LANGUAGE TANDEMS
There are many platforms which offer language exchange in Berlin, but a lot of them are more interested in selling their commercial services than actually connecting people. We’d like to help you find your way through the jungle of organizations and companies – so here’s our list for anyone who’s looking for a tandem partner or for language exchange events to improve their speaking skills.
Let’s start with Facebook, where you find the biggest private market for language exchange. The social media giant provides a whole bunch of groups in which you can search for Berlin based tandem partners. All you need to do is join the group and post a request with the language you’d like to learn and the language(s) you can offer. The biggest group here is Language Tandem Facebook with over 56.000 members, followed by Tandem Language Exchange with around 22.000 members.
The latter belongs to an organization with the same name which also offers a regular „Language Exchange Party“, where people from different parts of the worlds meet up and find language partners.
A place to meet new people live and direct is also offered by the Berlin edition of BlaBla Language Exchange project. The organizers offer regular meetings in a cozy atmosphere where all attendees start talking in English, while starting to build new groups as soon as two people match language-wise. This way you can either speak in your mother tongue or sit with people who speak the language you are learning.
If you prefer the app format, you can register at Tandempartner Berlin This app promises pure ‘WhatsApp’ feeling: no websites to check, you can read your notifications immediately and archive them in a clearly organised chat. Could it be any more relaxed?
