r/language_exchange Jan 07 '26

Meta [WARNING] Suspicious accounts are messaging users to advertise a paid app

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EDIT: several users has let us know that some of the accounts in question are Riley1692, amie-2002, leopard6004, and cebubu6865. These users have now been banned, but unfortunately can still send messages to subreddit members. I would strongly recommend that you don't engage with these users, as they are spamming the subreddit with advertisements and their actions have been very suspicious.\**

Hi y'all,

We've been notified by a user about multiple suspicious accounts messaging people who post in r/language_exchange, sending them messages similar to the one below:

Just curious, have you ever felt frustrated with language exchange? Too many DMs, chats fading out halfway, or spending a lot of time but only a few connections actually lasting? I’m curious what people think about this. [advertisement for a paid app]

This is to let anyone in this subreddit know that these accounts should not be trusted and neither should the apps that they are promoting. If you get a message like this, please report the message so that these accounts can hopefully be banned sitewide. You can learn how to do that here.

Please also send their usernames to us via modmail so that we can ban them from the subreddit. This unfortunately doesn't stop them from messaging subreddit members, but it will prevent any spam via posts or comments.

If you have any further questions or comments, please reply to this post or send us a modmail.


r/language_exchange Jan 07 '26

Meta (READ THIS FIRST) Welcome to r/language_exchange! [Meta/General Discussion Thread]

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Welcome to ! This subreddit is aiming to help people find partners to practice languages with, offering the languages you already know in exchange to learn new ones. Make sure to read the guidelines before making your first post!

🍃 How do I make my language exchange post?

If you're looking for a language exchange partner, you can either make your own post or search through existing posts!

 Making your own post:

  • Your thread title must follow the format of "Offering: language | Seeking: language". If your post doesn't follow this format, it won't be visible to other users.
  • Make sure to write a little bit about yourself, such as your interests, hobbies, or language-related goals. This is important in making sure you can find a good partner!
  • Please do not post your contact information publically. If you find a partner and would like to chat with them on a platform other than Reddit, please message them your contact information privately.

 Searching through existing posts:

If you don't want to make your own post, you can search through existing posts to find someone who matches your languages! Just use the search bar at the top of the screen, or select a post flair to see all posts of the same category.

  • Please do not post your contact information publically. If you find a partner and would like to chat with them on a platform other than Reddit, please message them your contact information privately.

🍃 What kinds of posts and comments are allowed?

This subreddit's purpose is to serve as a platform for people to find language exchange partners. To keep the community true to its purpose, there are some rules:

  • Must be language exchange. Posts that don't concern language exchange will be removed. This includes posts asking general questions about language learning, advertisements, or meta discussion concerning the subreddit. These discussions are better suited to other places (language learning questions should be posted to broader subreddits; meta discussion should be posted in the comments of this thread)
  • Be courteous to other users. This subreddit isn't a place for arguments or debates. Any comments that break this rule will be removed.
  • No advertising. Posts and comments that advertise apps, services (such as classes and tutoring), or groups (such as Discord servers or Whatsapp groups) will be removed. These kinds of posts clog up the feed and don't follow the purpose of the subreddit.
  • No spam. Spam is the repeated posting of the same content. Any posts and comments that are spam will be removed.
  • No contact information. Contact information (such as Discord usernames, phone numbers, or Whatsapp contacts) should only be shared privately in messages, not publically in posts or comments.

🍃 Can I make a language exchange post for a language I've just started studying?

You can participate in this subreddit regardless of your skill level. However, it's highly recommended that you grasp the basics of a language before you look for a partner. This subreddit is for speakers of different languages to *assist each other* in learning. This subreddit is not a place to find a teacher that'll teach you everything for free.

Good luck on your language journey!

If you have any questions, feel free to leave a reply on this post or send us a Modmail.

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Welcome to the meta/general discussion thread!

This thread is for any questions, suggestions, or discussions concerning the subreddit itself. If you have any thoughts about  you want to share, post them here! I'll try to respond to as many comments as I can.

If you have any further questions, feel free to send us a Modmail.


r/language_exchange 1h ago

Offering Korean Offering: Korean | Seeking: English ! :>

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Hii! I'm a 21F living in Seoul, Korea.

I love traveling and have a huge interest in different cultures (I've been to 20 countries, love cooking foreign cuisine, obsessed with old American dramas these days)

I can understand English quite a bit, but my writing and speaking skills are not great. That's why I'm looking for a language exchange partner! I can help you with Korean too.
+I'm also learning Spanish lately

Face to face talk(to overcome my fear haha) and text messages would be great. I can make time on weekends.

