iSKILLu

Face 2 face! I believe the best way to develop your language skills is to actually interact with people! Of course, it would be awesome to do it with mother tongue speakers!

@Dora: I personally think that when learning the basics its safer to go with professional tutoring..to avoid learning mistakes that could grow bigger and bigger, and negatively influence further language development. Once this basis has been acquired, I believe that exchanging knowledge with as many people as possible is an extremely versatile and useful tool to go deeper in the study of a language! (or any other subject, as well)

During the last few years, I've been collaborating with an international team with the goal of building a web portal to connect people who want to share&learn any subject, using a time-based economy. This means that (for example) 1 hour of teaching gives you 1 credit to be spent receiving a 1 hour lesson from other users, in any other subject you might want to learn! We are really really close to complete the site: indeed, we are planning to launch in January! It's really exciting.. we have gone through countless challenges to make this dream come true!

Personally, I think that being able to trade knowledge with other people all around the world, for free, will be pretty revolutionary!

Hi everyone!

What do you think of language sharing? Have you ever received language lessons from someone, sharing your knowledge about your mother tongue in return?

I believe this is an extremely effective way of learning new languages! Its a clever way to trade something you already know for something you want to learn!

I am aware that some people just aren't comfortable with this way of learning, maybe because of shyness or diffidence.. What do you think?

Here's how I would do it:

First, talk to Mr. Johnson. Then see the supervisor for the next meeting.

I really like the word will. As in 'by maintaining a strong will, I am sure I can reach every goal in life'. Its a word that reminds me that things can be accomplished by keeping a strong and focused attitude!