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hi, i'm vanessa from speakenglishwithvanessa.com. how can you get an english speaking partner? let's talk about it. there are hundreds, thousands, maybe evenmillions of english learners around the world needing and wanting to speak english, butmaybe, like you in your city, there's not someone who you know already who you can speakwith, but all of these millions of people around the world are looking for someone totalk to. today, i want to give you three ways thatyou can find someone who you can talk with. before we get started, i want to talk abouta myth about english speaking partners.
a myth is something that's not true. usually it's a story or an idea that peoplehave about something that's not true. the myth about english speaking partners isthat if you speak with another english learner, you will not improve. a lot of my students have told me this. they've said, "vanessa, i don't want to speakwith another english learner because i'm not going to be challenged. i'm not going to get feedback." i understand where you're coming from.
i understand this idea, that you want to speakwith someone who is going to challenge you, but the reality is maybe you can't alwaysfind a native speaker who you can talk with, and from my personal experience, i have foundthat just having a chance to use the language is going to help you improve. now, i do recommend if you speak with anotherenglish learner that you have a similar level. of course, if you are a beginner, you don'twant to speak with an advanced learner, and an advanced learner is not going to want tospeak with a beginner. it's great to have someone who is a similarlevel, maybe a little bit above your level, but i think everyone has different strengths.
maybe someone knows different vocabulary thanyou know and you have a different kind of sentence structure than they have. you can still help each other. personally for me with french, this has helpedme a lot. about twice a month, i get together with agroup in my city and none of us are native french speakers. we're all from the us. we all live in my city, but we all speak frenchtogether. why?
just because we want to use the language. sometimes we need to look something up ina dictionary. sometimes we ask another friend who's in thegroup who knows more than us, but we are using the language, and that's what i want for you. right now i'm at a french meetup. we're speaking french together, and i justwanted to encourage you that you can go to your city, find an english speaking grouplike this. we're speaking french together, but we'reall americans, and you can do it. this is great.
go to the internet. go to different facebook groups where youcan meet other people in your city. meetup.com is a great place. that's how we all met each other, and do it. speak english. you can do it. bye everyone. let's talk about the first way that you canmeet an english speaking partner. the first way is maybe something that you'vealready tried.
it is to go online and search in google inenglish, "english speaking partner," or, "language exchange partner." i'm not going to give you any websites thati recommend for this because personally, i haven't used this. i know other people have done this successfully. they found people in their cities or aroundthe world who want to do a language exchange. for me, i haven't successfully done that,so i don't want to recommend something i haven't used myself. i always try to be honest with my recommendations,so this is a possibility.
it's an option that you can use, but i thinkthe second and third recommendations are going to be a little bit more clear. it's something that i've tried myself, solet's go to the second one. my second recommendation is to go on facebook. on facebook, when you go to an english pageor an english group, if you meet someone who seems friendly, they're always leaving greatcomments and you too are also leaving good comments, you can connect with them. send them a message. ask, "hi.
i don't want to bother you, but i was wondering,would you like to talk on skype?" this is a really polite sentence and you'renot saying, "skype please." you are asking them politely, "i don't wantto bother you, but would you be interested in talking with me on skype for 15 minutes,a short time, just to get to know each other?" this is a good start. it's a good way to get to know someone, sofinding someone on facebook in a place where you already have a mutual interest, a placethat you can connect with each other. my third recommendation for finding an englishspeaking partner is to join the course the fearless fluency club.
in the fearless fluency club, i will provideyou with a document where you can introduce yourself and find other people who have similarinterests. this is one of the benefits of joining theclub is that you can use the materials that i've sent to you. you can speak using the conversation questions. you can meet once a week with your speakingpartner, or more if you'd like, and you can have a focused way to study english. you can use the material, improve together,and get my feedback. if you'd like to join the fearless fluencyclub, you can click the link up here, the
little i, or in the description below. i'd love to help you connect with someoneelse who you enjoy and who is going to challenge your english and just give you the opportunityto speak. now, i have a question for you. i want to ask you, what do you think is animportant quality in an english speaking partner? do they need to be friendly? do they need to be from your country, maybenot from your country? do they need to have a specific interest,the same interest in you? let me know in the comments below.
what is a priority for you in an english speakingpartner? thanks so much and i'll see you next time. bye. do you want to find a good quality englishspeaking partner? join the fearless fluency club and speak englisheach week. click on the i in the top right corner orclick on the link in the description below to join. in this course, i encourage all members toconnect with each other on skype once a week. i will provide tips and conversation questionsso that you can use everything that you are
learning in the course. don't wait to become a fearless fluent englishspeaker.