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Difficulty level 1 to 10 for finding a good exchange partner
If 1 is trivially easy and 10 is near impossible, what is the difficulty level of finding a good language exchange partner in your view?

The majority of posts appearing here actually just amount to language exchange requests, many of which go without any response. No one knows how much more goes by the way of unanswered direct messages.

Then one has to deal with varying degrees of seriousness, regularity, time zone adjustment issues, topics of common interest, flexibility to adjust and friendliness. On the whole it just looks like no one is striking gold in this partner search game.

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The question for me is "Why is it so hard to find women language exchange partners?". Since I've been on italki, i've only met one woman. Now we are not only language exchange partners, but also friends.
I would prefer to meet women, because I find that language exchange with the opposite sex, usually ends up with flirting of some sort. The guy is usually looking for more, and if I don't play along with the flirting game and turn them down, it makes things awkward. Then I end up with one less partner.
I have messaged many women for English-Spanish language exchange, and have gotten no response. Then I would visit their page, and see that 100% of their friends are men- haha.
I don't mind learning with men. In fact, I have learned the most from male language exchange partners. After only 7 months, I can speak, write and read Spanish, but of course there was some flirting involved- haha.
Now I'm left to think that other women on here prefer to learn with men. I don't know. 🤷🏽‍♀️
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Pablo, there is also a plenty of girls looking for relationship with a foriegn man.
But men an women behave differently.
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I'd say 8 seems about right. I'm sure it's more like 10 for those who don't speak a language that many other people want to learn.

3. Frequency: Two or three times a week, better if more often

This is the one I seem to have the most difficulty with. I've had three language partners since I joined Italki, but never anyone who was able to meet more than once per week. I'm still meeting with two of those partners now (one of them I just met fairly recently), but they're both available only twice per month. It's hard to make any language progress that way.

(Your age priority set would also be a problem for me -- I don't think I've ever been contacted on Italki by anyone over 40. Rarely even anyone over 30, for that matter. Even the teachers offering my target language are almost all younger than me.)
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Jade CJ has said almost everything that I wanted to say about it but I don't label just about every men out there are like that.
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Som, I'd encourage you to listen to some of the British regional accents before you conclude.

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