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Learn English in Toronto

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catlin

catlin

Toronto

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English

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French

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German

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Dutch

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Hungarian

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Italian

My favorite topics

Art, music, politics, feminism, books, dogs, travelling, et...

My language exchange partner is

Someone who can make me laugh with ridiculous puns. Always on the lookout for book recommendations!

My learning goals

Practice speaking more confidently, improve vocab

Val

Val

Toronto

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English

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French

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German

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Spanish

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Swedish

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Russian

Ideal language community partner

Anyone who is easy to converse with and is pleasan...

My learning goals

Improve my language skills to a point of fluency

My favorite topics

Anything, culture, food, travel, investments

Aloke

Aloke

Toronto

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English

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Hindi

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Telugu

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Spanish

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French

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German

My learning goals

Become a multilingual or at least make a decent conversation...

My favorite topics

I love things around Technology, business, entrepreneurship. Also I love chatting about history, geography and social issues.

Ideal conversation exchange partner

Who like to share knowledge, culture and explore the world.

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Find more than

1,681

English speakers in Toronto

Musa

Musa

Toronto

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English

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Punjabi

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Urdu

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German

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Spanish

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Arabic

My favorite topics

Travel, aviation, sports, love, life, languages, histor...

Perfect language exchange partner

Patient, jolly, understanding

My learning goals

Become fluent in the language of my choice

Nilesh

Nilesh

Toronto

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Tamil

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Telugu

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Hindi

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French

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German

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Spanish

I want a conversation partner who is

Enjoy casual conversations...

My learning goals

Try to learn day to day conversations.

My favorite topics

I enjoy conversing about movies, series, news, entertainment, and any other cool stuff.

Prakash

Prakash

Toronto

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Gujarati

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Hindi

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English

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Dothraki

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French

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Spanish

My learning goals

Learning lots of languages to know diversity of lifestyle...

My favorite topics

Lifestyle Rituals History Interests

My language exchange partner is

Willing to share knowledge

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Sheila

Sheila

Toronto

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Kinyarwanda

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English

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French

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Spanish

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Chinese (Simplified)

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Italian

My favorite topics

Arts, movies , tv shows and anything people are pasionate about...

Ideal language community partner

Anybody willing to have a friendly patient chat! Thanks :)

My learning goals

Become more fluent in Spanish, Mandarin and Italian! Want to learn some Swedish expression to communicate with family

Aparna

Aparna

Toronto

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English

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Malayalam

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Hindi

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German

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French

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Spanish

Ideal conversation exchange partner

Funny , cheery and nic...

My learning goals

Learn French , Spanish and German

My favorite topics

Music , nature , books

Brian

Brian

Toronto

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English

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Chinese (Traditional)

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Vietnamese

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Chinese (Simplified)

My learning goals

To become conversationally fluent in Mandarin. 能提高中文口頭能力...

My favorite topics

Design/設計 Travel/旅遊 Food/美食 History/歷史 LGBT/同志文化

Perfect language exchange partner

Funny, curious, and open-minded 有幽默感 好奇心 開放的

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Join a global community

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Learn what matters to you

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Have fun, engaging conversations

Carmine

Carmine

Toronto

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English

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Cantonese

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Italian

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Spanish

My favorite topics

I love to learn. I am an Integrative Health Coach working towards...

I want a conversation partner who is

People who don't take life to serious, like to learn and are willing to make mistakes and be themselves openly.

My learning goals

I want to become proficient enough to have a conversation in any situation, and to read and speak like a native

Natalie

Natalie

Toronto

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English

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Cantonese

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Japanese

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Spanish

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Chinese (Simplified)

My language exchange partner is

Respectful, kind, helpful, and open minded individuals...

My learning goals

To be fluent in multiple languages.

My favorite topics

Mindfulness, cooking, music, technology, and arts and crafts.

Daniel

Daniel

Toronto

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English

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Russian

My learning goals

I enjoy traveling and I'll love to be able to socialize with...

My favorite topics

I enjoy discussing about topics like sports, music, dentistry and family

Ideal language community partner

Well, yes. My perfect Tandem partner has to be very sociable because I'm quite the free type. And also, I'll love for my partner to be understanding and ready to teach me whatever language she's good at.

Kai

Kai uses Tandem to share their culture with other members.

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"This is my favorite app on my phone, hands down. Within minutes of downloading it, I'd found people to chat with."

Malhar

Malhar

Toronto

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English

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Gujarati

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Hindi

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French

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German

My favorite topics

I enjoy discussing school and university life. I also love talking...

Ideal conversation exchange partner

Funny and has a great personality.

My learning goals

Learn and improve languages while also helping others.

Guilherme

Guilherme

Toronto

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Portuguese

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English

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Spanish

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French

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Turkish

Perfect language exchange partner

Would be a fun, smart person that is available to tal...

My learning goals

Have fun and I want to text without thinking about translation.

My favorite topics

movies, series, music, can talk about anything :)

lucy

lucy

Toronto

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Cantonese

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English

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Chinese (Traditional)

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Japanese

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Korean

My learning goals

I hope I can communicate fluently with native speaker...

My favorite topics

I enjoy discussing photography, travel, celebrities, food etc. Actually I enjoy discussing all sorts of things!

I want a conversation partner who is

Is a nice, friendly, patient partner.

Shannon

Shannon

Toronto

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English

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French

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Portuguese

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German

My favorite topics

Excercise, Art, books, Buddhism, travel...

My language exchange partner is

A person who speaks German. Feel free to correct me.

My learning goals

I would like to become fluent in German, and French. I would also like to have a strong working knowledge of Portuguese

Poorna

Poorna

Toronto

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English

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Hindi

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Bengali

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Spanish

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French

Ideal language community partner

Someone open to talk about anything and willing to help me lear...

