r/LanguageBuds

Hi everyone!
If you are learning Russian or want to start, I’m a native Russian speaker and I can help you practice.
We can text, work on grammar, exchange voice messages, or sometimes have video calls if needed, for example to practice reading or pronunciation. This would be more like friendly language practice than formal tutoring.
If you’re interested, feel free to send me a private message and tell me a little about yourself.
I’m 37, female. I love books in all formats: paper, ebooks, and audiobooks. I also love video games, especially pixel games. I love swings, coffee, autumn, and winter, although I haven’t seen real autumn or winter for a long time because I currently live in a place where it’s always warm.
Even if you’re not looking for Russian practice but just want to make a friend, you can also message me. Please note: I’m looking for friendship, not romance.

Hi everyone 👋🏻

I am a computer Science student and l have recently started learning Thai.Right now,l am mainly looking for help with pronunciation and basic conversations,since l think speaking with a native speaker is best way to improve.✨

In exchange,l would be happy to help you practice English or help with Hindi, Marathi, or Kannada

I am looking for a geniune language exchange where we both can learn at our own pace.

If you are interested,feel free to leave a comment or send me a dm.

Thank you!😊

Hello everyone, I am a 28-year-old man from Vietnam. I have been learning English for over 10 years but I don't speak English fluently. I'm looking for a friend who can help me speak English more fluently.

I'll help you learn Vietnamese and the culture of my country. If you want to travel to Vietnam, I will assist you to have a better experience.

Thank you very much.

I’m Chinese American born in USA and am a native English speaker. I speak a little Cantonese and am looking to learn Mandarin. It would be great to find a Cantonese and Mandarin speaker to learn from since I get confused with tones and words between the two Chinese dialects but also open to any native Mandarin speaker.

I am happy to have casual conversations to help with your English (reading, writing, speaking) and I am interested in practicing speaking Chinese and correcting my tones. I like food, travel, music, c or k dramas, learning about cultures, meeting new people, and enjoying life in general. I work as a professional in business management and research with people around the world in case that helps.

I’m (32F) looking for a partner for once- or twice-a-week online meetings for speaking exercises via Discord or Zoom. I just started the A2 course at an online school.
PM me only if you are serious about it and you can dedicate 1- 2 hours a week.
Thanks!

Hoi!

I (27f) am moving to Belgium soon and would like to improve my French. Whether you are French or Belgian or neither I don't really mind, as long as you speak French fluently. In return I can offer Dutch (NL), I am a native speaker. If necessary I can speak English too (as you can see!!) As for French, I'm not sure what level I'm at - I did French in high school, but the teacher mostly retold the same anecdotes every other class (in Dutch, sadly) or we watched Taxi, so I didn't learn too much there. Right now when I'm reading a French text I can understand it okay (although it takes effort), and I've been listening to the InnerFrench podcast which I can follow quite well. However, I'm struggling to understand native speakers, and am not nearly confident enough yet to have a full conversation. I'm looking for someone to text or call (although initially I don't think I'll be able to speak a lot of French). Open to talk about most things really, send me a message and we can have a chat about things (-:

24M living on the east coast of the US. I have the goal of becoming fluent in Spanish. Currently am around a A2-B1, and want to continue practicing using crosstalk.

I’m looking for a consistent partner to practice with a couple times a week so we both can improve!

Tengo 24 años y vivo en la costa este de los Estados Unidos. Tengo el objetivo de hablar español con fluidez. Actualmente estoy alrededor de un A2-B1 y quiero seguir practicando usando “crosstalk”.

¡Estoy buscando un compañero constante con el que practicar un par de veces a la semana para que ambos podamos mejorar!

Edit: still looking for Spanish speakers who want to do crosstalk! Serious people only!

Hi, I am an Iraqi girl and I am starting to learn a new language which is Spain and I want any nice person to practice my language with 👉🏻👈🏻♥️

Hi! I'm 19F from Japan and looking for an English practice partner to improve my speaking. My entire English level is around B1 or B2, but I assume speaking is lower than it. At first I wanna start from texting, and then move to voice call or video call. Just sharing moments or funny things or complaints in daily life through videos also sounds fun. It's fine even if you are not native speaker. But I want my partner to be:

-Female (No male sorry)

-Good at leading the conversation

-Giggly or good at making people laugh

-Generous for moody person

I don't want my partner to be:

-Having too strong accents in English

-Narcissistic

-Too much girlish

I want to enjoy the conversation so I want to meet someone I can get a long with well. I write about myself here, and if you think you can get along with me, pls text to me!

I like reading and watching movies and dramas. I love cool mannish women. Recently I watched Fleabag on Amazon and found the character really cool. I also love Japanese comedy, and people who laugh a lot. I'm not very talkative. I'm not good at doing things along fixed time. I often reply so late and change my mind very often. I can be moody sometimes. I might ghost you. I don't play video games. I don't watch anime or read manga. I don't wear makeup and don't know about fashion. I love nature and creatures. I especially love the sea!

When u text to me pls write about yourself. Don't leave just only Hi or Hello pls. I want to know at least where u are from and how old you are. But maybe I don't reply to all of you(sorry) so you can just let me know about you only as much as you want. If you have a favorite funny video could u send me it with the text so that I can see if we have the same sense of humor!

I clearly know I look very difficult person, but I just want to find someone who I can be good friend with... Thank u for reading and feel free to text me!

