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| developer Newbie Spain Joined 3389 days ago 4 posts - 4 votes | Message 1 of 10 13 August 2015 at 4:51pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Hi everybody,
I have been thinking about doing an app for language practice with native speakers using video chat. The basic idea is that you enter your native language and the language you want to practice and you are matched with someone based on these. Then you can videochat or just use voice to practice with them. I'm thinking about some way to rate the other user after chatting with them, also you could save your favorite ones to chat continue practicing with them some other day. What would you like to see in an app like this? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6618 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes  Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 2 of 10 13 August 2015 at 6:26pm | IP Logged | |||||
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There is an app like that already called Tandem. I think it has most of those features, maybe not voice only
chat, but the others. I don't mean to discourage you or anything. I just don't know what could be added to make a better app. I suggest you give it a try and see what kind of ideas it gives you. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| developer Newbie Spain Joined 3389 days ago 4 posts - 4 votes | Message 3 of 10 13 August 2015 at 6:48pm | IP Logged | |||||
I have checked and it seems like it's only for iPhone. This is a good thing because I'm targeting Android devices first. I'm investigating other apps for ideas, but really the ideas I value the most are of the people that are learning languages (like the folks in this forum). Thanks Brun for taking the time to answer! :) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6618 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 4 of 10 13 August 2015 at 8:51pm | IP Logged | |||||
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OK. Well, Tandem lets you have in-app voice chats and text chats and you can find people by language and
country. What I would like to see improved is that people's languages are only listed as "speaks" or "learns" and I would like to know which languages are a person's native languages and also what level they have in the other languages. Something like the progress bars in ITalki would be nice. I would also like to search for partners by keywords so I could find someone with similar interests. Tandem does let you control who can see your profile to some extent. For example, some women only want other women to be able to find them. That's a good feature. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5205 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish | Message 5 of 10 14 August 2015 at 10:53am | IP Logged | |||||
I wish Conversation Exchange and iTalki had this feature, to help weed out the time-wasters! It would be open to abuse though, like people giving bad ratings just because they didn't really "click" with the person or they had differences in opinions etc. But if you could name and shame users for specific things like not turning up at the appointed time for a Skype chat without warning or apology, it could be helpful. In terms of language exchange apps, I've heard good things about HelloTalk, but not tried it yet. There are already lots of sites out there for language exchanges, so I don't understand why people keep making more and more new ones and dividing the user base more and more, unless they have something new and different to offer. As I say, the rating system idea appeals to me and I'm not sure if any of the current ones have it. Edited by garyb on 14 August 2015 at 11:04am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6618 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 6 of 10 14 August 2015 at 1:17pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Tandem lets you make a comment about the user after you chat with them.
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| developer Newbie Spain Joined 3389 days ago 4 posts - 4 votes | Message 7 of 10 14 August 2015 at 1:59pm | IP Logged | |||||
You are right about people giving bad ratings for "fun", it's a real problem that I'm seeing in other apps. Maybe in cases like this it would be nice to just have positive ratings and give priority for matching based on these. And for indecent behaviour (sadly a problem when you allow people sending image/video) a report button that sends an alert with a screenshot of that moment to the admin. Then the admin would ban that user. I have to think more about this.
I guess everybody think they have the million $ idea (me included) :-) I would like to make something on the simple side to begin with and improve it day by day following people's suggestions. On the other hand think what would have happened if Mark Zuckerberg hadn't created Facebook because MySpace already existed at that time... Thanks all for your thoughts, really appreciated! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| aokoye Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5539 days ago 235 posts - 453 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Dutch, Norwegian, Japanese | Message 8 of 10 14 August 2015 at 5:09pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Are you envisioning this as a language tandem version of chat roulette? If so that could end very very
badly even with the most stringent moderating. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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