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| - I am looking for a Japanese teacher, and I can teach English to whom teaches me Japanese. Please feel free to contact with me. e-mail address: awhgnas@hotmail.com
- A language exchange is an arrangement where you meet with somebody (either in real life or over the internet) and communicate in your L2 for a set period (which is L1 for your partner), and then communicate in your L1 (which is presumably L2 for your partner). The Internet has made this much more convenient that previously. There are websites of people willing to meet along with their preference of languages. VOIP and Video-conferencing solutions like Gizmo and Skype make it easy to talk to people from all over the world for free. Strategies for making the most of a language exchange: 1. Make sure to talk equally, otherwise one of you isn't practicing your output capabilities. 2. ... Generally, language exchange can be much more beneficial on a "higher" level. For total beginners, it is most likely a better idea to first study the language on your own (or with a real teacher), to get the basics down. Natives can very rarely actually teach the language, they can tell you what is right and wrong, but seldom why. If this does not bother you, then never mind this comment at all. To find an online exchange partner, you can look at these following sites. You may have to look for quite a while to find what you are looking for, but good, useful people can be found on these sites. Some sites offer only email correspondents, other facilitate Skype conversations between interested parties. There are a number of online Language learning communities.
* Chat with each other in your respective target languages.
* Write essays for each other to correct.
* Provided you find a dedicated partner and you are equally dedicated, create things for each other! You will most likely see what your partner has problems with and he/she will identify you weak spots. Create exercises for each other, tables with important information, schemas for how to construct certain types of phrases, and so on.
* Record word lists/phrases for each other. Do you have 30 words you want to learn from a text or some other source? Have your partner record them for you, and listen to them on your mp3 player every day on your way to work/school.
* Have your partner record a small text. He/she can either just give you the audio and have you transcribe it, or give you the text with 30-60% of the words taken away, for you to fill them back in again.
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