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So, in this article we will talk about how to find yourself a native speaker for practice colloquial speech is free.

Let me tell you a little background: a year ago, I was faced with the question of how to find someone to practice speaking. I analyzed many options, such as language exchange with those who are eager to learn Russian (I must say right away that there are very few such people), hiring a tutor (the minus is that he is usually not a native speaker), going to courses (minus group learning), various services offering lessons with natives (quite expensive in terms of pounds / dollars for rubles), ... But! All of these options have one BIG drawback - they are paid, and the goal was to improve conversational speech absolutely free.

The genes took their toll and the resource analysis process was in full swing. The first site I went to was a site containing a list of popular English and American social networks. Trite, but it worked, I pulled out 10 normal people for a decent conversation. At the same time, I registered on the Interpals language exchange site, but in fact it is the same social network, only called more officially. From there, I also managed to pull out a solid number of people to “chat” on neutral topics. I will separately mention such a site as Scout - also with a large number of users. Personally, I use the app, not the site itself. The feature of this application is that there is a feature called travel. You enter the city you want to go to and it sets your current location as if you were there. People who live in the city that you entered in the form of "travel" will see you and can write to you. I personally always put London, as a result, most people write to me from it. You also see the people who live there, so you can also write to them or just wink.

If you are a girl, and post nice pictures, put in the status on the site that you are not in a relationship, but in search, I assure you, you will not have any problems finding some English or American to talk to. Not quite beautiful, I agree, but think for yourself who wants to communicate with you when you and your martyr or you and your child are on your profile picture ... There are few people ... And in sincere friendship from the first “Hello!” hard to believe, alas. The downside of this communication is that after 2-3 weeks these people begin to understand that you won’t go to the USA or England and send interesting pictures, respectively, interest in your person will go out ... There is also a chance to run into a preoccupied jerk / good man, who will strive to show his wood or say what kind of horny he is. These are everywhere and they manifest themselves immediately, so if you have different goals with them, send them and you will not waste your time ... This method is time consuming, because you need to sort through all these horny and other perverts for quite some time / good people before finding something worthwhile. But, on the other hand, you will get several hours of conversational speech with native speaker for free.

What works for girls doesn't quite work for guys. It’s not enough for a guy to put nice pictures, and mark the status as “in search”. Something else needs to stand out. My friend and I set up an experiment, posted cool pictures on all these sites, where he is in a Porsche, on a yacht ... Not his pictures, of course, and began to wait. I must say right away that the experiment was a success, because quite a lot of people wrote to him. There were also many people who wanted to chat on Skype. But again, after 2-3 weeks of communication, the girls begin to understand that something strange is happening, because the guy speaks only over audio communication, and the video does not even offer (and! does not even cheat on anything!), Which is very unusual , and to reveal the true state of things, of course, he is not going to for obvious reasons. Accordingly, the same thing happens as in the above method, people lose interest and no longer communicate. The probability of a guy running into a horney girl is many times less than a girl running into a horny guy, but some swindler who also wants to be with him in a Porsche or on a yacht, and better both there and there in turn, very much even big. But, again, they show themselves pretty soon, so you can't go wrong ... The method is also time-consuming, but the result is several hours of free spoken English.

My friend and I tried several other ways of free conversation. Here is their list:

1. Call the support of various American / British universities and ask them about the different study programs they offer.

This method rather allows you to cope with the fear of talking to official native speakers rather than just chatting and getting a set of words for anka.

2. Call different hotels/restaurants, ask them about the options they offer.

I had the wildest conversation with the Washington Hilton, figuring out how many pillow options they have on check-in and who each option is for.

3. Skype calls to different lines for those who need support.

This method is more likely to listen to you and understand correctly what you are saying.
The reason for my call was that I am very sad and lonely and I need someone to talk to, preferably with good diction, not very fast speech and so on ...

4. Called in support of various chocolate companies in the US.

For example, I liked talking with representatives of hershey's company. I asked when they would finally launch a line of chocolate with pepper, lemon and garlic ... On the other end of the Internet connection, they asked me how I imagine such a taste and why such a combination.

5. A friend called an American zoo and asked the zoo representative about the animals they have and which of them can be petted.

If you dig on the websites of such companies, you will surely find their free Skype numbers, which you can easily call and chat with their representatives.

The advantage of these methods is that you get out of your comfort zone. You need to figure out what you will ask the representatives of those companies where you call, to be able to get out by answering their questions, not to be embarrassed and not to stand in a stupor from their questions. Personally, for me, this way of learning is much more useful than simple lessons with teachers. Such lessons are trivial, they do not have much stress for the brain, you can forget these lessons pretty quickly, but you can remember a stressful conversation about pillows or a menu in a hotel for a long time. Do not forget that representatives of American companies are usually very polite, so they will listen to you for as long as possible. Of course, this method has disadvantages, one of them is that you will not be corrected if you say something wrong. Another disadvantage is that you need to spend time looking for companies and their free Skype numbers. But, to sum up, this method is very good. The time and effort spent is fully paid off by a free conversation, which, with your ability to chat, can last 10-20 minutes.

It is worth noting that you can test your vocabulary and your grammar. Namely, with such stressful conversations, all your jambs in grammar, listening and speaking, as well as in recognizing fluent American / British speech, will come out.

I outlined my ways of pulling up conversational speech for free, if you have any other options, write in the comments, I will consider it with pleasure.