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| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4827 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 9 of 22 11 August 2013 at 11:05pm | IP Logged | ||
That's precisely my perception. The only language I can offer is English and probably nobody here who has my target languages as their native language would have the slightest incentive to speak English with me in order to allow me to practice my TLs with them. Some might do so as a friendly gesture, but language exchanges work by there being an equality of purpose I think, and that simply would not exist. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| beano Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4621 days ago 1049 posts - 2152 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Russian, Serbian, Hungarian | Message 10 of 22 12 August 2013 at 1:33am | IP Logged | ||
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I don't see why third-party language exchanges wouldn't be possible. Say, if members from France and
Russia didn't speak each others language but both had strong German, they could easily communicate. People do this all the time in English, so why not another language? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Rebecka95 Triglot Newbie SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4127 days ago 4 posts - 7 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, Spanish | Message 11 of 22 12 August 2013 at 10:11am | IP Logged | ||
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Where can one search for a skype partner? Is there a special thread for that?
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 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6908 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 12 of 22 12 August 2013 at 10:24am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm not sure which tread the original poster is referring to, but here are some of them:
The Skype language exchange list Let's use Skype! There is also the possibility to call members who have a "Call me!" button below the user name (as you have). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Rebecka95 Triglot Newbie SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4127 days ago 4 posts - 7 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, Spanish | Message 13 of 22 12 August 2013 at 10:31am | IP Logged | ||
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Thank you for those links!
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| tommus Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5865 days ago 979 posts - 1688 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish | Message 14 of 22 12 August 2013 at 11:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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In keeping with the theme here, I have added my Skype name to my profile. If you see that I am "Logged on" to HTLAL, I would welcome a call on Skype. I am not always logged on from the computer where I can take Skype calls so there might be a bit of a delay until I get to that computer. There might be an administrative step or two to complete to connect on Skype.
I welcome a call from anyone who wants to have a chat to improve their English. I would also welcome a call from anyone who might be so kind as to help me with my Dutch or French. I would especially welcome a call from anyone who would like to start or to try an English-Dutch or English-French exchange. I intend to be pro-active and call some HTLAL members who are displaying the Skype "Call me" banner, even if it might be just for a chat about HTLAL. I really think that the voice conversation capability could be an interesting and stimulating part of what we do here on HTLAL, especially if we report on having these Skype chats and on how they worked and how they were useful or whatever. Lets give it a go. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Emily96 Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4427 days ago 270 posts - 342 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Finnish, Latin | Message 15 of 22 13 August 2013 at 4:57am | IP Logged | ||
i would love to chat with you in finnish but maybe we should hold off a bit because all i can say is hyvää päivää minä olen Emily, tulen kanadasta! that being said, i agree with everything posted in this thread. i agree that more verbal interaction would be great, as the OP said. however, i also agree that it may be hard to find partners on HTLAL because there are so many native english speakers (i too am available for anyone who wants to practice English, i don't expect anything in return but would of course appreciate it if possible). and i also agree that because of this, we may have to do conversations where two learners practice a common language that they are studying. i'm definitely up for that with any of my languages (french, Spanish, Italian). my skype is emily.hellard, feel free to add me! i also do facetime if anyone prefers that. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4143 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 16 of 22 13 August 2013 at 1:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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The more I think about it, the less I feel that a forum like this could compete with
sites like italki, conversation exchange, and verbling when it comes to finding native language speakers. But it could provide a good place for intermediate speakers to connect with other intermediate speakers, so they could practice their target language together. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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