Hello, I'm a native Spanish speaker looking for a language exchange with someone from UK (native speaker) , I'm trying to improve my comprehension an fluency mostly for professional purposes (I'm working with colleagues from UK), so if you are from UK (mainly London, Bristol, Birmingham, Edinburgh, etc) and want to practice your Spanish let me know, send me a message.
Availability; Fridays and Weekends afternoons (around 5pm, Spanish time).
My English Level: Upper Intermediate.
Men or Women really interested in practicizing in a relax, funny and respectful way.
Thanks.
Does someone know any website with videos/podcasts in English -advanced level- with transcripts? ... subjects like business, technology, science, history, etc.
By the way I'm looking for a Spanish-English language exchange with somebody from UK (London, Bristol, Birmingham...), In my work I have to talk with collegues from those cities and I need to improve my comprehension.
Thanks.
Regards.
Even though we receive many language exchange requests every week, the probability of getting to talk with some of those contacts is very low, much lower than I'd had imagined when I started using italki. Of course, most of us have family, job, and busy schedules but sincerely I think the biggest barrier is to be afraid of embarrassment of talking with an unknown person and expose part of our life. Not to mention the stressful feeling of making mistakes while our brain and tongue are struggling to express our ideas in the way we are used to do it in our first language.
In my personal experience when I get nervous before or during a conversation the magic solution has been to break the ice with a smile, positive attitude and sense of humor. I've always heard that we learn from making mistakes, so if I'm going to learn from every error, bad pronunciation and wrong usage of the grammar, I'm ready to learn a lot .. a lot, literally! ;)
What has been your experience about it?
