Real Chinese to help you with your Chinese learning!
neuron
September 09, 2009 at 12:51 AM posted in General DiscussionIt's not ad, just an idea of mine.
Would you be willing to learn Chinese with real Chinese people from China(through video&audio chat maybe)? A lot of Chinese people are learning English nowadays and from what I see many of them want to have an English-speaking pal to practice their English with.
So the basic idea is that we can have a kind of thing through which people from China can teach you Chinese and then in turn you teach them English! This is just like helping each other(so of course it's free for both sides). I have been looking for such a platform and have never found one.
Are you guys interested in this kind of thing? Maybe somebody should create such a platform!
neuron
September 09, 2009 at 02:24 AM
ah... just found this website:
www.livemocha.com
it allows you to chat with learners of many many languages for free and it has more than 2M members...
so there indeed is such a platform
you guys can check it out and chat with Chinese people!
neuron
September 09, 2009 at 01:53 AM
true... there are too many Chinese people learning Engish and too few English-speaking people learning Chinese...
sydcarten
September 09, 2009 at 01:48 AM
there are already quite a few people in China posting here with personal offers of mutual language assistance with English speakers.
maybe what is needed is someone to organise this market of linguistic demand.
their first priority would probably be to sell the idea to English speakers, as there seems to be a shortfall of reciprocal demand amongst them.
neuron
September 09, 2009 at 02:26 AMbtw, that livemocha website appears to have a little problem with Chrome. use Firefox with it is okay