ITT Foreign Language Meetups in your hometown. I'll start:
In Portland Oregon, Costello's travel cafe hosts French, German, Italian and other language evenings once a month. Often a bunch of old expats trying to re-live their European youth. Kind of pathetic but good for conversation practice because they are fluent in your target language. Also occasional hotties and other students, but don't bank on it. Not spamming, I don't have a dime in this fucking place. costellostravelcaffe.com, with two effs.
p.s. they serve beer & wine
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Anonymous2009-10-23 22:28
Uh whoops maybe not your hometown, just the town you're living in now.
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Anonymous2009-10-24 5:41
OK, i'm learning japanese right now
as you can probably guess what sorts of individuals usually pick up that language (be it in ITI or IRL), you'll find out what a bad idea this is going to these kind of events. because were I live, only weeaboos use it, so no.
Not OP, but does anybody have any good websites for learning Hangul?
I have the first 2 levels of the Ganada Korean Institute's course on the way to me, should be here soon hopefully, if customs doesn't keep hold of them for too long. I would just like to get the alphabet down though, before I start on the course itself.
I want to teach English abroad once I finish my degree and get my TEFL certificate, it seems S.Korea pays well and is pretty easy to get a job with no experience. Add to that, Europe's largest Korean community is a short bus ride away from me, it sounds like as good a place as any to start with.
Amazing. I try to get people to meet for foreign language practice IRL, which is the only kind that counts... and with all the thousands of people on /lang, what do I get? An idiot and a troll.
My god, why don't I just go back to fucking livejournal.
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Anonymous2009-10-29 13:29
>>10
There are not thousands of people in this board.
We are all shut-ins, nobody wants to meet people.
I'm sorry to tell you this, Anon :(
I'm a Korean student in Monterey California and i'm interested by this. Any Koreans on here?
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Anonymous2009-11-22 0:05
Yea I would be sorta interested in meeting a group like this depending on what the language is & how many people are going to be there. If its something like japanese, I wouldnt go because I dont want to be stuck around weeboos or 40-50 year old dudes who will pay $100s to have a geisha pour them drinks.
Another problem would be that some people just get along better. I mean if its a guy speaker he will most likely meet with the girl whos trying to learn & if its a girl all the guys will hit on her with their broken _x-lang_.