TLC Language Exchanges

Language Exchanges organized by ESL in Canada

Language Exchanges Wanted

Toronto Language Exchanges Wanted

Maya Sonoda (F)
- Japan
- future career Medical Transcripts
- Likes ER TV show, Baseball
- will trade First Language Japanese for Business English in Toronto

Scarlett (F)
- Korea
- Career Librarian
- likes Library & information
- likes swimming, exercising,
- R & B music, singing, dancing, Ugly Betty TV show, Lord of the Rings movie
- will trade First Language Korean for Business English in Toronto

Serina Lin (F)
- Taiwan
- Career Education Publishing and consulting
- likes ping pong, Theatre, hiking and birdwatching
- will trade First Language Mandarin for Business English in Toronto Anna Moroz (F)
- Ukraine
- international tourism
- likes dancing, singing, going to the cinema with friends and communicating
- will trade First Language Ukraine for Spanish in Toronto

Ljiljana (F)
- Croatia (Hrvatska)
- freelancer translator/writer
- likes finding bits of unusual information, and thinking about a Big Picture
- will trade Serbian or Croatian for French or Spanish

Hyunwoo Park (M)
- Korea (South)
- Main interest in School: Media
- Favorite Foods: sliced pork
- trade Korean for English

Nimeh Ibrahim (F)
- Jordan
- will trade Arabic for English

Byambadulam Battumur (F)
- job description: nurse
- Favorite Movies:titanic
- trade Mongolian for English

Criteria for Language Exchange Partnership Success

Language exchanges are a great way to develop your target language fluency, learn new vocabulary, learn about the culture associated with the language, build your confidence and even save money.

Like all partnerships - you have to work well with your language exchange partner.

There are a few basic criteria which can determine whether the language exchange partnership will give both partners an equal opportunity to learn and advance your language skills and abilities.

The first criteria is giving equal time to each of the two languages.

The second criteria is what type of language use is your goal. If you are both in business and want to use the other language for business - wonderful you can really help each other.

Are you both structured, organized and prepared or just free talking? - both you and your partner have to be able to operate at the same work level. A partnership where one is always well prepared and the other just shows up is doomed to fail.

Are you both able to remain positive and supportive through a difficult and complicated process. Remember that beginners start speaking with 100% mistakes. It takes a lot of explanation, demonstration and practice to be able to speak the target language with fewer and fewer mistakes.

Registration for Language Exchanges

Students will be matched who wish to speak a second language. Students who speak English as a first language and wish to speak another language will be matched with Students who speak the other language as a first language. Speakers of Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Korean, Japanese, German, Russian, Chinese, French, and others will be matched to Native English speakers who wish to practice their second language.

Full Name

Residence address

Telephone

Email address

First Language as a Native Speaker

Second Language you wish to practice.

Age

Male or Female

Education Level or Year in HS, College, University, BA. MA. PHD

Major or Main interest in School

Type of Work and job description

Do you like sports, Hockey, football, baseball, basketball, other

Do you like Dance, Opera, Theatre, Art, other

Favorite Music, TV shows, Movies, Foods

Average Computer time per week?

Other activities or Hobbies or Interests

Best days and time to language exchange for 1 hour.

Additional questions will be asked at the initial interviews to determine suitability.

To begin please attend one of the free language exchange introduction meetings.

We also have many language exchange partners who attend the free English classes held on Monday and Wednesday evenings in downtown Toronto.

Use this link to read additional information about the free Toronto English classes.

You can also use this link to the: TLC Language Exchange Registration Form

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