It's hard to start in italki.com

Am I the only person who is finding it very hard to start using italki? I'm not talking about technical problems. I'm feeling really shy and lost. I'm used to having face to face classes. I think that online lessons are a better choice for me now, because I travel a lot and I can't commit myself to attending regular classes. I also like the idea of doing an English-Spanish exchange. I'm not a teacher but I like helping people with my lenguage. So, signing up here seems to be a great idea.

However, I'm feeling a little bit weird. I'm having a hard time trying to find friends and I don't even know what can I write about here, which is very weird for me because I'm a journalist and I always have a lot of things to talk about. Anyway, this is me forcing myself to make a first step in italki. Maybe you, nice English native nice person, will read this, sympathize with my situation and chat with me to help me feel more confident in this enviroment.

Thanks!

My advice would be that you don't go looking for friends straight away, spend a couple of weeks contributing to the community, asking questions, writing notebook entries, but most of all answering any questions that you can about your native language and correcting notebook entries written in it.

If someone sends you a friend request, click on their name or photo which will take you to their profile page, there you can see if the person is learning your language, if they are making contributions to the community, if they are a native speaker of the language you are learning.

As a native English speaker I receive many friendship requests and messages and that is part of the process that I go through to see if the friendship could be mutually beneficial. If you take a look at my profile you will see that I have few friends, that's the way I choose to have it, my friends help me and I help them when I am able too. Welcome to the community and I hope you have a lot of fun here improving your level of English, should you wish to practice speaking English with me and help me with my Spanish, send me a message. Un saludo.

It's hard to start in italki.com

Am I the only person who is finding it very hard to start using italki? I'm not talking about technical problems. I'm feeling really shy and lost. I'm used to taking face to face classes. I think that online lessons are a better choice for me know, because I travel a lot and I can't commit myself to go to regular classes. I also like the idea of doing an english-spanish exchange. I'm not a teacher but I like helping people with my language. So, signing up here seems to be a great idea.

However, I'm feeling a little bit weird. I'm having a hard time trying to find friends and I don't even know what can I write about here, which is very weird for me because I'm a journalist and I always have a lot of things to talk about. Anyway, this is me forcing me to make a first step in italki. Maybe you, a nice English native, will read this, sympathize with my situation and chat with me to feel more confident in this enviroment.

Thanks!

It's hard to start on italki.com

Am I the only person who is finding it very hard to start using italki? I'm not talking about technical problems. I'm feeling really shy and lost. I'm used to taking face to face classes. I think that online lessons are a better choice for me now, because I travel a lot and I can't commit myself to go to regular classes. I also like the idea of doing an English-Spanish exchange. I'm not a teacher but I like helping people with my native language. So, signing up here seems to be a great idea.

However, I'm feeling a little bit weird. I'm having a hard time trying to find friends and I don't even know what can I can write about here, which is very weird in for me because I'm a journalist and I always have a lot of things to talk about. Anyway, this is me forcing myself to take a my first step on italki. Maybe Mind you, english native nice person maybe nice native English speakers will read this, sympatize with my situation and chat with me in order to help me feel more confident in this environment.

Thanks!