Advice for Tandem Language Learning

Talk about your goals:

• What are your personal goals?
  • To gain some speaking-practice?
  • To prepare for a year abroad or a language-test?
• What are my partner’s goals? Do they match my goals?

Corrections:

• How do we deal with mistakes?
• Do we correct every mistake or only grave mistakes?

Find topics you can talk about:

• At the beginning: talk about yourself, your personal interests, your hometown…
• Search for topics you can talk about: a newspaper article, a book, current events…There are many different possibilities.
• You can find material her: seagull-tandem.eu

 How do we talk?

• Try to spend an equal amount of time for each language
• Try not to switch from one language to the other in the middle of a sentence
• You won’t be able to have an answer to all the questions your partner asks; you are not a teacher

 Some more advice:

• Try to take notes
• Write down any new word you've learned from your partner
  • It is good to see some “results” so you continue being motivated
• Try to meet regularly. Practice makes perfect  :)