It's very difficult to learn a foreign language if you don't communicate with native speakers. Therefore, competent teachers strongly recommend that students find interlocutors who are native speakers, especially since today it is quite easy to do: there are a lot of ways.
Instructions
Step 1
The most natural, though not the cheapest, way to meet a foreigner is through language tourism. If you go to a country where all people speak the target language, you will not only have a huge number of opportunities for communication, but, most likely, you will have many acquaintances, supporting which, you will improve your knowledge. You can go to another country by choosing language courses in advance, this will further increase the effectiveness of language learning. According to the experience of language learners, in another country, with live communication, the level rises much faster than even with the most intensive language learning at home.
Step 2
Those who, for various reasons, cannot yet afford to go abroad to study the language, can find foreigners to communicate via the Internet. A very good resource for this is the Couchsurfing site. To access the site database, you need to register on it. Then you can invite travelers from countries that interest you from a linguistic point of view, and if you are not ready to invite someone to your home, you can indicate in your profile that you will be happy to chat and show the city. Many travelers who come to Russia are upset that they cannot communicate with the locals, as very few Russian people know at least English. You can be sure that your desire to practice your knowledge will allow you to meet very interesting people. This method is especially good for large cities, where many tourists from all over the world come.
Step 3
A great way to find foreigners who will strive not only to communicate with you, but also to improve your language - these are special services created for this purpose. The most popular are:
- Polyglot
- livemocha.
- Busuu
Step 4
To use any of these sites, you need to register on it. Indicate not only the languages that you learn, but also those that you are ready to teach others, since the resource, first of all, implies mutual assistance. Then you can search for interlocutors by language, country, city, age, gender and other parameters. Once you've picked a few people you want to chat with, send each of them a message. Here, as with ordinary acquaintances, you need to arouse some interest in a person, because the training takes place in the form of conversations on various topics, and if you have nothing to talk about, nothing will work out.
Step 5
In the most extreme case, you can try to find yourself an interlocutor via the Internet. You can use social networks (Myspace, Facebook) and messaging programs (icq, msn, Skype). You need to register in the program or social network, and then start searching. You can filter in the parameters by the language that the person indicates as a native, there are other filter options: city of residence, name and other parameters, they are different for each social network.
