How to SpeaQ With Me – Find a conversation partner

In the last blog post you learned about how the text and video chat works. In this post, we want to show you how to find a chat partner, so that you can take advantage of all the learning tools we built into the chat. If you are curious and maybe a little bit hesitant about how you can get to know other people, read on to see all the possibilities you have for meeting interesting chat partners on the platform.

The main page of the SpeaQ With Me app is designed to show you everyone who can help you learn your target language(s). Ideally this would be a native speaker, but there are also plenty of (we call them) expert speakers, who have already learned a language to a point where they are fluent and can share their knowledge with you.

When you log into the platform, your starting page is always the people page. This page gives you a quick overview over your possible chat partners. Maybe you already see somebody who seems interesting? If you speak more than one foreign language, you will see a mix of users that have at least one language in common. In this case, you might want to narrow down your choices. Of course, you could read through all the profile cards, but it might be easier for you to use the search tool to find the language and nationality you are looking for.

How to SpeaQ With Me – Video Chat

Here comes our next post explaining how to use the language learning platform.

You already know about out text chat and have maybe already chatted with someone? Then it’s time to get started speaQing in a video chat. The video chat helps you put all your foreign language skills to use in the best possible way, by having conversations with real people! 

When you first start out talking to new people via video chat, we know it can be a challenge to figure out what to say, or find interesting topics to discuss. That's why we developed some tools that should make it easier to chat with a native and to reach your language learning goals.

So, what are these tools about?

Well, even before the chat begins, we want to make sure that both you and your chat partner are set up for success. That's why we have you select the language the chat will be in and approximately how long you want to talk for. This information helps you and your partner both know what's going on when the chat begins, and it lets us provide you with learning tools in the language you selected (if available, otherwise it will be in English).