My learning goals

Gain more knowledge and become more global

My favorite topics

Shows, movies, politics, life

Marta

Marta

Toronto

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English

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Russian

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French

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Hebrew

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Yiddish

My learning goals

I want to get to a more comfortable conversational level of the...

My favorite topics

Travel, Food, Literature, History, and Pop culture!

Ideal conversation exchange partner

Someone open minded and easy going.

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Frank

Frank

Toronto

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Chinese (Traditional)

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English

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Japanese

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Korean

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Spanish

My favorite topics

Movies, books, music, travel, cool places to visit and restaurants...

Perfect language exchange partner

Patient, funny, and who’s passionate about their language or culture.

My learning goals

I want to be able to speak simple phrases and get by when I’m traveling to japan and or any other foreign countries as well as meet new and interesting individuals.

Jae

Jae

Toronto

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English

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Spanish

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French

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Korean

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German

I want a conversation partner who is

I would say people who wish to learn English, Spanish or just...

My learning goals

My main goal is to hold a conversation in all of the languages I've picked to learn, and be able to read and write slightly in those languages.

My favorite topics

Some of my hobbies include, longboarding, drawing, videogames, making friends and studying.

Ok

Ok

Toronto

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English

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Portuguese

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French

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Igbo

My learning goals

To reach a conversational leve...

My favorite topics

Sports, Politics, Technology and Innovation, Biology, Movies and TV shows, Culture, Food

My language exchange partner is

Outgoing, easy to talk to with patience and time to have regular conversations

MarcieeM

MarcieeM

Toronto

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Chinese (Simplified)

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Shanghainese

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English

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German

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French

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Japanese

My favorite topics

Anime, musical theatre, history, daily lif...

Ideal language community partner

Kind and friendly people

My learning goals

Improve my Japanese speaking and learn more German and French for being able to do some casual talk

Haroon

Haroon

Toronto

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English

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Portuguese

Ideal conversation exchange partner

Understanding Fluent Fun Excitin...

My learning goals

To be able to speak functional Spanish, French, and Portuguese to assist me in my travel plans. Going to Brazil, Spain, Colombia, Cuba and Paris

My favorite topics

Traveling Meeting new people New foods Exploring

Gyeongae

Gyeongae

Toronto

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Korean

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Spanish

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Icelandic

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Polish

My learning goals

언어도 배우고 세계 여러 나라 사람들과 소통하고 싶어...

My favorite topics

세계 여러 나라 여행과 문화에 대해 이야기하고 싶어요. 간단한 일상과 취미에 관한 이야기도 나누고 싶어요.

Perfect language exchange partner

밝고 긍정적인 사람. 예술을 사랑하는 사람

Sasha

Sasha

Toronto

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English

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Russian

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German

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French

My favorite topics

Football, music, history, trave...

I want a conversation partner who is

Funny, patient because I'm slow haha. Just a person that I can have good conversations with.

My learning goals

Most of all I would love to have a good speaking German, so when I am in Germany I can hold a good conversation. Same with French

Anastasia

Anastasia

Toronto

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Greek

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English

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French

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Tagalog, Filipino

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Spanish

My language exchange partner is

Good sense of humour, Positive outlook and Considerat...

My learning goals

To refine my Spanish conversation

My favorite topics

Health and Wellness, Education and Word Affairs

Lawrence

Lawrence

Toronto

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English

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Cantonese

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Chinese (Simplified)

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French

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Japanese

My learning goals

Improve my delivery and communication skills in Mandarin, while...

My favorite topics

Current affairs, sports, traveling, food and drinks, business and finance

Ideal language community partner

Open-minded, knowledgeable and cheerful

Abe

Abe

Toronto

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English

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Amharic

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Spanish

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Italian

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Russian

My favorite topics

Movies, Sports, travel (películas, serías, deportes, viajar...

Ideal conversation exchange partner

Easy going, fun, responds quickly, doesn't take things too seriously (Divertido, amable, responde en menos que un día)

My learning goals

To be able to travel to Latin America and not be called a gringo ( hablar español suficientemente bien para viajar a Latinoamérica y no me llamen un gringo

Quan

Quan

Toronto

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English

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Emoji

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Chinese (Traditional)

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Japanese

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Korean

Perfect language exchange partner

Optimistic and cheerful. Open-minded to all sorts things...

My learning goals

Make new friends and hang out! Can learn something new from each other too!

My favorite topics

anything! I do like biking, hiking, snowboarding, kayaking and camping for those good, juicy stories!

Rachelle

Rachelle

Toronto

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Korean

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English

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Danish

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Italian

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Portuguese

My learning goals

I want to practice speaking French and Italian...

My favorite topics

Food, culture, art, animals, Travel, Health and medicine, science, movies, French cinema, music

I want a conversation partner who is

Spontaneous, passionate, humorous, good listener, willing to share experiences and stories, flexible, and open-minded. Willing to challenge me to improve my language skills

Looking for an online language exchange partner in Toronto, Canada?

Tandem is the world's largest language exchange app. There are currently 1,681 English speakers in Toronto looking to learn English together. Download the Tandem app for free to start practicing languages with locals!

Frequently Asked Questions

Do you know how many Tandem members are available for English language exchange in Toronto?

In Toronto there are 1,681 members ready to have a English language exchange.

Are there other locations in Canada other than Toronto where I can find a English language exchange partner?

You can also find a English Tandem partner in Vancouver, Surrey, and Quebec City.

What is the Tandem app all about?

Tandem is a language exchange app where people teach each other their native language. Each month more than 500,000 people visit Tandem with 1,681 of them coming from Toronto.