@Richard You are exactly right. There is no incentive into creating a peer to peer exchange since it does not bring revenue to the site. So obviously it is heavily skewed towards paid tutoring and this problem will go on.

EDIT: I am not against this business model. I do take a lot of private lessons but I wanted to have some exchange partners to practice outside the classroom environment.

@Leigh There is such section for requesting partners. Like Miguel Angel said, we have to to use search and msg or befriend random users who do not even allow contact sometimes. I find this method very clunky and unsuccessful.

And the problem starting any type  discussion here is that it hastily gets buried over dozens of partner requests, making any long term discussion pretty much infeasible.

Hi Dali.

For a person to master any language, It usually demands years of dedication and constant practice, with some financial investment required. Not to mention there are "different" kinds of english: academic, business, etc.

So it is hard to pinpoint the best method if you do not disclose the reason you need to learn it. You don't have to specify all the details, but you need to give some guidance so people can help you better.

Best regards,

Alex :)