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| Gareth Groupie United States Joined 5460 days ago 51 posts - 67 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Cherokee, French | Message 1 of 10 03 April 2011 at 6:45am | IP Logged | |||||
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Have you done an online language exchange course?
How do they typically go? Where does one usually find someone to exchange with? Do you have any horror stories? Or know any annoyances? Edited by Gareth on 03 April 2011 at 7:02am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Arthaey Groupie United States arthaey.com Joined 5048 days ago 97 posts - 155 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 2 of 10 03 April 2011 at 7:45am | IP Logged | |||||
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I've used http://mylanguageexchange.com/ to find language exchange partners. The trouble I always have is
keeping the conversations going past the "getting to know you" stage, but that's my fault, not the site's. :P 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| StarcrazyAngel Triglot Groupie China Joined 6001 days ago 47 posts - 61 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 3 of 10 11 April 2011 at 12:05pm | IP Logged | |||||
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www.conversationexchange.com and www.sharedtalk.com are good as well. Shared talk has a love chat room on it as well, seperated into different languages or a multilingual room. I agree with Arthaey that it is difficult to keep conversations going past the getting to know you stage. Usually I find it's better if I've met them face to face first.
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| josht Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6448 days ago 635 posts - 857 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Spanish, Russian, Dutch | Message 4 of 10 11 April 2011 at 1:42pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I've had numerous exchanges set up through the eTandem site from the Bochum University.
The problem I've always ran into is that usually, one person is far more interested in the exchange, learning, etc. than the other. I would spend a lot of time correcting their English, and often, get nothing in return. The most extreme form of this is people simply not responding at all. I just recently tried to get a Russian partner through the site, and the first person I was connected with never responded at all. So, I've found it to be rather hit and miss. If you end up with someone who is as interested in language improvement as you are, it can be fun and beneficial for both parties. If you end up with someone who seems to have signed up just to have something to do other than look out the window in a daze, it can be pretty pointless. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Arthaey Groupie United States arthaey.com Joined 5048 days ago 97 posts - 155 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 5 of 10 13 April 2011 at 2:53am | IP Logged | |||||
Why doesn't this site have a way to search for language exchange partners, then? We're definitely a motivated bunch very interested in language improvement, and we're a multilingual bunch. Seems like a natural fit. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6381 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map | Message 6 of 10 13 April 2011 at 3:02am | IP Logged | |||||
It does but I think you have to be a pro member to access it. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Arthaey Groupie United States arthaey.com Joined 5048 days ago 97 posts - 155 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 7 of 10 13 April 2011 at 3:09am | IP Logged | |||||
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Ahhh, I see. Thanks for letting us non-pro members know, then. :)
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| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5132 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 8 of 10 13 April 2011 at 3:45am | IP Logged | |||||
As a non-pro, I could access the tandem search and get back results, but the names were hidden, so yeah. You need to be a pro member to get any use out of it. That said, there are a lot of sites out there for Skype language parters. I found my Skype parter through Lang-8 - primarily a written language improvement site. But if you live in a somewhat large town, you can even look locally for real, in-person practice. Believe it or not, craigslist works fine for finding someone locally. R. == 1 person has voted this message useful |
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