Lack of trust or perseverance in practice with native speakers...?
I know there might be many corrections to this entry, but anyways. I wanted to express something that came to my mind a couple of days ago. Has this happened to you? You try and contact native speakers of the language you're trying to learn and people do not trust you enough to give you their skype or msn I.D. And here's another, you actually contact someone and chat with them, share views, opinions, and even interests in practicing both of your languages (the usual "you scratch my back and I scratch yours" thing) and then when you finally get to make an arrangement for practicing the speaking skill (via skype, msn or whatever) they suddenly lose interest, don't show up, or don't even contact you again. Or even worse, they go online sometimes but it's like they've never met you. Not to mention those who just added you as a friend and they NEVER, EVER speak to you. Haha. It's just wonderful. Well, it has happened to me many times, on Facebook and some other social networks. Anyway, my point is: I just found this awesome site (italki), and I hope things are different this time for me. Otherwise, if you are one of the people I described above, you're throwing away an opportunity to truly improve your communication skills in chinese, german, spanish, portuguese, french, italian or any other language you look forward to learning. Well, just a reminder of how distrustful we are sometimes. I mean, come on people! This is a learning site, and a nice place to contact someone who can really help you. Greetings to everyone!
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I've had many of the same experiences as you. I don't think it's distrust, I think it's a lack of effort. People finish work and are too tired to talk. And if you arrange a session people might forget, or you and your language partner might 'drift apart'.
And personally, I'm an italki teacher, so talking on skype is something I do for several hours everyday, so when someone wants to contact me to practice languages I often don't feel like it.
ps your English is amazing!
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First of all, we must remember that we are all human beings filled with all the frailties and good all lumped together. Most native speakers from the US or UK live in a different time zone from Asia etc so it is extremely incovenient to have online chats in real time or not. Learners have to catch them when they are online on ITALKI and not some other communication forms. You may be at home relaxing, they may be at work! How would you feel people asking to chat with you while at work etc? Remember this is not a job for them. They don't have to wait and beckon on your calls.
For those who are seriously wanting to learn, forums such as this one is only good for leaving messages and writing essays to be corrected. Trying to learn to speak good is next to impossible unless you spend money to learn in an institution or to live in a place where there are many native speakers.
I hate to say but 99.9999% of the people wanting to be a friend with you is because either they know you are really good at the language and willing to teach them for free or that they just wanted to hook up with you because of your looks. So be realistic.
There are many wanting me to correct their essays. However, I can't help everyone. I only help those who are serious by looking at the number of essays they write. Some does not appreciate in your correction and would like to argue. There are many kinds of people. There good ones and there are bad ones; how many diamonds can one find in a pile of glass beads?
Most of the niceties written are just plain bull shit. Can't take any seriously to heart. I am correcting English essays correcting them is a relaxation for me; to distract my work long enough to find a solution. So whether they want to be my friend or not does not matter. You can always tell by their profile picture... Would you accept friendship if someone comes up to you asking but wearing a mask?
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Oh wondeful , I agree with you very much,
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