Hello all!

I'm very new to italki and I've already had a few Language Partner requests, so I was wondering what people's experiences have been?

I can see that there could be real benefits to talking with native speakers, but I'm concerned that if you are both learning each others' languages, then you don't have a common language when you get into difficulty. Couldn't you both end up leading each other down the wrong path?

Many thanks for any thoughts.