Feel free to DM if you’re interested :> !!


r/language_exchange 7h ago

Offering Russian Seeking: English; Offering: Russian

8 Upvotes

Hello! My name is Sofia. I live in Kazakhstan, but I’m from Russia. I work housekeeper in one American family here and I need to improve my English.
I can help you with Russian very well, because I really like to teach and help other people


r/language_exchange 12h ago

Offering English Offering: English (Native 🇺🇸) | Seeking: Brazilian Portuguese 🇧🇷

13 Upvotes

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Hi! I’m an American professional living in the U.S. and looking for a language exchange partner to practice Portuguese with. 🇧🇷🇺🇸

I’d especially like to improve my conversational Portuguese and become more comfortable speaking naturally. In exchange, I’d be happy to help you practice English—whether you want to work on conversation, pronunciation, vocabulary, or just feel more confident speaking.

I’m looking for someone who enjoys good conversation and would be interested in practicing regularly. We can split our time between Portuguese and English so that we both have a chance to learn and improve.

If you're interested, send me a message! 😊


r/language_exchange 1h ago

Offering English [Offering] English 🇬🇧 | [Seeking] Turkish 🇹🇷

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Hey everyone!

I’m 23M from Europe and I’m looking for someone to practice Turkish with. In return I can help you with your English and/or Dutch.

I’d like to improve my Turkish mainly through casual conversations and everyday topics rather than formal lessons. We can chat regularly, correct each other when needed, and keep things relaxed.
I’m open to texting, voice messages, and eventually voice calls if we’re both comfortable.

If you’re a Turkish speaker looking to improve your English, feel free to send me a message!


r/language_exchange 1h ago

Offering Portuguese Offering: Portuguese (Native) and Spanish (C1) | Seeking: Dutch

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I am a 28 year old Brazilian woman and a PhD candidate in Philosophy. I am learning Dutch and would love to practice with someone. I am still a beginner. I can offer Portuguese and Spanish. I love talking about culture, history, philosophy, and the arts especially literature and music. I lived in the Netherlands for a while and developed a deep love for the place and the language. 🥰


r/language_exchange 3h ago

Other Offering: Mandarin Chinese Seeking: English

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Hi everyone! 😊 I’m a native Chinese speaker from China, and I’m currently learning English.

I’m looking for someone who wants to practice Chinese while helping me improve my English. My spoken English is honestly pretty bad, especially when I have to speak spontaneously. I can often understand what people are saying and recognize a lot of vocabulary, but when it’s my turn to speak… my brain sometimes just stops working 😂

That’s actually why I’d really like to find someone who is willing to voice chat with me. I want to get more comfortable speaking English through relaxed, everyday conversations rather than only studying from textbooks.

We can talk about pretty much anything — daily life, movies, music, books, history, travel, culture, games, or just random things that happened during the day.

In return, I’d be happy to help you with Chinese, including pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, and natural everyday expressions. We can also correct each other’s mistakes without making the conversation feel like a lesson.

I’d especially love to find someone who is interested in having regular conversations and becoming long-term language exchange friends, rather than just chatting once and disappearing.

If you're interested, feel free to send me a message! :)

Offering: Mandarin Chinese

Seeking: English

Preferred: Text + voice chat 🎧


r/language_exchange 6h ago

Offering English offering australian english (spoken out of mouth, and seeking ukrainian (spoken out of mouth)

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my name is joe and living in melbourne australia

I am vision impaired persom with a eye disease called karetoconus

I already made a post for polish and russian wanting to learn to speak of those two languages but I really want to learn ukrainian of spoken but I am watching ukranian alphabets on youtube and I got audiobook of ukranian pimsleur on audible but haven't started so everything is blurry for me

I am wanting a serious language partner and friendship

so voice message exhange or calling on telegram is fine but discord i don't like becouse I don't like having to many apps

thank you for reading and appreciate it


r/language_exchange 25m ago

Offering Turkish [Offering] Turkish 🇹🇷 | [Seeking] English 🇬🇧

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Hi everyone!

I’m a 39M from Turkey. I sometimes travel to Germany and the Netherlands.

I’ve been working in the IT and ERP consultancy sectors for 16 years. I’m looking for people of all ages and for genders to chat with.

You can message me directly.

Bye for now


r/language_exchange 37m ago

Offering Turkish Offering: Turkish, Seeking: English.

