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KeithS
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 Message 1 of 7
12 December 2014 at 4:00am | IP Logged 
I'm having a bit of a hard time trying to find some more partners who speak Mandarin
natively and/or German natively, but I've had a hard time finding people to practice
with.

Any idea for sites for this? I used to use Livemocha, but I haven't been there since
Rosetta Stone bought them out, and I've already put up a listing on fluentin3months. Any
suggestions for sites for finding free language conversation partners? For Spanish in the
past, I got the first few out of luck. And for Russian I had already met a bunch of
Russian-speakers prior to Livemocha's buyout.
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eyðimörk
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12 December 2014 at 10:40am | IP Logged 
If you try typing "language exchange" into Google you find the following sites in the top-5:

http://www.mylanguageexchange.com
http://www.conversationexchange.com
http://www.easylanguageexchange.com
http://www.italki.com/partners
http://www.interpals.net/language_exchange.php

Coincidentally, they're sites you commonly see recommended for this sort of thing. Another site generally recommended that isn't a top response on Google is http://polyglotclub.com/
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day1
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12 December 2014 at 12:39pm | IP Logged 
Try finding Chinese speakers through QQ messenger (like Skype, but popular in China).
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Emme
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12 December 2014 at 8:08pm | IP Logged 
You could also try the Tandem-Server of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

As an English native speaker your language skills are pretty much in demand there, as you can see from this table.

Currently 33 native Chinese speakers are looking for an English partner (and there is only 1 available), and 55 German speakers still have to be paired up with an English speaker (and there are only 26 wanting to learn German).

So I think you have a good chance of finding someone there.

Hope this helps!

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KeithS
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12 December 2014 at 8:31pm | IP Logged 
Emme wrote:
You could also try the Tandem-
Server
of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

As an English native speaker your language skills are pretty much in demand there, as
you can see from this lang=en">table.

Currently 33 native Chinese speakers are looking for an English partner (and there is
only 1 available), and 55 German speakers still have to be paired up with an English
speaker (and there are only 26 wanting to learn German).

So I think you have a good chance of finding someone there.

Hope this helps!


This is very helpful, thank you.

eyðimörk wrote:
If you try typing "language exchange" into Google you find the
following sites in the top-5:

http://www.mylanguageexchange.com
http://www.conversationexchange.com
http://www.easylanguageexchange.com
http://www.italki.com/partners
http://www.interpals.net/language_exchange.php

Coincidentally, they're sites you commonly see recommended for this sort of thing.
Another site generally recommended that isn't a top response on Google is
http://polyglotclub.com/


I couldn't find the "partner" section of italki, but I did find a lot of Chinese
speakers via Mixxr. (mylanguageexchange.com)

Edited by KeithS on 12 December 2014 at 8:37pm

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cathrynm
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13 December 2014 at 7:26am | IP Logged 
I think Chinese-English language exchange is pretty easy to find. Chinese come to me, even though I'm not studying Chinese. Know your time zones, figure out when Chinese people are awake and look then.
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tarvos
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 Message 7 of 7
13 December 2014 at 11:19am | IP Logged 
KeithS wrote:
Emme wrote:
You could also try the bochum.de/">Tandem-
Server
of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

As an English native speaker your language skills are pretty much in demand there, as
you can see from this lang=en">table.

Currently 33 native Chinese speakers are looking for an English partner (and there is
only 1 available), and 55 German speakers still have to be paired up with an English
speaker (and there are only 26 wanting to learn German).

So I think you have a good chance of finding someone there.

Hope this helps!


This is very helpful, thank you.

eyðimörk wrote:
If you try typing "language exchange" into Google you find the
following sites in the top-5:

http://www.mylanguageexchange.com
http://www.conversationexchange.com
http://www.easylanguageexchange.com
http://www.italki.com/partners
http://www.interpals.net/language_exchange.php

Coincidentally, they're sites you commonly see recommended for this sort of thing.
Another site generally recommended that isn't a top response on Google is
http://polyglotclub.com/


I couldn't find the "partner" section of italki, but I did find a lot of Chinese
speakers via Mixxr. (mylanguageexchange.com)


If you're on the main site and logged in, you will find the tab "Language partners"
under "Community".


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