доброе утро!

Only for serious people!

I need to raise my Russian urgently from A1 to B1. My focus currently is on падежи and building vocabulary

If you are into IT this would be a plus, since I'm aiming to work in this field in Russia

In return I can help you with English practice, and Arabic [Fus'ha/Levantine]

Hi everyone!

I'm a native Arabic speaker from Palestine 🇵🇸, and I'm looking for a language exchange partner who is a native English speaker.

My English level is around B1–B2, and I'd like to improve my speaking, pronunciation, and overall fluency through regular conversations. In return, I'd be happy to help you learn or practice Arabic, whether you're a beginner or already have some experience.

I'm patient, friendly, and interested in having genuine conversations about daily life, culture, studies, or anything else.

If you're interested, feel free to send me a message. Looking forward to meeting you!

"Hey everyone! 👋

I'm an Arabic native speaker from Egypt, looking for a language exchange partner to help me improve my English.

I can teach both Egyptian dialect (spoken Arabic) and Modern Standard Arabic (formal/written) — whatever works best for you!

I'm a good listener and I love learning 😊

I hope we can also become friends along the way!

Girls only please!

I prefer to chat on Telegram 💙

Feel free to DM me!"

"My English level: A2/Beginner"

Hi guys, my name is Ray and I'm an 11th grader. I'm currently studying hard for exams, but I really want to make some good friends to chat with regularly.

​My interests include sports, playing the piano, dramas, K-pop, reading books, and watching anime. If you share any of these hobbies or just want to have a nice conversation, please reply or message me directly.

Hi! 24f I'm looking for Spanish or Mandarin speakers who'd like to do a language exchange. I'm happy to help with English in return! My Spanish is around a basic/intermediate level, I can understand simple words and the general meaning of some sentences, but I struggle with speaking and forming natural sentences. My Mandarin is very beginner level, so I'll definitely need someone patient 😅. I'd prefer to chat on Discord since it's more convenient. Feel free to reach out if you're interested!

Hey, I am looking for a language partner to do a language exchange via Zoom with.

Highly flexible when it comes to the format. I can provide an insight to your level, which problems you need to overcome next, or just listen/have a conversation with you.

About me: I am a German teacher for c-level professionals. I have a C1-level in English, a A2/B1-level in Spanish, and able to do the most basic conversations in Japanese (writing systems ひらがな、カタカナ). I have a few language partners, but would like to get more practice time.

Goals:
– English: Would like to raise my future children bilingual.
– Spanish: solid B1, B2 afterwards
– Japanese: being able to get by, daily communication

Leave me a message if that sounds interesting.

P.S.: Don’t mind the mistakes, too tired to do spell-check.

Long story short I've been learning German for past 3-4 months on my own and I've run dry. I'm a solid B1 level now and I'm planning to take the Goethe exam in 14 days. But I've lost my way, in a sense, everytime I sit at the table I stare at it not knowing what to do.

First two months was a bliss. I've had a lot to learn so I could sit at my desk and say "today I'll learn this structure". And practice with it until I figured it out and moved on. Then I finished my grammar book. Started practicing my speaking skills with a language partner etc. All good so far.

I've got ADHD and over the years I've learned how to move with it. I didn't rely on motivation anymore but consistent action. And it worked. Until it didn't.

It worked because everytime I sat on my desk regardless of my motivation I had a starting point. Open the grammar book, do the exercises, read sth. listen to sth. enjoy have fun while at it. write down and repeat new vocabulary, rinse and repeat.

And It run dry because I don't feel like I'm learning new something anymore. Only thing I can do is more exposure. So I read Substacks, watch german content on youtube etc. But it feels way slower and I know I'm not building language retrieval but language recognition skills. (Why ppl end up "in I can understand but I can't speak stage"). So I put my degree to use and tried to come up with a plan. Tried changing my methods and structure. Switched my goal to writing more and more.

And that's where I hit a wall. Because passive learning is fun and all, it's great if you have time in your hands. Which I do not allow myself due to my long term goals.

But active learning is more challenging. Because it requires somewhat of a motivation if you do not want to feel tortured.

My inital try was asking claude for essay prompts. However, I couldn't convince my brain that it was interesting, to write "if phones should be allowed in classrooms", to write about "whether rules in society makes a positive impact", "inviting an imaginary friend to an imaginary event." It felt like BS and meaningless everytime. So it took me no time to give that up.

So I'm looking for advice to how to overcome this plateau, I miss my old pace back where I could see my improvement day to day. But now I'm stuck at this wall. Where doing grammar exercises feel hollow, and where exposure feels like time inefficient, and where writing feels like a punishment.

And yeah I might write about my own personal interests. But doing that doesn't feel rewarding if I'm doing it to the void of space and don't have a correspondance where I can build and dive deep on it's certain points (with a human).

So do you guys have any advice with it? Or would you want to pair up so we can send back and forth what we have written and make a connection over a shared goal in the meantime?

Hey everyone! 👋
I’m currently learning English and I would love to make a new friend to practice with! I'm looking for a native or fluent English speaker who is down to chat.
In return, I can totally help you with your Spanish! We can support each other, correct our mistakes.
If you want to make a new friend and improve your language skills at the same time, drop a comment or send me a DM! I'd love to meet you.
Have a lovely day! 😊✨

Hey guys I am searching german learning friend B1 B2 level