What would a language learning platform be without user profiles?

You already read a little bit about how the SpeaQ With Me platform is developing. In this blog post we are going to show you the next part of our language learning platform.

But let’s start slowly. On www.speaqwith.me we are currently building a social network that is designed to help people practice languages. That’s why our slogan is “social language learning for everyone”. The idea is that everyone can register on the platform to find international chat partners to practice foreign languages with.

To do so, every user needs a profile first, and that’s what we are going to show you today.

Like in every social network, the registration process contains some questions about the new user. Name, nationality and a profile picture are standard. On SpeaQ With Me the user also enters which languages he/she speaks and at what level. There will also be a section where you can describe yourself and choose from a selection of interests.
This will play a big role in finding interesting partners for the language exchange. Our users can decide how much they want to fill in, but the more personalized a profile is, the easier it is to find good conversation partners. A completed profile can look something like this screenshot. As you can see, you can start to practice languages right in the profile with the text chat tool on the right. From there you can also start a video chat via a button at the top.

To find matching language exchange partners, you browse through the “People” section of SpeaQ With Me. Here our system uses the information from the profiles (interests, languages, etc.) to find the best partner for you. Besides the suggested users you can also use a customizable search.

To get a quick overview of your possible language learning partners, we developed smaller profile cards that contain the most important information about the user. As you can see in the example, it shows their picture, name, nationality, the community rating, native languages and the languages they like to practice. Of course it also shows if a user is online and therefore available for a chat. When someone seems to be a nice fit, you just need to click on the card to learn a little bit more about them and start the chat right away. If a user is currently offline, you can just leave them a text message and they will answer later. 

We hope you liked this peek into what we are doing at the moment and we will SpeaQ with you soon.

P.S. We are going to “Bits and Pretzels” this weekend. It’s a fair for startups in Munich, where we will show the SpeaQ With Me platform to get some feedback. Cross your fingers, that everything will work out as planned!

You can read about the fair in the next blog post, so stay tuned!