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My favorite topics

Pets/animals, travel, music, photography, food, sport...

My language exchange partner is

Anyone

My learning goals

To meet new people from different parts of the world and make new friends

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Birmingham

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Ideal language community partner

Somebody who's willing to help and will be encouragin...

My learning goals

I would like to challenge myself and discover my strengths

My favorite topics

Religion Comedy Movies Documentaries Current events around the world History Language accents

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Birmingham

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My learning goals

A genuine interest and understanding of my target language. Niveau...

My favorite topics

Sports, weigh training, Food, travel, your culture

Ideal conversation exchange partner

Not a dating but genuine and language lovers of languages. Would be great if you like food because no one in this world doesn’t like good food.

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Birmingham

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Perfect language exchange partner

Anyone who is willing to learn and share language based knowledge

My learning goals

Learning in a fun way

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English speakers in Birmingham

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Birmingham

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Someone who is patient and correcting my language mistakes. Easy...

My learning goals

Want to improve my spoken language skills in all my favourite languages, so I can easily keep up a conversation. My main focus is Italian right now and I’m very much a beginner.

My favorite topics

Tell me what makes you unique ☺️ Travel, culture, music, dance.

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Birmingham

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昼間は研究者、晩間はダンサーです。言語学習と文化の違いについて。

My language exchange partner is

Someone who’s dedicated to learn a language by studying the culture.

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Birmingham

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My favorite topics

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Ideal language community partner

Someone I can learn from

My learning goals

Improve my mandarin and refresh italian

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Birmingham

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Ideal conversation exchange partner

Kind, open minded, likes anime or manga, likes sciences, has...

My learning goals

Be able to hold a conversation in Japanese and make new friends

My favorite topics

Games, life and science(medicine), food and travelling. I like talking on we chat. My instagram: medifectious. I am currently studying medicine in the UK. I travel between Birmingham and London. I am travelling Malaysia and Vietnam

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My learning goals

To become fluent in my target language...

My favorite topics

Fashion health and fitness food poetry art reading video games

Perfect language exchange partner

Likeminded people who can hold a good conversation.

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Birmingham

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Tagalog, Filipino

My favorite topics

I love rivers, waterfalls hot springs/nature.and eating food...

I want a conversation partner who is

anybody willing to help me learn and I can return the favour by teaching some English. Travellers back packers and anybody with experience.

My learning goals

To be able to have a conversation in Portuguese and Spanish..

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Birmingham

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My language exchange partner is

Open-minded, patient, cultured and fun!...

My learning goals

Gaining more self confidence in speaking in the target languages

My favorite topics

Travel, tech, languages, literature, birding, culture and fitness

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Birmingham

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My learning goals

Improve my language skills in Spanish German and russia...

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History, culture, sport, pretty much anything

Ideal language community partner

Someone with a lot to say and someone who has interesting conversation

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Have fun, engaging conversations

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My favorite topics

Pan africanism, Music, Travel, history. Adore cooking. Hairdressing,...

Ideal conversation exchange partner

Someone consistent, funny and can carry a conversation

My learning goals

Learn 2 languages fluently

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Birmingham

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Perfect language exchange partner

Someone who is nice and funny but can build up a strong lasting...

My learning goals

To be able to understand Japanese more than I do now and to read sentences in Japanese.

My favorite topics

Lifestyle, culture, and food

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Birmingham

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My learning goals

I'd love to be able to hold a conversation in a second language...

My favorite topics

I enjoy MMA, Cooking and Adventure

I want a conversation partner who is

Someone who's willing to get to know me and has lots of exciting stories that we can both share together.

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Birmingham

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My favorite topics

Food, memes, dogs, games, anime, cats, science and working ou...

My language exchange partner is

Someone cool, friendly, and likes to laugh. Wants to learn English

My learning goals

Be able to speak the basics of a new language.

Jun

Jun uses Tandem to improve his English speaking and listening skills.

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“Tandem Pro has given me lifelong friends. I met them all through the “Near me” feature, which shows people practicing languages in the city where you live. 100% recommend.”

