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Re: "Does anyone else feel icky when it comes to language..."

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저도 한국어를 공부하는데요. ㅋㅋ

I've used Tandem to chat with Korean speakers. It's a site/app with a small subscription fee. I just start the conversation in Korean, and often it stays in Korean.

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Mar 24 · 5 months ago

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🐙 norayr · Mar 26 at 02:42:

i would just try to find korean forums and chats and blogs and would read those.

that's how i learned english. i had to read, and i had to write. and i wrote with lots of mistakes. but that's okay. more you are in that environment, more you learn.

also getting to know more about perception of the people who communicate in korean is fun.

🚀 lykso · Mar 31 at 01:51:

@stack I see. Credits are initially purchased but can then also be earned. I thought you meant they were created in that way too.

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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...

💬 StanStani · 8 comments · 1 like · Mar 19 · 5 months ago