I’ve been wondering for a while, i wanted to start speaking with a real japanese, since i’m studying for N3 currently i can do the majority of daily conversation. Are there any discord servers/sun reddits/ig gcs or any way to talk with people jn Japanese online?
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Have you tried [https://www.reddit.com/r/language_exchange/](https://www.reddit.com/r/language_exchange/) or HelloTalk ?
Have you tried looking up Japanese language / cultural exchanges or meet ups in your area?. I host a Japanese meet up and a lot of people come talk about Japan, improve their languages or make friends
The HelloTalk app is very handy for this.
I’d try /r/language_exchange.
try [tandem.net](https://tandem.net) ; it’s free and so many Japanese looking for language exchange partners.
Thank you all for your kind comments and recommendations! I’ve alresdy found a partner
Slowly.com
Change your location on all your devices. That’s what I have done, I changed my location to Japan, and on all my social media apps like YouTube, Twitter, etc. I get content by Japanese people for Japanese people. It’s definitely given me countless opportunities to interact with the people, but translating everything for yourself is a struggle. It’s worth it though.
Hi. Im also at n3 level. 私 と 話してもいいですか
seconding r/language_exchange and game discords, many of them have channels for different regions like japanese. I met someone on r/language_exchange the last year and we discord every day, helps with outpt
Italki.com is a great way to meet pen pals and/or language tutors
Langmate is actually a great app for this
Online on Nintendo games I always see loads of Japanese players
I second gaming with Japanese people. My Japanese speaking drastically improved from it. And I’m someone who lives in Japan and still struggle to find folks to talk with.
I have been studying Japanese by using Japanese for Busy People and I’m also thinking about the same thing. Hope I could used some help too 🥺
Since you’re already on reddit: r/lowlevelaware
Also probably teaches you more interesting Japanese than これはペンですか
I’m still learning English after 30+ years living in an English speaking country. Can anyone tell me what “meef” means?
Tandem
Maybe Slowly can help? It simulates how long a real letter would take to get to the recipient. Say you’re from California and sent a Slowly message to a Nevada person. Not too long. If the Cali guy sends to Japan, it’ll be considerably longer. You can select multiple languages and edit them based on your proficiency. Everyone I came across were chill people happy to hear (in my case) an American that’s showing genuine interest in their country and the unique cool things. I had this one Japanese user connected to me who was a 1/5 with English but a 5/5 in Japanese, whereas I had the reciprocal. We taught each other language skills and recipes and whatever came up.
lmao meef
theres langmate, its a japanese app so theres lots of japanese people on it. pretty much a dating app but you can meef people to talk to
Tandem app