some of you have asked me about resources to practice speaking... Well, I have good news for you: there are many sites on the Internet where you can find people to share your love of English and, maybe, teach a bit of Spanish in return. So, here you are 10 language exchange
communities you might find interesting and useful:
1. MyEnglishTeacher.eu
We have open discussions on our forum, where you can find people to
practise English with on Skype, WhatsApp, Facebook and Google+.
Feel free to use these pages:
A great language exchange website. You can quickly sign up with your email address, Facebook or Google+ account.
This is what you see when you are inside. You can chat, video talk or
simply voice chat. There are usually at least 10 people in the chat
rooms. Very easy to use. A fantastic website to put your knowledge of
the English language into practice.
The friendly language exchange community. Their website is absolutely
amazing. Beside the main purpose of the site (language exchange), you
are also able to play games to improve your vocabulary and
pronunciation. Test yourself and, of course, share the results with your
friends.
Easy Language Exchange makes language
learning easily accessible and free for all. They provide all the
essential tools to make languages easy for you. Practise how to read,
write and speak with natives.
Although the website is new, it is growing very fast and you will
find many people there. The founders are nice people and you will be in
good company.
LingoGlobe.com is a free Language Exchange
Community. Learn and practice foreign languages with native speakers.
Discuss on the Lingo Globe language forum or even through live chat.
italki is a language learning social
network that connects students and language teachers. You can find
language exchange partners, practise speaking a foreign language, ask
questions, find free online language resources and get help from an
international community of language learners.
italki has been around for a while and is becoming one of the most popular language exchange communities in the world.
Verbling lets language learners instantly connect with native speakers around the world through live video.
Right now on Verbling, you can learn
languages like English, Spanish, Arabic, Mandarin, French, German,
Hebrew, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese and Russian.
This particular project was created by a polish guy, Greg. @LangExchange. His website works really well. The community is live, and personally, I loved his other projects as well.
Knowing the meaning of a word is useful, but knowing how to use it
in context is vital. Words aren't used in isolation and will often
form part of an expression or fixed set of words. Being able to call on
these 'chunks' of vocabulary will help you to improve English fluency
skills. READ ON BY CLICKING ON THE LINK ABOVE.
Deceptive appearances: seeing looks in a new
light
When Lizzie Velasquez was
in high school, she found a video of herself on the internet: “The World’s
Ugliest Woman,” the eight-second clip called her. It attracted thousands of
comments - some of them suggesting she “do the world a favour” by killing herself.
Instead, the now 25-year-old became a motivational speaker. Last year, she
presented a TED talk about her experiences. Viewed by millions of people around
the world, its core question was: what defines you? As a result of an extremely
rare syndrome preventing her from gaining weight and building muscle, Lizzie’s
appearance deviates significantly from the norm. After being ridiculed online,
her public refusal to allow the way she looks to define her went viral. Today,
she is a minor celebrity and the author of two books. (Source: You can read the complete article here) Watch Lizzie’s famous Ted Talk and answer the following questions:
1.How would you describe Lizzie?
Choose adjectives to describe her personality.
2.Sum up Lizzie’s first day of school.
How did she feel?
3.In which ways was Lizzie bullied in
school? What did she decide to do?
4.Lizzie has a great sense of humour,
can you remember any of the jokes she makes during her speech?
