Today you’ll learn how to study languages smarter and faster.
You’ll also find out how to use your own native language to help you learn English!
Try a language exchange! A language exchange works like this: find someone in your local city who speaks your target language (English) as a native and who is also learning your native language.
Sit down with them in a cafe once per week and split the time speaking in your language and their language.
This is free and it’s a great way to practice!
Two important thing to remember about language exchanges:
1- Your partner must correct your mistakes immediately- be sure to ask them to do that!
2- You should use some kind of materials to go deeper than small talk. Read the newspaper today, work through discussion questions from a podcast or talk about a recent movie or TV show that you watched
Before you get started, read these tips on common language exchange mistakes.
Here are some places to get your language exchange online:
1- Live Mocha
3- The Mixxer
4- Craigslist
5- Meetup
6- Your local university might have a language exchange program
Now that you know what a language exchange is and how to set it up, go get started!
Practice, practice, practice!
Good luck!
Leave a comment and tell us how your language exchange is going.
