com. Has anyone used
this before for practicing? I'm working temporarily in Miami and thought I'd try to find someone to converse with in Spanish, but I've heard mixed reviews about language exchange websites. I've also heard of www.mylanguageexchange.com. Any recommendations? I apologize if I've posted this in the wrong section. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tibbles Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5189 days ago 245 posts - 422 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Korean | Message 2 of 13 04 December 2011 at 9:03am | IP Logged | ||
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I think conversationexchange is okay. What it has over other web sites such as lenguajero is that it is organized down to the city level which helps if you are seeking in-person conversation exchanges. Otherwise, it supports the setting up of skype or MSN on-line conversations. I think when I signed up that within 2 days I had been invited by 5-6 potential conversation partners for skype. The sites I would recommend for seeking conversation exchanges are:
1. lenguajero (Spanish/English only) 2. sharedtalk 3. converationexchange 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| NickJS Senior Member United Kingdom flickr.com/photos/sg Joined 4957 days ago 264 posts - 334 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese | Message 3 of 13 04 December 2011 at 5:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've used that site to find Mandarin speakers and I had quite a large amount of success
with it, at least in comparison to other similar websites. My advice though is, as soon as you find a good speaker who you get along with, take your exchange advertisement down, as you will keep getting lots of replies everyday. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| schoenewaelder Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5558 days ago 759 posts - 1197 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 4 of 13 05 December 2011 at 5:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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I haven't used any of these sites, but I heard a chat on the "voices en espagnol" podcast about "Mixxer" who's address is actually:
www.language-exchanges.org/ It sounded like it was quite promising. The owner/designer/whatever said he deliberatley didn't make the site too exciting looking, so only serious language learners were attracted and not people looking for a date. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| jtmc18 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7243 days ago 119 posts - 140 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 5 of 13 07 December 2011 at 11:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks for the feedback everyone! I will definitely look at all of the websites.
I figured that some of them might be set up as dating or social networking sites, but it sounds like there are some which are specifically for language practice. I expected it would be easier to practice Spanish here, but it seems a lot of people are bilingual and prefer English for shopping and such. I'll give one of these sites a try... Edited by jtmc18 on 08 December 2011 at 12:12am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| lmo Tetraglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4765 days ago 5 posts - 5 votes Speaks: Sinhalese*, English, Italian, French | Message 6 of 13 17 December 2011 at 11:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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| Takato Tetraglot Senior Member HungaryRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5046 days ago 249 posts - 276 votes Speaks: Hungarian*, EnglishB2, GermanB2, Japanese | Message 7 of 13 13 January 2012 at 12:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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They don't reply to me on conversationexchange.com. Even though I wrote to persons who wants to learn Hungarian, and who were online in the last 3 days. :(
Edit: On sharedtalk, however, one person contacted me even though I didn't send a message to her. :D Edited by Takato on 13 January 2012 at 8:17pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Takato Tetraglot Senior Member HungaryRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5046 days ago 249 posts - 276 votes Speaks: Hungarian*, EnglishB2, GermanB2, Japanese | Message 8 of 13 29 March 2012 at 1:02pm | IP Logged | ||
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I highly recommend italki as well. It has a nice social site feeling and it's the owner of the site is Chinese, so it's best for Chinese learning. Some people contacted me on the first day, so I had great success with it. I even have an English partner. xD There are teachers as well, so it's good for beginners, too. Edited by Takato on 29 March 2012 at 1:04pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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