italki
Recently, I have made a lot of new foreign friends that I found out in italki, which is a wonderful place to meet people. To be honest, it is a fascinating experience that talks to them about various topics we all interested. Thanks to italki, I can learn more about foreigners who are amazing and their countries I have never been to. I really hope one day I can see them all, and visit their families.
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Rather than using the term "foreigners", which just means (everybody else other than us) -- use "people from other countries" or just called folks from Russia "Russians", folks from Japan "Japanese", folks from America, "Americans"
I have had Korean and Chinese foreign students about residents and citizens of Canada as "foreigners" in Canada!
The term "foreigner", in some cultures/languages, appears to mean simply "not like us"
When I lived in Korea and Japan, I did not think of myself as "non-Korean" or "non-Japanese" or "a foreigner" .... I am Canadian!
So, my suggestion to you is to take a more interlocutor-focused approach -- if you're talking about people from Russia, call them Russians. If you're talking people from all that I met on italki, then call them the people from all over that I met on italki, etc.
Hope this makes sense and hope it's a useful bit of
feedback from "a foreigner"... :-)
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