The Mixxer is a free educational site for language learners hosted by Dickinson College. The Mixxer is designed to connect language learners around the world so that everyone is both student and teacher. Based on collaborative learning, this website is a must-visit for language learners. Among the variety of choices you have you can get on writing on the language you are learning and let the community help you proof-checking your writing. It's so interesting to receive such an amount and diverse opinions from native speakers around the world.You can encourage your students to start a blog on their site or just write posts in the target language. They have a points system based on your corrections to others writing. You can earn 10 points for each correction you send.
You might be interested in signin up for an event on their site, there are a lot of language exchanges between schools around the world, individuals...
You can/must also help others. You can help your language partner learn your native language. How? Leaving comments on other people's writing.
Teachers - Are you a professional teacher? If so, you can connect your students with native speakers via written posts or Skype during or after class hours. This may help you fill your extra-credit hours for your language class or you can also use it for enrichment with your advanced students.
Interested? Sign up then email them at bryantt@dickinson.edu requesting teacher permissions. They'll just need something to verify you're a teacher and not a spammer. :)
Find them on: http://www.language-exchanges.org
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
Rabindranath Tagore
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