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Learn Italian in Berkeley

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My favorite topics

Business, news, sport, world's big things, new culture...

My language exchange partner is

Fun, polite, international,

My learning goals

Improving conversation and getting new friends

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Berkeley

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Ideal language community partner

Someone who likes to history geography literature and travelin...

My learning goals

My goal Is to master 7 language. Actually I’m mastering 4. I would like to master more languages to use it in my professional career

My favorite topics

The most topic I like to discuss about it is history

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Berkeley

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My learning goals

MAKE MORE FRIENDS...

My favorite topics

An engineer working hard to get Master degree at UCB. It's exciting to meet everyone around the world.

Ideal conversation exchange partner

Anyone!

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Berkeley

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My favorite topics

Food, nature, travel, current world events, and politics. Generally,...

Perfect language exchange partner

Someone who is able to balance having fun and engaging conversations about interesting subjects with helping me learn the language.

My learning goals

My top priority now is to learn a little bit of conversational Italian before my trip to Rome in late July. Longer term, I am also interested in learning German as well.

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Berkeley

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I want a conversation partner who is

Someone who is easy to talk t...

My learning goals

I would like to eventually be able to form sentences without having to spend long periods of time trying to translate English to another language.

My favorite topics

I enjoy discussing traveling, politics, history, pop culture, and food.

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Berkeley

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My learning goals

English is for living and work. Other languages are maybe sometimes...

My favorite topics

travel, daily staff, music, news, etc

My language exchange partner is

Nice, educated, open to talk tons of topics.

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Berkeley

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My favorite topics

Traveling food photography startup business entrepreneurship...

Ideal language community partner

Like-minded entrepreneur who loves traveling, learning and exploring the tech world.

My learning goals

Become fluent in Thai in one year

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Berkeley

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Ideal conversation exchange partner

Delicated. Consistent. Inspirin...

My learning goals

Japanese: advanced speaker

My favorite topics

No romance please. I am looking for serious language exchange partner. 真面目な方と一緒に勉強したい

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Berkeley

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My learning goals

Improve my speakin...

My favorite topics

History, sociology, hobbies, music and other stuff

Perfect language exchange partner

A graduate student

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My favorite topics

religion, social justice, math and scienc...

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ਤੋਹੀ ਮੋਹੀ ਮੋਹੀ ਤੋਹੀ ਅੰਤਰੁ ਕੈਸਾ

My learning goals

improve conversation, poetry a plus

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Berkeley

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My language exchange partner is

Anyone who is good to chat with☺...

My learning goals

Pass test/Study aboard/Make friends around the world

My favorite topics

swimming/music/travel/✍️writing/Watch series (of American, Korean, China, Japan...

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Berkeley

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My learning goals

To increase my level of conversational Englis...

My favorite topics

Lifestyle, politics, movies, travelling, cultural life, food, technology, video games

Ideal language community partner

Any people which live in English speaken countries:)

Connect with learners around the world

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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

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Berkeley

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Korean

My favorite topics

I like discussing music, science, culture, and literatur...

Ideal conversation exchange partner

Not sure yet! 그냥 한국인 친구 만나면 좋겠어요! 반가워요

My learning goals

I want to practice my fluency with Korean. I hope I can learn to sound more natural. 더 자연스럽개 쓰고 얘기하고 싶어요.

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Berkeley

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My learning goals

To improve my language skills

My favorite topics

Game, food, Diet

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Berkeley

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My learning goals

To develop speaking in German .. To learn some diff German words...

My favorite topics

About anything, food , hobbies ,life culture , love , fun , party , musics ,sports .. I love to discuss any topics ;)

I want a conversation partner who is

Friendly, cool , can spend time when you are free .. Jovial and easy going ,chatter box :D

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Berkeley

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My favorite topics

reading, literature, math, philosophy, cooking,travel ...

My language exchange partner is

kind, friendly, warm-hearted, nice

My learning goals

my vocabulary reaches -- 20,000 by this semester

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Ideal language community partner

Someone who are patient and willing to help me...

My learning goals

Improving my spoken English

My favorite topics

Everything

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Berkeley

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My learning goals

I want to fine tune my accent and accelerate my vocabular...

My favorite topics

Culture, food, travel, environment, nature

Ideal conversation exchange partner

A flexible and kind native French speaker

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Berkeley

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Italian

My favorite topics

Anything and everything...

Perfect language exchange partner

Someone to practice with!

My learning goals

Holding a conversation!

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Preferably lives near Berkeley and wouldn’t mind meeting up over...

My learning goals

I would like to learn how to speak Mandarin because I am half Chinese but I was born in raised in Canada. I’ve only visited China once, however I wasn’t able to understand anything or communicate with my relatives.

My favorite topics

Music and concerts, TV shows (currently watching Game of Thrones and The Good Place), Fitness, and trying to get better at cooking!

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My learning goals

Gain fluency, learn about culture and differences...

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I like to discuss culture, trivia, movies.

My language exchange partner is

Someone interested in everything!

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Berkeley

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Food, travel, anything really just love to practice...

Ideal language community partner

Someone who wants to help me learn French and who I can help learn English.

My learning goals

I am planning on moving to France so want to get comfortable speaking.

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I'm willing to talk with anyone! But I would much prefer to talk...

My learning goals

I want to improve as much as I can, and hopefully make a friend.

My favorite topics

I really like languages, and in particular I like helping people with pronunciation (I've studied Phonetics), but I also just like seeing people improve. I really like Snowboarding, Science (I used to be a tutor), and Fighting Games. I'm bilingual.

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Berkeley

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Thai: I want to learn more language, learn about cultural norms,...

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History Technology and science Global Politics Anime DIY Looks like I’m getting famous on here for my love of Thai songs and culture. I don’t know what’s wrong with me, I just love Isaan songs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Perfect language exchange partner

You!

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Berkeley

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Anyone who's into talking and learning a different language, which should cover everyone here

My learning goals

I want to improve my Kazakh to the point where I am able to have a conversation with native speakers.

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Berkeley

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Learning as much as i can!

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Anything

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Art, music, books, film, philosophy, linguistics, languages

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Anyone into sharing rad music/art/etc!

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Berkeley

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Movies, music, paint...

Ideal conversation exchange partner

respectful, friendly, nice, funny, with different topics in mind.

My learning goals

Be able to speak English fluently. I know I selected "I also speak English. However, I just selected with the purpose of having more access to English speakers, even if the algorithm of this app doesn't work in that way, I just wanted to try it

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Berkeley

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I want to improve my English,and help others with Arabic

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Movies and cultures and traveling

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Berkeley

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Improve my spoken English...

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Music,Movies,Travels,Geophysics...anything

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I hope we can keep talking like friends.

Looking for an online language exchange partner in Berkeley, United States?

Tandem is the world's largest language exchange app. There are currently 88 Italian speakers in Berkeley looking to learn Italian 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 Italian language exchange in Berkeley?

In Berkeley there are 88 members ready to have a Italian language exchange.

Are there other locations in United States other than Berkeley where I can find a Italian language exchange partner?

You can also find a Italian Tandem partner in <a href=/learn/italian/marietta />Marietta, <a href=/learn/italian/arlington />Arlington, and <a href=/learn/italian/hialeah />Hialeah.

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 88 of them coming from Berkeley.