How To Meet English Speakers Anywhere
hi i’m vanessa from speak english with
vanessa calm where you can have natural
conversations in english without stress
a lot of my students have told me on
skype that it’s difficult for them to
meet local people when they’re
travelling and this is especially
important when they’re traveling to
english-speaking countries they want to
meet local people so that they can
practice english and meet people from a
different culture but you can’t really
just walk up to a stranger on the street
and ask them to be your friend
so in today’s video i’m going to share
with you my number one tip for meeting
locals in any city around the world even
in your hometown let’s go to meet locals
and native speakers in almost any city
around the world i recommend visiting
the website meet up.com
meet up.com at this website you can
choose any city around the world and you
can choose any interest like sports
hiking language exchange photography
beer small businesses you can choose any
topic that interests you and any city
and see if there’s a group meeting i
want to share with you two meetups that
i found in the very popular cities that
sounded interesting to give you an
example of what these meetups are like a
lot of people visit New York when
they’re first visiting the US so I
recommend going to meetup calm and
checking out two different local meetups
in the area I found one that was
particularly interesting there were over
12,000 people signed up to this meetup
group and it’s called alternatives to
the bar fun things to do in New York
City today and at this meetup there were
30 to 40 people who showed up each time
to the Meetup and with over 800 past
events there is always something going
on and at this Meetup
they have gone on gone to art museums
they’ve gone on adventures reading
festivals music scene animals there’s a
wide variety of topics that this meetup
has covered
so I recommend going to meetup.com and
checking out this meetup if you’re going
to New York you’ll have a great chance
to meet native speakers the second one
is in London in the UK and this meetup
is called fun and unusual things to do
in London
there have been over 250 past meetups
with about 30 to 50 people each time
that’s great so you have a chance of
meeting 30 to 50 local people who want
to can speak English and who are
interested in a similar activity as you
on this meetup group they go to local
pubs they visit museums they have
walking tours you can learn how to
unicycle learn how to draw Japanese
cartoons they go climbing there is a
wide variety of events at this group and
maybe you’re not going to New York maybe
you’re not going to London but there are
similar meetups all around the world for
myself I have gone to so many different
language exchange meetups meetups odd in
my hometown a small city in America
there’s been meetups for speaking French
in the city where I live now there’s a
French Meetup when I was living in Paris
I went to a volleyball Meetup
there’s meetups of every different type
all around the world so next time you
plan your trip abroad I recommend going
to meet up calm and checking out
different events different local events
that are happening in that area now it
does take a lot of courage to go
somewhere new to meet new people but I
know you won’t regret that I know you
won’t regret what I know you won’t
regret
so let me know in the comments below
have you ever gone to a meet-up from
mera kaam or have you ever gone to any
other Meetup
to meet strangers in a new place or
maybe in your hometown I’ll talk to you
later
goodbye
you