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delta910
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Speaks: English*, Spanish
Studies: Dutch, German

 
 Message 9 of 13
07 September 2009 at 3:10am | IP Logged 
I hope it's not too late to post on this thread.

I usually wait about one to two months before I start to speak, and when I do, I do a bunch of shadowing and self-speaking to myself. I don't like to wait a long time like some input only people do, but I wait just long enough to create hunger for the language and get down my listening skills first.
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lancemanion
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 Message 10 of 13
07 September 2009 at 3:53am | IP Logged 
When do you start to converse?
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delta910
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 Message 11 of 13
07 September 2009 at 5:03am | IP Logged 
I start after I have gone through my course(s),from front to back, about five times. This takes me about two months. I then do shadowing while I'm conversing with people because by this time I feel really comfortable with the language and how it sounds.
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aricarrot
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 Message 12 of 13
07 September 2009 at 2:47pm | IP Logged 
Thanks everyone for your info! I've been trying hard to get a language exchange together but it's proving to be very difficult...
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lancemanion
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 Message 13 of 13
07 September 2009 at 5:15pm | IP Logged 
Yes, sometimes it takes a while. I recommend sending 10 requests out times the number of language partners you
want. You might try:

http://www.language-exchanges.org/
http://www.polyglot-learn-language.com/


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