Talk DAILY with Native English Speakers Easily Find a Speaking Partner
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
video i talked ii is the perfect
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once you’ve signed in you can explore
everything the app has to offer
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
this Apple
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