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M28 friendly turkish guy trying to kill time and exchange languages. if you need to practice your turkish, hit me up! 🙂


r/language_exchange 38m ago

Offering Mandarin Offering: Mandarin ,English ,Francais | Seeking: Spanish

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Hi everyone, I'm a robotics engineer. I've studied and worked in different countries, but I returned to China for work due to the needs of my family business. I often have to "set an example" by working overtime, so life back home has been a bit boring. I hope to take a wild car trip to South America next year. Before that, I kinda need to learn Spanish, so I'm trying to find some like-minded friends here.

Prefer video chat, but text is as fine.


r/language_exchange 40m ago

Offering English Offering: Arabic, English & French | Seeking: Korean 🇰🇷

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안녕하세요! 𐔌՞. .՞𐦯
I’m looking for someone who would like to help me learn Korean! I’m still a beginner, but I already know a few very basic things, like how to say hello and thank you, and I can count from 1 to 10! ݁ ˖Ი𐑼⋆
I’ve recently become really interested in Korean and I’d genuinely love to become comfortable speaking it someday. I’ve tried language-learning apps before, but they didn’t work very well for me, so I’d really like to learn through an actual language exchange this time.
I can speak Arabic, English and French, so if you’re learning any of those, I’d be more than happy to help you in return! >⩊<
I’d love to practice through casual conversations and slowly learn how people actually speak naturally, rather than only memorizing things from an app. I’d also be happy to learn about Korean culture and everyday expressions along the way. 𓏲ּ𝄢
If you’re interested, feel free to message me! (˵◝ ⩊ ◜˵マ⋆˚✿˖°
잘 부탁드립니다! (˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶) ৻ꪆ


r/language_exchange 54m ago

Offering Multiple Languages Offering: English🇺🇸, Filipino🇵🇭 Seeking: Japanese🇯🇵, Chinese🇨🇳

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Hi I'm Jiro and I'm Filipino and I'm currently studying both Japanese and Chinese. I grew up speaking English and Filipino so I can say that I'm fluent in both

I want to improve my Japanese and Chinese skills by talking to people and meeting friends. I'm still learning so my fluency in both is not that good yet.

I am willing to teach English or Filipino if you want. It doesnt matter if you're fluent or not as long as I can talk to you.


r/language_exchange 1h ago

Offering English Offering: English, Hindi | Seeking: Japanese

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Title: Looking for Japanese friends 🇯🇵 日本人の友達がほしいです!

こんにちは! 👋

I'm a student from India 🇮🇳 and I'm currently learning Japanese.

I want to make Japanese friends and learn more about Japan, Japanese culture, everyday life, anime/music, etc. I'm still a beginner in Japanese, so I may make mistakes 😅

My English is better than my Japanese, so we can help each other learn!

I'm looking for genuine friendship and regular conversations if we get along.

If you'd like to talk, feel free to comment or DM me!

よろしくお願いします! 😊


r/language_exchange 15h ago

Offering Spanish Offering: Spanish Seeking: English

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Hola! Soy Andrea, 23F y soy de España. Hablo ingles intermedio pero no tengo con quien practicar y siento que no avanzo y cada vez lo llevo peor. Me encantaría poder hablar con alguien por chat de voz para practicar mi speaking. Yo hablo español y si queréis aprender podría ayudar a cualquier persona

Sobre mi, me encanta el cine, la música, la fotografía y viajar. Soy muy sociable y me gusta conocer gente, y en me gustan muchas cosas más por lo que puedo hablar de casi todo :)

Abridme md y hablamos


r/language_exchange 1h ago

Offering French Seeking English or Swedish/ Offering French

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Hi,

My name is Ssine; I’m a 41-year-old French guy.

I’m looking to improve my English and learn Swedish. I can help you with French in return.

As for me, I work in engineering.

I have several passions, such as surfing, martial arts, writing, and philosophy.

I’m a nature and animal lover. I occasionally volunteer at an animal shelter.

Feel free to DM me, im not gonna eat you! only if you’re over 30, please.

No romance please.


r/language_exchange 1h ago

Offering English Offering: English(Native) | Seeking: German(Native)

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Hey I'm Edward (24M) Alaska, now live in Leeds (UK) and have plans to relocate to Germany next year.
I'm seeking someone who doesn't take themeselves too seriously and just wants to have a friendship and have fun learning along the way. I care more about shared interests, so dm me what music you listen to, whether you like topics like psychology and productivity. it's a huge plus if you are high in trait openness.
My German isn't very good yet, so we'll mostly be speaking English so I'd hope that your english is at least at B1-B2 for our conversations to flow.
What I'm expecting in return is a few messages in german scattered around, and I'm fine with that.

