我想练习中文

I think it’s another post of searching for conversation exchange partner, but with some details. Actually, it’s more like a desperate message in order to find people with the same mindset. Currently, I’m in a situation where I fanatically study Chinese for hours alone and everyday, since I have lots of free time and no money to pay for private lessons. I’ve already found a few conversation buddies, and I love them very much, but we speak rarely since they are busy, so they are more like pen-pals.

What I'm looking for is 1-3 people who are ready to do a sort of language marathon, where we work 1-2 hours a day, each language, almost everyday or once in two days for about 1-2 months.

Also, I would love to talk about the format, since usually conversation exchange is just a dialogue where we say a couple of phrases in target languages and then have no idea what to discuss afterwards. To prevent such a waste of time, from my side, I offer well-prepared activities in English or Russian, or if you like, language lessons with books and materials. It’s for free, and I’m ready to invest a lot of time in you, but I need the same attitude in exchange. I’m not asking you to be professional tutors, but I want to see a sincere wish to help the person on the other side to improve the language. 

If you’re interested, now I’ll write some technical information:

1) Up to this moment, I have more or less A2 level in Chinese (can pass HSK3), so at this point I can benefit from everyone who has decent Chinese, and not only natives.

2) To make the whole thing effective, you should be at least A2 in English or Russian

3) If you’re A2-B1+, I can offer traditional English lessons with books and stuff.

4) If you’re B2+ guys, I’m not sure If I have enough skill to teach you, but I can prepare conversation activities. If you’re interested, I can share my experience of passing IELTS (I passed it with 7.5)

5) I’m a native Russian speaker, but I’m not a teacher of Russian to foreigners. I can’t provide you with good lessons, but if you really want it, I will spend some time to do research. Also, I used to help foreigners learning Russian in the past, and I remember how difficult it was to find adequate teaching materials for them. So, in terms of teaching Russian, I can promise nothing, but I’m able to prepare conversation activities, according to your current skill.

6) Overall, I see it as 1-2 hours of planned activities from each side everyday or once in two days. We can try to work more, but I’m not sure if we can handle the pace. I think it’s available for students on summer holidays, or unemployed losers like me xD. 

P.S. When I discussed such a matter with my friends, they asked me “Why don’t I want to be a tutor, and then spend money for private lessons?” In short, I don’t believe that the attitude I’m looking for can be bought with money. Yeah, now you can call me an idealist.