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Do you run out of subjects while chatting? It's silly that while chatting with your language partner, you reach a dead end and don't know what to talk about. You start the conversation by the usual salutation: "Hi, How are you?" "I'm great, thanks. And you?" then your mind goes blank. It's really difficult to find things in common between you and a stranger of a different country. What interests you may not interest them and vise versa. This can lead to short language partnership time, for example, you chat 3 or 4 times and stop. At least, this tends to happen with me. Does it happen with you too? (Please correct both the script and the pronunciation, thanks)

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Do you run out of subjects while chatting?

It's silly that while chatting with your language partner, you reach a dead end and don't know what to talk about. You start the conversation by the usual salutation: "Hi, How are you?" "I'm great, thanks. And you?" then your mind goes blank. It's really difficult to find things in common between you and a stranger of a different country. What interests you may not interest them and vise versa. This can lead to short language partnership time, for example, you chat 3 or 4 times and stop.
At least, this tends to happen with me. Does it happen with you too?
(Please correct both the script and the pronunciation, thanks)

 

Hello, Heba. I agree with a lot of what you say. I think it's important to show real interest in each other's culture and have questions prepared in advance. I also think people should seek out a language partner who is compatible. Quite often I have seen members who have only been with italki for a month and have 400 language partners/followers. It's impossible to chat to all and I believe members should focus on perhaps 3 or 4 partners rather than adding people who they will have no further contact with. Anyway, your English here is almost perfect. You start a conversation with the words......and the phrase is vice-versa from Latin. Your commas are all in the right places and the article is punctuated corectly.  

 

Do you run out of subjects while chatting?

It's silly that while chatting with your language partner, you reach a dead end and don't know what to talk about. You start the conversation with (by) the usual salutation: "Hi, How are you?" "I'm great, thanks. And you?" then your mind goes blank. It's really difficult to find things in common between you and a stranger of a different country. What interests you may not interest them and vice (vise)  versa. This can lead to short language partnership time, for example, you chat 3 or 4 times and stop. At least, this tends to happen with me. Does it happen with you too? (Please correct both the script and the pronunciation, thanks)

 

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you said:

Salu.ation, you normally say salye-'tei-shen

as of interest you said "interEsts"

you change that sound in to an "i" not "E" and you can omit the first "e" sound to be "intrist"

 

you are good!

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You mispronounce the word "Salutation" missing to pronounce the first T in the word saying Sal-u-ation instead of Sal-u-tation. This was my first correction so please let me know if you understand what I mean.

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Thanks Nacir.
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"Interests", you pronounced it like "intere-sEts".

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