Language Exchange at Work I've been organizing a language exchange project at the company where I work. The main idea came from the fact that I work at a global company in Hungary where we must know at least 2 foreign languages at an intermediate level or higher to be employed. Most of us speak English but not everybody has the opportunity to use and practice it daily basis. Or if we use it only within the topic of our own daily work and we have no possibility to widen our vocabulary related to other day-to-day topics. Also, many of us are interested not only in developing our current language skills but learning new languages. So the project is about free language learning at our workplace, although it will not count to working hours. The first meeting with the participants is taking place today. I am very excited. I hope there will be enough colleagues in order to organize language sessions weekly based on as much language as much as possible. Personally I am interested in English conversation sessions and Japanese class but occasionally I hope I can attend German classes too. My colleagues filled out a survey earlier and according to it, they are interested in more than 21 languages! I would never have thought. The best part is that it will be totally free as we do not need teachers if there is at least one person who can help others with that language. Each one can teach one or more. Or just we can hold conversation classes where the level of the knowledge does not matter we just chat in a way we can. We will see. 🙂