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Birmingham

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Ideal language community partner

Someone easy to talk to and interestin...

My learning goals

To improve my language skills

My favorite topics

Banter and shanter

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Birmingham

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My learning goals

To improve my language skills and cultural awarenes...

My favorite topics

Anything but do enjoy discussing science, history and religion People and cultures

Ideal conversation exchange partner

Respectful, knowledgeable and easy going

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Birmingham

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My favorite topics

To travel, learn languages and to watch series....

Perfect language exchange partner

Open minded.

My learning goals

Get better and practice the languages that I'm learning.

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Birmingham

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I want a conversation partner who is

Patient, friendly intelligent, easy going...

My learning goals

To be able to speak informally like the locals. Ask for things easy. Read signs and labels and commands. Hold a conversation between 10-15mins. How to speak politely to other cultures.

My favorite topics

Art. Politics. Music. Ideas. World events. Different cultures.

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Birmingham

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My learning goals

To either be fluent or know enough of the language Im learning...

My favorite topics

Exploring new things, learning and getting to know more people internationally

My language exchange partner is

Have great humour and can be a great help and have similar interests (Kpop, stories , photography/art and science)

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Birmingham

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Philosophy, Music, Art, Current Affairs, Language, Culture, Asi...

Ideal language community partner

Someone local that is sensible person.

My learning goals

Have fun while learning!

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Birmingham

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Ideal conversation exchange partner

Has free time! Meeting in person. Intelligent- interested in...

My learning goals

Communicate fluently and correctly to level of understanding jokes and idioms

My favorite topics

Cinema, society, basic pyschology, culture.

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Birmingham

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My learning goals

To better my conversational skills and master more social /colloquial...

My favorite topics

Languages, music, neuroscience, computer science, travelling, history

Perfect language exchange partner

Someone who is keen to help and give useful corrections and just in general is friendly.

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Birmingham

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Music, culture, anything really...

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Humorous, kind, caring people who are able to teach me their language

My learning goals

Being able to speak it fluently wo I can talk to foreign people I their language

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Birmingham

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My learning goals

I wanna practice my French and Japanese

My favorite topics

Language learning and foreign culture.I love to talk with people from different countries .I like to make friends and do sports ‍♂️music and movie and I like travel .

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Birmingham

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My learning goals

I want to get better at the languages I’m learning, be able to...

My favorite topics

Hobbies, cultural exchanges etc

Ideal language community partner

Someone who I can get along with and have a fun language exchange with

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Birmingham

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I like talking about anything. I like talking about what happened...

Ideal conversation exchange partner

I want to talk to everyone and anyone. I love meeting new people! I would love to talk to some high school students but also college students. Anyone who can help me to get better at learning my language while still making new friends! ❤️

My learning goals

I want to be able to travel to new countries and be able to speak to people without having a huge language barrier. I wanna be able to go places without needing a translator. But I also wanna meet now people, and get to know about new cultures.

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Birmingham

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friendly, loving and funn...

My learning goals

fluent in mandarin and korean

My favorite topics

eating

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Birmingham

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My learning goals

I want to be able to at least speak a couple sentences of my...

My favorite topics

I like talking about books, movies, anime, animals... honestly anything I just love talking to people!

I want a conversation partner who is

Anyone who knows the language/ sign language I wanna learn or wants to learn English and it would be nice if they like talking but honestly I don’t mind.

Looking for an online language exchange partner in Birmingham, United Kingdom?

Tandem is the world's largest language exchange app. There are currently 341 English speakers in Birmingham 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 Birmingham?

In Birmingham there are 341 members ready to have a English language exchange.

Are there other locations in United Kingdom other than Birmingham where I can find a English language exchange partner?

You can also find a English Tandem partner in <a href=/learn/english/stoke-on-trent />Stoke-on-Trent, <a href=/learn/english/harrow />Harrow, and <a href=/learn/english/sale />Sale.

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 341 of them coming from Birmingham.