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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  :)