Learn Japanese in Chicago
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Japanese
Chicago
Meimei
Chicago
NEWSPEAKS
Cantonese
Chinese (Simplified)
English
LEARNS
Korean
My favorite topics
Literature, Art and culture, movies, relationship, gender study,...
My language exchange partner is
Consistence, respective for different sexual orientations, some interest in common.
My learning goals
Be able to speak some everyday Korean language
Ava
Chicago
1SPEAKS
French
English
Haitian Creole
LEARNS
Korean
Japanese
German
Ideal language community partner
Je ne sais pas vraiment car je suis vraiment ouverte à tous....
My learning goals
C’est juste une passion que j’ai maintenant et qui me pousse à apprendre les mots et phrases dans une autre langue que la mienne à laquelle j’ai un fort intérêt.
My favorite topics
Les sujets dont j’aime beaucoup parler sont l’art, la danse classique (ou aussi les danses classiques), les langues en général, les cultures des peuples, la géographie, etc. Je suis prête et ouverte à parler de beaucoup de choses différentes.
Find more than
735
Japanese speakers in Chicago
Anjelica
Chicago
SPEAKS
English
Tagalog, Filipino
Spanish
LEARNS
Korean
Italian
Japanese
I want a conversation partner who is
My perfect tandem buddy would be someone I'd learn alot from...
My learning goals
I would like to learn a new language and make a friend
My favorite topics
I enjoy talking about architecture, video games, travel/cultures, anime, and honestly anything!
Zhang
Chicago
SPEAKS
Chinese (Simplified)
Emoji
Chinese (Traditional)
LEARNS
English
Russian
Japanese
My learning goals
Meet some people who can have voice call with me in chinese or...
My favorite topics
Student,major in law.Just a big boy.Talk to me casually ~ Basketball,big fan to nba,sports,movie and music!A crazy man about shoes...I got more than 30 basketball shoes in my room...lately I am watching tgt,I like cars,too. I'm in Chongqing.你好nihao!
My language exchange partner is
Someone lives in Chicago. Because I may go to chicago for master of law this year.
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Brandon
Chicago
NEWSPEAKS
English
French
German
LEARNS
Afrikaans
Arabic
Hindi
My favorite topics
Exploring the World and Learning Languages! ✈️, Political Science...
Ideal language community partner
Someone who loves the world, loves exploring, and someone who is open to all kinds of new people and experiences
My learning goals
Hope to learn more of the other languages I'm learning, and would love to help others with their English and French!
Change
Chicago
SPEAKS
English
Chinese (Traditional)
Cantonese
LEARNS
Japanese
Chinese (Simplified)
American Sign Language
Ideal conversation exchange partner
Friendly, good looking, down to earth and adventurous...
My learning goals
To be able to communicate and understand with others
My favorite topics
Learning process
Connect with learners around the world
Join a global community
Learn what matters to you
Have fun, engaging conversations
Jun uses Tandem to improve his English speaking and listening skills.
"One of the reasons I’ve struggled to stay engaged in practicing languages is a lack of being able to talk to native speakers, so this app is a lifesaver."
suji
Chicago
NEWSPEAKS
English
Spanish
LEARNS
German
Korean
Japanese
My favorite topics
Makeup, fashion, cartoon, anime, music, games, Pokémon, drawin...
Ideal conversation exchange partner
Someone who is interested in teaching me things about their culture! If people do cultural dances, that’d be great too!
My learning goals
Learn more colloquial language and make friends! I also want to learn about different points of view.
Diego
Chicago
5SPEAKS
English
Spanish
LEARNS
Korean
French
German
My learning goals
I really just want to learn about people's experiences in or...
My favorite topics
Storytelling, video games, culture, traveling
I want a conversation partner who is
Somebody willing to share their personal stories or talk about social issues with lots of sass! (Well maybe... up to you.)
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Cindy
Chicago
SPEAKS
English
Cantonese
Chinese (Traditional)
LEARNS
Japanese
My favorite topics
Anything related to Japan excites me! I am trying to expand my...
My language exchange partner is
Friendly, open to talk about anything, patient with my Japanese
My learning goals
I want to pass the N1 test and can have meaningful conversation in Japanese. ペラペラになりたい！
James
Chicago
SPEAKS
English
LEARNS
Spanish
Japanese
Polish
Ideal language community partner
Creo que estará bien chido para hacer amigos con alguien de un...
My learning goals
Quiero mejorar mi vocabulario en español y también tener más confianza cuando hablando. Te puedo ayudar con el inglés.
My favorite topics
Me gusta hablar sobre todo y conocer personas nuevas. Cosas que me encanta son salir con mis amigos, probar comidas nuevas, viajar, y montar bicicleta.