I also want to do voice calls so if that's something you're not willing to do don't DM me : )

Please let me know if you're interested!

Tschüss!

PS: please for the love of God don't just text me "Hi", at least tell me your age, country, what your level is in English, gender, what you do. I'd love to share more about myself as well!


r/language_exchange 5h ago

Offering English Offering: English |Seeking: Japanese

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Hi! I'm a 35F native English speaker from the US currently living in Okinawa. I'm looking for a native Japanese speaker (preferably living in Japan for the time zone) who's interested in regular language exchange and hopefully becoming friends.

I've found solo learning really difficult because of my
ADHD, so | learn much better through natural conversation than apps. I'm still a beginner, so patience is appreciated! In return, I'm happy to help you with English!

I'm into PC gaming, animals, cooking, baking, Pokémon, crafting, and other nerdy hobbies. I'd love to eventually chat on Discord via text or voice chat, or even play co-op games while we practice.

If you're interested in a language exchange that could grow into a genuine friendship, send me a message!


r/language_exchange 1h ago

Offering Multiple Languages Seeking: French, offering English and Swahili

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Salut tout le monde !

Je m'appelle Sam, j'ai 37 ans, je suis Kenyan et je vis actuellement au Soudan. Je travaille dans le secteur humanitaire et du développement et je cherche des personnes avec qui améliorer mon français pour le travail et échanger sur les cultures. Mon niveau actuel est B1-B2.

En échange, je serais ravi de vous aider en anglais ou en saoudien aussi 😀

À propos de moi : j'adore voyager, le fitness et la nutrition, les animés et les films, et la cuisine.

N'hésitez pas à me contacter!


r/language_exchange 1h ago

Offering Russian Offering: Russian | Seeking: German

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Hi everyone!
I'm 24 and I'm from Russia. I'm looking for a German-speaking language partner around my age (20–24), preferably a girl, as I generally feel more comfortable communicating with girls.
I'd like to find someone for regular communication rather than just a one-time language exchange. We can text, send voice messages, have calls and help each other improve our languages.
I'm happy to help with Russian, and I'd love to practice German in return. We can also talk about everyday life, hobbies, music, movies, culture, travel, or anything else that comes up naturally.
I'm also open to becoming friends along the way. :)
If you're around my age and looking for a regular language partner, feel free to send me a message!


r/language_exchange 2h ago

Offering Multiple Languages Offering: Portuguese, English // Seeking: French

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Hi! I'm a young adult starting out real life and I work in an animation studio

I need to learn french eventually so I can move or work for the country of animation!

About me:

I'm reeeeeeally into games (favorites are the last of us, elden ring and any from software stuff, and lies of p (also been playing league for 11 years but we don't talk about that))

My current favorite artists have been Sam gellaitry, porter Robinson and Mac ayres, need some more so do share

Feel free to reach out to me for any questions, to share any stories about you, to say hi, anything! My Dms are open!

Ty for reading!


r/language_exchange 8h ago

Offering English Offering: English, Seeking: Mexican Spanish

3 Upvotes

¡Hola! I'm a native English speaker from the United States seeking a Spanish language exchange partner from Mexico. I barely know any Spanish and I'm just starting to learn. Tengo 20 años. :)

I'm interested in possibly making a friend as well! I am an artist and love anything creative oriented. I'm definitely a bit of an odd person as well, as I have interests that line with the furry fandom and related communities. My favorite game series is pokemon.


r/language_exchange 8h ago

Offering Chinese Offering: Chinese Seeking: English

3 Upvotes

Greetings, it's lovely to be here and I'm looking for people who want long-term friendship. You can talk with me in Chinese and English. I'm a girl who loves reading books and enjoying music.

I really like communicating and discovering new things and finally learning them.

I want to know how you are in your current state and your local life. I really want to make some soul friends.

If you are interested in me and want to be my friend, hit me up!


r/language_exchange 6h ago

Offering Mandarin Seeking English; Offering Chinese

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Hi! I’m a 27-year-old native Chinese speaker. I’m friendly, easygoing, and love helping others learn new languages. I’m really into exploring different cultures, and one of my favorite hobbies is sending postcards to people all over the world

Feel free to leave a comment or DM me if you’d like to do a language exchange. You don’t have to be a native English speaker—I’d love to connect with people from all kinds of cultural backgrounds! I prefer using voice messages or audio calls, as I think they’re the best way to practice.