This is an All-Ears English podcast episode 142.

Skype me maybe?

Top three don'ts for meeting English speakers online.

Welcome to the All-Eears English Podcast where you'll finally get real native English

conversation and fluency for business and life. We believe in connection not perfection when it comes to

learning English. Now here are your hosts, Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer, and Michelle Kaplan, the New York radio girl coming to

you from Boston and New York City, USA. Do you have an American language exchange partner? If so, don't make these three cultural mistakes when it comes

to setting up meetings online How's it going Michelle? How are you today? I'm good. How are you today?

I'm good. How are you?

I'm doing pretty well. Doing pretty well.

But you know, sometimes today we're actually talking about an

interesting topic you know in the past so lately I've been doing more language

exchanges to learn Spanish actually in online rather than in person.

Wow, okay.

Yeah, but I'm finding that there's some mistakes that people can make sometimes when and some cultural differences around

setting up online meetings have you ever found this before that it can be

different across cultures right maybe something with the timing or the language you'd use for it. Yeah. Yeah, it's so true. I mean so today guys we're going to talk about what are three possible mistakes you might be making if you're setting up a

language exchange or even a lesson but probably more likely a free exchange

right we're not talking about exchanging any money it's just a situation where you're

meeting someone probably a native speaker to speak English and practice English

Michelle have you ever done this when you're learning a language? I actually haven't like really like formally I haven't really formally done it.

I know you have I think that's so cool.

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