English for Friendship
Whatever you want to call it, there are lots of ways of contacting other people who wish to learn or improve their English or simply want to share their love of English.
You can connect with people and make new friends here:-
- The easiest way is to join the forum, but if forums aren't your "thing" then join English for Friendship using Google Friends Connect.
- You can sign in with your Google, Yahoo, AIM or OpenID account.
- You can interact with other visitors by making friends and leaving an introduction.
- You can invite friends from other social networks - remember the more people who are members, the livelier it will be.
- Contact other members by clicking on their name or image and requesting friendship - this allows you to contact each other privately.
- Don't forget to fill out your profile, this lets people know a bit about you. You could say how long you've been learning English, what your native language is, and what your hobbies are.
- I recommend you get an avatar too. If you notice many members have an image next to their name - this is called an avatar and it helps to identify you, it can look like you, or be your alter ego. You can use a photo or you can create an avatar like mine, which is more of a cartoon. I used Face your Manga, Yahoo also have a free avatar generator too, it will even give you a pet. Be warned though, you can lose hours doing this.
!Note - This is all under Beta, so sometimes it's a bit squirrely (hence the disappearance of previous comments - and it may not work in your browser, sorry about that). I hope to extend it to other pages on the site as time goes on.
There are other services that can help you to make
new friends or practise your English for free.
The Learn English Forum - Check out the friendly, fun forum hosted by yours truly. But remember, "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all".
E-Pals - An online community of collaborative classrooms.
BBC's
Message Boards - An easy to use service from my old
favourite the BBC here you can share your experiences learning English
with people from all over the world. . To add or reply to a message,
you must register first.
My Language Exchange - find people who want to learn your language in exchange for them helping you with theirs. Unfortunately some parts of this service are no longer free.
!For
safety's sake I recommend that only adults should use any of these services.!
!Do not give
out personal information - address, university, work place, telephone number etc.!
!Use a special
e-mail address that you don't mind deleting (Hotmail Yahoo Google etc...)!
!If you do arrange
to meet anyone (which I do not recommend) make sure it is in a public place, make sure someone goes with you or at least knows where
you are and who you are meeting etc.!
!If
you have one take your mobile phone with you!
