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| MixedUpCody Senior Member United States Joined 5038 days ago 144 posts - 280 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin | Message 9 of 11 29 January 2014 at 12:28am | IP Logged |
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Thank you all for the insightful and informative answers. I guess the big takeaway is that I just need to toughen up and stay with 3ish Skype calls per week so that I can continue to improve. As always, everyone was extremely helpful. Thanks again.
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| RedBeard Senior Member United States atariage.com Joined 5884 days ago 126 posts - 182 votes Speaks: Ancient Greek* Studies: French, German | Message 10 of 11 02 February 2014 at 7:27pm | IP Logged |
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When I read the title of the post, I thought that it meant:
What level of speaking ability should I have before considering 'skyping' with others as part of my language studies? If you don't mind, can I broaden the topic to include this question? For those of us who haven't 'skyped' for language purposes (I've used it for general communication with relatives), what shoud we do/know/expect? Is it better/easier if we find someone from this website, perhaps? :wq! 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| I'm With Stupid Senior Member Vietnam Joined 3955 days ago 165 posts - 349 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Vietnamese | Message 11 of 11 03 February 2014 at 12:10pm | IP Logged |
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I think you can start having conversations from a very low level. In fact, Benny Lewis has a video of him Skyping in Polish after an hour of study. You might need a bit of preparation in advance and a dictionary on standby, but it's surprising how long a relatively low-level person can speak for if it's set up in the right way.
Here's Benny's video Obviously, the lower the level, the more difficult it's going to be for your partner. Personally, I'd be more comfortable talking to someone I was paying if it's a very low level, because I know how much effort it is to listen to someone when they first start a language. But we're talking about A1 level here. Edited by I'm With Stupid on 03 February 2014 at 12:13pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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