Jing
Chicago
SPEAKS
English
Cantonese
LEARNS
Chinese (Simplified)
Japanese
Korean
My learning goals
Practice speaking and writing korean, Japanese and Chinese. 중국계...
My favorite topics
Hiking, traveling, Comedy/medical/detective/supernatural TV shows, korean variety shows, historical Chinese novels and drama, GOT7, detective Conan, one piece! 我最近很喜欢看中国的古代玄幻片和小说，所以很后悔小的时候没有学好中文因为我读中文小说需要英文翻译...
Ideal conversation exchange partner
An adventurous and open minded person.
Kyungmi
Chicago
SPEAKS
English
Spanish
LEARNS
Korean
Japanese
Chinese (Simplified)
I want a conversation partner who is
Anyone I can get along with hehe. Um specifically koreans, Japanese,...
My learning goals
I have a huge list of goals to achieve so I'll just put etc. It will take way to long hehe. But I want to learn at least 10 languages. I already know 2
My favorite topics
K pop, music, I like to draw,sing,play piano and guitar. I'm learning korean I love to make korean friends because it helps with my learning and I love their culture . Basically I love making new friends from anywhere. I'm also bilingual spanish and Engli
Lynn
Chicago
SPEAKS
English
Finnish
Luxembourgish
LEARNS
French
Korean
Norwegian
My learning goals
To be with the right channel...
My favorite topics
Like talking about adventure and movies and vacation conversation how it was interesting
My language exchange partner is
Hummmmm I believe such is life and life is very short., as long as he got good heart and caring God fearing person
Miguel
Chicago
1SPEAKS
Spanish
Emoji
English
LEARNS
French
German
Polish
My favorite topics
I enjoy writing poems and short stories. Other hobbies: music,...
Ideal language community partner
Passionate people who'd love to have a stimulating chat. Especially anyone with interest in learning more about spanish :)
My learning goals
Improve my language skills, while helping others.
Sodbilguun
Chicago
3SPEAKS
Mongolian
English
LEARNS
Spanish
Japanese
French
Ideal conversation exchange partner
someone who has good ethics regardless their religion...
My learning goals
Every country has their cultural tradion in their language.So! I might be able to discover new nations without traveling.God is dead but I’m young enough to experience new things
My favorite topics
Art, philosophy, movies,chess, video games, music, anime, tourism and business
lis
Chicago
SPEAKS
English
Spanish
LEARNS
Chinese (Simplified)
Korean
Japanese
My learning goals
to learn the language well and speak and write properly in those...
My favorite topics
I like to play video games and I like to edit ☺️
Perfect language exchange partner
I want to feel comfortable with my tandem partner, I want them to feel comfortable around me ^.^ I want to be friends but also help me learn about the culture we are currently trying to help me become fluent in (sorry if I didn’t make sense.)
Benjamin
Chicago
2SPEAKS
English
LEARNS
Japanese
Korean
Vietnamese
My favorite topics
Film 映画, animationアニメーション, drawingドローイング, photography撮影, music音楽,...
I want a conversation partner who is
Replies regularly, similar interests, helpful. We can share our favorite things, our daily life, our troubles, and talk about meaningful things.
My learning goals
Build strong relationships and practice languages. I'm looking forward to your messages. よろしくお願いします！(๑˃̵ᴗ˂̵)
Pierce
Chicago
SPEAKS
English
Japanese
LEARNS
Swahili
My learning goals
I want to be able to fluently speak so I can teach other African...
My favorite topics
I love talking about relationships and tv shows or movies. I’m also very interested in learning about Africa
Ideal language community partner
My perfect partner doesn’t exist because I don’t ride bikes
Alex
Chicago
SPEAKS
English
Spanish
LEARNS
French
Korean
American Sign Language
My favorite topics
Life, cultures, learning new languages, music, arts, entertainment,...
Ideal conversation exchange partner
I want to be friends with people of different cultures! Someone friendly and very open minded I’m kinda weird ~
My learning goals
I would love to be able to talk casually in languages other than my native ones and be able to express myself easily about day to day things. I wish to travel around the world and make friends in different countries. ㅇㅅㅇ
Tolgahan
Chicago
1SPEAKS
Turkish
English
LEARNS
Spanish
French
Portuguese
My learning goals
Very very good speak English Learn different cultures Speak and...
My favorite topics
Education(Languages, Sociology, Philosophy, Psychology etc.) Technology(VR, Electric Vehicles, Drones etc.) Fitness World News Different Cultures
I want a conversation partner who is
Curious about language learning Buddy who introduce own culture Buddy talking about technology Curious about social sciences Buddy who doesn't use bad words
Looking for an online language exchange partner in Chicago, United States?
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In Chicago there are 735 members ready to have a Japanese language exchange.
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Tandem is a language exchange app where people teach each other their native language. Each month more than 500,000 people visit Tandem with 735 of them coming from Chicago.