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How much is italki known in your country? Is Language Exchange popular? + one favor to ask I have been using this website for about an year and like it very much. The best thing is to know that there are a lot of people in foreign countries who study your or our language. However, there is one concern I have. I personally would not mind who I talk with, learn English and my super beginning French from, and teach my language to. Nationality and ages are not very important. At the same time, I have a thought that language exchange would be more beneficial when it is done among same ages. The reason I asked the titled question is that there are many teenage italki users especially in English speaking countries. I wonder why there are so many, because I do not see any Japanese teenagers around myself trying to immerse themselves in Language Exchange or try to take advantage of online sources like this. The trend of Language exchange is getting bigger in central Tokyo areas, as far as I know Shibuya where there are so many meetups between Japanese natives and foreigners. But they are mostly for adults and not many teenagers know about language exchange opportunities. Maybe, they just don't know what the heck Language exchange is. Compared to the age where there is no Internet, SNS, Google search, we are so luckily privileged. Does the media in your country introduce website like this in order to encourage people to study English or foreign languages and to be globalized? Maybe no, right? I guess it is because a lot of existing English schools do not want to lose their customers and try to detract customers attentions from independent language resources. What is worse, even though I type a query like "Language Exchange"in Japanese in Google, italki does not get shown in the first page in the Google result. I hate money and ads in this sense. In the end, Could I ask a favor of foreign Japanese learners especially for teenagers and university students? There are some or many Japanese users at the teenage ages or in the early university years, as you can see in the "Lanugage Partner" tab. I am afraid to ask this, but I would really really appreciate it if you could talk to them and kindly introduce them how to benefit from this opportunity? They may be very shy or may be not confident to speak in a foreign language, but once it succeeds, you would be able to know more about how we are. Thank you very much for reading this^^
Apr 26, 2015 3:53 PM
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How much is italki known in your country? Is Language Exchange popular? + one favor to ask

I have been using this website for about a year and like it very much. The best thing is to know that there are a lot of people in foreign countries who study your language. However, there is one concern I have. I personally would not mind who I talk with, learn English and my super beginner French from, and teach my language to. Nationality and ages are not very important.

At the same time, I have a thought that language exchange would be more beneficial when it is done among same ages.

The reason I asked the titled question is that there are many teenage italki users especially in English speaking countries. I wonder why there are so many, because I do not see any Japanese teenagers around myself trying to immerse themselves in Language Exchange or try to take advantage of online sources like this. The trend of Language exchange is getting bigger in central Tokyo areas, as far as I know Shibuya where there are so many meetups between Japanese natives and foreigners. But they are mostly for adults and not many teenagers know about language exchange opportunities. Maybe, they just don't know what the heck Language exchange is. Compared to the age where there is no Internet, SNS, Google search, we are so privileged.

Does the media in your country introduce website like this in order to encourage people to study English or foreign languages and be globalized? Maybe no, right? I guess it is because a lot of existing English schools do not want to lose their customers and try to detract customers' attentions from independent language resources. What is worse, even though I type a query like "Language Exchange"in Japanese in Google, italki does not get shown in the first page in the Google result. I hate money and ads in this sense.

In the end, Could I ask a favor of foreign Japanese learners especially for teenagers and university students? There are some or many Japanese users at the teenage ages or in the early university years, as you can see in the "Lanugage Partner" tab. I am afraid to ask this, but I would really really appreciate it if you could talk to them and kindly introduce them how to benefit from this opportunity? They may be very shy or may be not confident to speak in a foreign language, but once it succeeds, you would be able to know more about how we are. Thank you very much for reading this^^

 

I seen italki on a Youtube ad before and that's how I found this site. Good article by the way, keep it up!

April 26, 2015
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How much is well known is italki known in your country? Is Language Exchange popular? +

One favor to askI have been using this website for about an year and like it very much. The best thing is to know that there are a lot of people in foreign countries who study your or our own language. However, there is one concern I have. I personally would not mind who I talk with, to learn English and my super beginning beginner French from, and teach my language to. Nationality and ages are not very important. 


At the same time, I have a thought do believe that language exchange would be more beneficial when it is done among same ages.

The reason I asked the titled these questions is that there are many teenager italki users especially in English speaking countries. I wonder why there are so many, because I do not see any Japanese teenagers around myself trying to immerse themselves in language exchange or try to take advantage of online sources like this. The trend of language exchanges is getting bigger in central Tokyo areas, as far as I know in Shibuya where there are so many meetups between Japanese natives and foreigners. But they are mostly for adults and not many teenagers know about language exchange opportunities. Maybe, they just don't know what the heck language exchange is. Compared to the age where there is was no Internet, SNS, Google search, we now are so luckily privileged.

Does the media in your country introduce website like this in order to encourage people to study English or foreign languages and to be globalized? Maybe no, right? I guess it is because a lot of existing English schools do not want to lose their customers and try to detract customers attentions from independent language resources. What is worse, even though I type a query like "language exchange" in Japanese in Google, italki does not get shown in the first page in the Google result. I hate money and ads in this sense.

(I don't necessarily think that it's google's fault, language exchange just might not be popular)

In the end, Could I ask a favor of you foreign Japanese learners especially for teenagers and university students? There are some or many Japanese users at the teenage ages or in the early university years, as you can see in the "Lanugage Partner" tab. I am afraid to ask this, but I would really really appreciate it if you could talk to them and kindly introduce to them how to benefit from this opportunity?

(use this instead, "kindly introduce yourself to them")

 

They may be very shy or may be not be confident to speak in a foreign language, but once it succeeds, time goes on you would will become able to understand know more about how we are. Thank you very much for reading this^^

 

Italki is recommended on english websites, lately italki has grown into the best if not the number one site to do language exchanges from - it has all the components needed to learn a language whether that be through paid lessons, message exchanges, chat exchanges and notebook corrections. It seems italki admins are active - not only to improve the site but are involved into the community. Like how they ask for suggestions.

 

Maybe the reason why you don't see many Japanese teenagers on this site is because they learn it in school. You know, naturally the things that you are forced to do, you hate right? Maybe they believe that it will not be useful when they grow up.

 

The problem with doing language exchanges and browsing through people's profile through the language exchange tab, is that you don't know who is actively studying and who isn't. I've had so many interactions with people my age who after a few messages, don't message you back, because they have lost their motivation to learn english. 

April 26, 2015
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