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hello everyone and welcome back to

english with Lucy today I am going to be

giving you some tips that will help you

find native speakers that you can

practice with we all know that

practicing with native speakers is one

of the best ways of becoming fluent in

another language in this case English

they can help you with your

pronunciation they can help you improve

your listening you might learn lots of

new slang phrases and casual and

informal phrases with them you might

pick up some idioms some new verbs loads

of new vocabulary so many of my students

ask me how they can access native

speakers because it isn’t that easy

many want to make friends with native

speakers but don’t know how to find them

or how to approach them in this video we

will discuss different ways in which you

can find native speakers talk to them

and persuade them to help you let’s get

started with the video tip one is access

natives on the go this first point

covers two great tools private tutors

and language partners but what’s the

difference well in simple terms you pay

a private tutor for their time and a

language partner forms part of a

mutually beneficial arrangement when no

money is exchanged you help them with

their desired language the language

they’re learning probably your mother

tongue and they in exchange help you

with the language that you’re learning

normally their mother tongue for example

if I wanted to learn Spanish I would

find a native Spanish person who wants

to learn English and I would exchange

with them so we have private tutors and

language partners the best way to learn

a language is to combine these two tools

scheduling frequent paid classes with

the private tutors these are normally

easier to find and will help you to

follow a more structured learning

program and complement this with

sessions with a language partner you

learn new skills with the tutor

and put them into practice with the

language partner the sponsor of this

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mobile all you have to do is download

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once you’ve signed in you can explore

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this is especially great as I talked he

also has a language partner program

where you can type in which ever

language you want to practice choose

whether or not you want a native speaker

and even decide where you would like

them to be from you can then see all of

the available language partners and also

see if they are wanting to learn your

language then you can contact them and

see if they’d like to practice I’m so

excited about this app because it means

that you can access this amazing

combination of finding a private tutor

and a language partner from your mobile

phone wherever you are you can access

natives on the go it’s a great way to

participate in customized lessons that

cater to your learning interests and

needs click on the link in the

description box to download the app and

start the process number two another

idea for finding language exchange

partners is contact a local language

school that teaches your language you’ll

be surprised at the amount of language

schools around that teach your language

obviously there are English schools

everywhere but if you live in Poland

there are probably quite a few schools

that teach Polish to foreigners same

firm anywhere else in the world the

teachers and organizers there are

probably desperate to find people that

will practice with their students get in

contact with them with a nice

introductory email and

let them know which languages you speak

and what you are looking to practice you

never know they may be able to put you

in contact with a native speaker I

experienced this firsthand when I

studied Spanish in Spain lots of native

Spanish speakers would come to the

school and put down their name to be

paired up with a native English or

native French speaker if both parties

agreed to meet well we would go to a bar

and practice half an hour in one

language and half an hour in another

normally by the end of the evening it

was just a massive muddle of languages

but it was really really good fun so I

highly recommend that you try out this

method and you might even make some new

friends tip number three could be

considered a little controversial and I

urge you to do this with a lot of care

the third tip is to comment down below

and try and find a like-minded language

partner you’re not necessarily going to

find a native speaker in the comment

section because people are here normally

to learn English but you might find a

nice group of like-minded people that

are all striving to speak fluent English

I know that a lot of people form

Facebook groups and whatsapp groups all

I ask is that you are very very careful

especially if you’re under the age of 18

if you would like to try and find a

language partner then you can comment

down below with your age where you’re

from the languages you speak and the

languages that you are looking to

practice I don’t want to have to say

this but I will say this this is not an

opportunity to find a girlfriend or

boyfriend number four is try playing

video games

another teacher I never thought I would

recommend video games but when I was

teaching in a language school there was

one guy who spoke the most a credible

American English and he’d never been to

America and I said where have you got

this accent and vocabulary from

expecting him to say movies or TV shows

and he said gaming a lot of video games

nowadays have a voice chat option and if

you join a specific server you can

interact with speakers of the language

that you are trying to learn the best

part of this is

no one knows who you are so you don’t

have to be afraid of making mistakes and

you don’t have to be afraid of

embarrassing yourself

if gaming is something that you do

anyway why not try incorporating

practicing English into your hobby if

you manage to find somebody that is

amazingly helpful somebody who corrects

you somebody who teaches you new phrases

try and play with them more often

they’re enjoying themselves anyway you

might as well get something out of the

interaction tip number five is use the

website Meetup

so the website meetup is what it says on

the tin it’s a website where people host

meetups social gatherings a hot topic on

meetup is language exchanges all you

have to do is search language exchange

and your city or town and see if

something is going on in the near future

if there isn’t anything going on try

setting one up yourself it’s a little

bit daunting but you don’t know until

you try at the very least it’s an

amazing opportunity to meet loads of

people from all different parts of the

world I used to go to language exchanges

in London and I absolutely loved them I

always used to Scout a few students as

well when I was teaching funny story

actually about a meet-up I went to a

language exchange in London and there

was a face painter there painting faces

with glitter so all of my friends went

away and got their face painted whilst I

was in the toilet and whilst I was in

the toilet I received a message saying

don’t forget to go straight up and get

your face painted so I went there and

she said what would you like and I said

I don’t know a watermelon and the face

painter looked at me and said you want a

watermelon

I said yes a Waterman and I thought it

would look really cute

I like watermelons it’s one of my

favorite fruits so she said okay I’m

paint you a watermelon on your face

and so she painted this beautiful

glittery watermelon and I went to meet

my friends and they all had the flag of

their country on the father face because

that was the entire point of the

language exchange you had your native

languages flag on your face but I had a

wot man and everyone was coming up to me

so where are you from oh it’s just like

honey do you mind that was meant to be a

joke because honeydew’s a melon no it

was embarrassing I just had to explain I

didn’t understand the whole face

painting process the last tip I have is

number 6 and it is join language

learning groups on Facebook there are so

many groups on Facebook and they can be

a little bit overwhelming my advice is

to look for very small groups or start

your own the groups with 50,000 members

you’d be surprised at how empty they are

a lot of people have joined because it’s

a big group but no one really

participates look for small language

exchange groups on Facebook and join

them and if there aren’t any that look

legit to you start your own and see if

like-minded people join I used to post

in a lot of language learning groups

when I started my channel I used to

share my videos there and I was amazed

at how helpful people were in those

groups they may not all be native

speakers there are a lot of very

accomplished non-native speakers in

these groups and they are so so helpful

to anyone who has a question or a doubt

right that’s it for today’s lesson I

hope you enjoyed it and I hope you

learned something don’t forget to click

on the link in the description box and

download the relaunched I talkie app go

on there find yourself a private tutor

and find yourself a language partner and

combine those two tools honestly it’s a

great way of learning a language don’t

forget to connect with me on all of my

social media I’ve got my facebook my

Instagram and my Twitter and I shall see

you soon for another lesson yeah a

little bit a little bit just gonna make

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