A contact pretty selfish I just was remembering a man who I met here. He speaks the English language and learns the Spanish language so, we had to do a language exchange, right? 50% Spanish-50% Englis

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A contact pretty selfish I just was remembering a man who I met here. He speaks the English language and learns the Spanish language so, we had to do a language exchange, right? 50% Spanish-50% English, that was the fair and he knew it. We had two conversations. In the first, we talked about 20 minutes and the second talked about 5 minutes but, the stressful, funny and unfair situation was that he just wanted to speak the Spanish I tried showing him that we had to practice 50% of English (for me) and 50% of Spanish (for him) but he never stopped talking and it was funny too because he wanted to talk like Cubans and his sounded really bad (I don't want to mean Cuban talk bad, just he wanted to imitate) and he also said "I know I have a high level but I need to practice". On my mind, I just wanted to call off the call, I invented something and I could call off. Then, I thought "the next time we have to talk just the English" so, the next time that he messaged me I accept to talk with him and when we started I was about to say him what we have to do (because I wanted to be fair) and suddenly, he started talking just the Spanish again... I couldn't believe that! Immediately, I realized the same situation would happen so, I just call of the call without a reason and removed him. Is that a happy final? I think so haha but I wasted my time in the first call. We have to be fair to our partners!

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A contact pretty selfish

I just> was just remembering a man who I met here. He speaks the English language and is learnsing the Spanish. language So, we had to do a language exchange, right? 50% Spanish-50% English, that's what is was the fair, and he knew it. We had two conversations. In the first, we talked about 20 minutes and the second talked about 5 minutes. But, the stressful, funny and unfair situation was that he just wanted to speak the English! I tried showing him that we had to practice 50% of English (for me) and 50% of Spanish (for him) but he never stopped talking and it was funny too because he wanted to talk like Cubans and his he sounded really bad (I don't want to mean Cuban talk bad, just he wanted to imitate) and he also said "I know I have a high level but I need to practice". Run-on sentence. On my mind, I just wanted to end call off the call, so I made I invented something up and I was able to end the call could call off.

Then, I thought "the next time we have to talk just the English" so, the next time that he messaged me, I accepted to talk with him. and When we started, I was about to say to him what we have to do (because I wanted to be fair) and suddenly, he started talking just the Spanish again... I couldn't believe that! Immediately, I realized the same situation would happen so, I just ended call of the call without a reason and removed him (from?). Is that a happy endingfinal? I think so, haha, but I wasted my time onin the first call.

We have to be fair to our partners!

You said that on the first call he wanted to just speak English. But on the second he wanted to just speak Spanish.

Thanks for your sharing about the bad experience in exchanging language. There is no doubt that such an unfair exchange goes everywhere very often. That seems imply most of the language exchange would be very likely to fail because there are no corresponding rights and obligations ruled by either side. You can leave it or you have to accept it.

A kernel issue is do you have a good plan to learn a language ? or you just take casual interlocutors to speak, to practice? in case you have a detailed scheme of learning a language, you are more than likely to expect your language partners can be more accountable for their acts and accordingly you would find it is more difficult to find a comparable one to practice. In such a circumstance, most of the language learners would prefer to choose a teacher instead of a learner to polish a language with effectiveness.

Sorry, I am not a native speaker so I cannot give you any suggestion to your writing, but I would like to give you another total different point of view to see the context. Good luck to your learning.

A pretty selfish contact pretty selfish

I just was thinking remembering about a man who I met here. He speaks the English language and is learning the Spanish language so, we decided to do a language exchange, right? 50% Spanish-50% English, that was the fair option and he knew it. We had two conversations. In the first, we talked about 20 minutes and the second we talked about 5 minutes but, the stressful, funny and unfair thing about the situation was that he just wanted to speak the English! I tried showing telling him that we had to practice 50% in English (for me) and 50% in Spanish (for him) but he never stopped talking. It was funny too because he wanted to talk like Cubans and he sounded really bad (I don't want to be mean. Cubans don't talk sound bad, he just wanted to imitate them) He also said "I know I have a high level but I need to practice". In my mind, I just wanted to call off the call, so I invented something so that I could call it off.

Then, I thought "the next time we will have to talk just in the English" so, the next time that he messaged me I accepted it to talk with him and when we started I was about to say to him what we have to do (because I wanted to be fair) and suddenly, he started talking only in Spanish again... I couldn't believe that! Immediately, I realized the same situation would happen so, I just called of the call without a reason and removed him. Is that a happy ending final? I think so haha but I wasted my time in the first call.

We have to be fair to our partners!

I went through the very same situation, and some language partners reported it too. She ran off and then kept me waiting for my turn but never showed up. And on top of what, sent me texts to correct. When I wrote back to her, I got no aswer at. all Therefore, the best thing is to to set a clear division of the time, so that people follow your lead. It's good, mainly as a way to get organized, because some friends, without having bad intentions, tend to answer you in a language other than the one by which the conversation started.

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