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Does anyone else feel icky when it comes to language exchanges? I'm selfish and just wanted to find Koreans who wanted to speak to me in Korean.
How does one navigate exchanging a language when it feels more efficient to work for money and then exchange the money for language lessons 100% in the target language?
But then, how does one find friends when one is only ever paying for the language and natives' time? How does it ever stop being transactional?
I'm probably just way too jaded and need to take a deep breath. But I'd like people's thoughts.
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Mar 19 · 3 days ago · 👍 stack
🚀 stack [mod] · Mar 19 at 04:38:
In the ideal world I can see dedicating some free time to help fellow humans... But I am surprised there is no barter site where you can accumulate tokens by helping others, which you can spend with a tutor of your choice...
I imagine it'd be hard to detect cheating on that sort of barter style website.
🚀 stack [mod] · Mar 19 at 15:48:
@lykso: Really? I haven't thought it through, but it seems doable. The basic unit is time, say in 10-minute increments. You commit time to the system by spending it helping others, likely within the system using audio, video, or text (as timed by the system). The recipient can confirm and/or rate time received. You then have a credit with the system, to be spent on your favorite tutor's time.
Kind of like airline points. Perhaps you can even buy extra time if you need, or borrow if your credit is good.
In the ideal world you don't need to bother with such accounting. In a somewhat decent world you won't want to cheat. A determined psychopath will beat anything.