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Find someone online who wants to learn your native language, and talk with them for an hour a week split between the languages. If you’re remote, use video so
by troydavis 5y ago
Find someone online who wants to learn your native language, and talk with them for an hour a week split between the languages.
If you’re remote, use video so you can see expressions.
Tell each other how aggressively you want the other person to correct you. For example, if your speech is not what a native would use (it’s not “idiomatic”), do you want them to stop and tell you how they’d have said it? Or is your goal simply communicating your ideas clearly, even if it’s not native-level phrasing? These thresholds can change over time and based on the subject. For example, you might want to be native-level for conversations/topics that come up a lot, and simply good at communicating ideas (not native-level) for other topics.
To find these people, look at local cultural groups in both countries/cultures as well as r/LanguageLearning on Reddit. In Spanish it’s called an intercambio and you can Google for ‘intercambio directory spanish learning’. There’s probably equivalents for other languages. Worst case, you can pay for it through iTalki or Lingoda.