希望你与我分享网上学外语的经验
以前有个网站叫LiveMocha,有人用过吗？后来它被Rosetta Stone买下来，就不让人在上头和学外语的伙伴们交朋友了。很高兴找到ｉｔａｌｋｉ这个网站，看来挺有经营头脑，希望它能帮助更多学外语的朋友。
我现在在康州念书，正做一个和社群网站学外语有关的研究。如果你能分享你的经验，我将非常感激。如果你可以帮我用“评论”回答以下任何一个问题，对我都是莫大的帮助。中英皆可！谢谢
1. How have you used online language exchange communities in your language study and for any other purposes?
2. How have you built your network in the language exchange community?
3. How would you describe the experiences of your online interactions with native speakers?
(How do you find them? How often do you chat or exchange messages with native speakers? How did the interactions improve your Chinese/English? How did the interactions increase your learning interest?)
4. Tell me about your online interactions with other language learners, and particularly any incidents where you remember picking up more English/Chinese?
5. Besides practicing language, many people also appreciate the opportunities to make friends in online language communities. Please tell me if there are cases that you focused more on developing a friendship than practicing the language when you engaged in language exchange activities? Please also tell me if there are any cases where you helped online language exchange community members learn a language primarily to build friendship.
6. How would you describe your role in the online language exchange community? Do you feel you are important to other learners? Why or why not?
7. Please tell me about your English/Chinese studies experience before you join the online exchange community. How do you see the difference of learning in the online exchange community and learning in school?
8. How would you describe an ideal learning community for your study of English/Chinese?
9. Is there anything else you would like to tell me about your experience with learning Chinese/English through social media, anything I didn’t ask you about?
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1.) italki was my first language exchange community. I use it primarily to find Chinese teachers and other language learners to engage with.
2.) Yes, I have many language partners now that I met initially through italki.
3.) italki makes it easy to find other language learners. You just select which language you want to learn and the system pulls up a list of people willing to help you learn the language.
I chat via QQ with other language learners at least 4 out of 7 days. I have voice chats at least 3 times a week.
The QQ chats have improved my Chinese grammar and character recognition. The voice chats have giving me more confidence, have improved my reading, and have improved my conversational Chinese. (I still have a long way to go with my conversational Chinese.)
4.) My interactions with other language learners have been good. I find that it is best to find someone in the same situation you are in. It seems that those with little English comprehension are much more eager to chat and engage with you in conversation. Whereas those who have good English skills, are either teachers and tutors who want to be paid, or who are looking for someone close to their level of Chinese to help them further improve their English. At my level of Chinese, I seem to frustrate those who are really good at English because they spend more time helping me then me helping them.
5.) Because my Chinese is not very good, I focus most of my time on finding someone who wants to learn English in exchange for Chinese. However, over time these people have become a virtual Chinese immersion community for me. I have gotten to know them and they have gotten to know me. My goal for learning Chinese is to help Chinese people learn more about the Bible. So, sometimes we do not focus on the language, but end up discussing Bible related topics.
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