I’ve only been in the country for a few months and I have a lot of students doing the “how can I improve my speaking?” thing recently.
I’ve lived in other countries where I had more resources at my fingertips but I’m not yet sure of the situation here. I’m already spread quite thin and of course these students don’t want to pay for a tutor or make any effort in their own learning.
All my suggestions are met with “ no I can’t do that”.
How popular is language exchange and where do I recommend they go?
Most of them are trying to corner me into tutoring, and I’m fine with that if I had oodles of time but I really don’t.
Any suggestions? Please and thanks.
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HelloTalk, Tandem are popular language exchange apps. Both Facebook and LINE have language learning groups. There are lot of online services that let you do 30 minutes 1-on-1 online conversation practice everyday for as low as ¥6,000 per month.
let them be, I know you can suggest them a lot of things but if they can keep saying because of these that and etc…, they can’t, you’ll eventually get tired. Help only with what you can. And there is the internet now too and a lot of meet ups, they’ll figure out something if they really want to.
You can tell them about “shadowing” – I’m sure you can find plenty of details about it online. It just means listening to speech (from a video or whatever) and trying to say the same thing at a slight delay. It’s a good way to practice speaking and it’s free and you don’t need another person to even be there.