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My Language Exchange is a community that lets you find a partner and practice your second languagewith a native speaker who is learning your language.

It hosts your online practice with lesson plans, how-to guidelines written by
an expert in language exchange learning. Tools include text chat rooms,
phrasal hangman word games, bulletin boards, a multilingual editor for
inserting accented roman characters and links to a machine translator.

A language exchange is two or more people who speak different languages practicing each other's language. For example, an English speaker who is learning French will do a language exchange with a French speaker who is learning English. There are many ways to practice in a language exchange.

My Language Exchange uses the Cormier method of language exchange that has been proven for 3 years at the C.E.L.M. language school in Montreal, Canada. In this method, small mixed groups of native speakers of two languages spend half the time speaking in one language and half the time in the other language. Activities are structured to ensure all areas of language acquisition are exercised such as vocabulary, pronunciation and listening comprehension. In addition, the activities in the Cormier method are designed to enable students to discover the "conversation culture" - how native speakers of the other culture interact. The method relies on ensuring the students have fun and are relaxed to make language practice more enjoyable and therefore more effective.