Questions related to learning a language by regularly communicating with a native (or near-native) speaker of your target language, whom you help learning your native language. Also known as tandem learning. Note that this is not a teaching approach; for teaching, use the [teaching] tag or the [teaching-methods] tag.
Questions tagged [language-exchange]
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Does anybody know why Lang-8 stopped accepting new membership?
I've heard a lot of good things about this language exchange site called Lang-8. I was going to check it out for myself, but was rerouted to this thing called HiNative. Later, I learned that Lang-8 stopped accepting new enrollment/subscriptions in…
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What are some techniques/methods that you would suggest for an online tandem learning relation to work?
I got to know this guy from the Internet, I'm a Vietnamese living in Germany and learning German; he is a German living in Vietnam and learning Vietnamese. I really want this tandem learning thing to work out for us because, from my side, I want to…
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Is it more productive to speak 2 hours with a student who is learning the same language, or 1 hour with a native speaker?
When people find a language exchange partner (such as via Reddit's r/language_exchange), they often seek out a native speaker. However, this typically comes at a cost: spending time teaching them your native language in return.
I'm interested in…
Rebecca J. Stones
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