HighSpeed_LowDrag
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RE: Anyone used language exchanges to game sober
I recently signed up to an online language exchange located here: https://www.mylanguageexchange.com/Default.asp
It actually has some serious potential for game purposes.
- Over 3 million members worldwide
- Can easily search by city, country, gender and age range
- Pool of users self-selects for foreign non-Westernized girls
- Can use it either for gaming at home or while on travel
In two weeks of membership I've already managed to go on two outings with girls from the website. The major issue for anyone using this method is going to be converting the frame of the meetup from a friendly language-practicing chat to a date / introducing a romantic implication to the whole setup. If your game is sufficiently skilled that shouldn't be an issue.
The full membership option is $24USD / year, which allows you full range of access on the website, and (most importantly) allows you to write personalized e-mails (as openers) to any of the members. I strongly recommend anyone wanting to use this website buy the full membership.
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aeroektar
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RE: Anyone used language exchanges to game sober
(06-04-2017 02:12 PM)HighSpeed_LowDrag Wrote: I recently signed up to an online language exchange located here: https://www.mylanguageexchange.com/Default.asp
It actually has some serious potential for game purposes.
- Over 3 million members worldwide
- Can easily search by city, country, gender and age range
- Pool of users self-selects for foreign non-Westernized girls
- Can use it either for gaming at home or while on travel
In two weeks of membership I've already managed to go on two outings with girls from the website. The major issue for anyone using this method is going to be converting the frame of the meetup from a friendly language-practicing chat to a date / introducing a romantic implication to the whole setup. If your game is sufficiently skilled that shouldn't be an issue.
The full membership option is $24USD / year, which allows you full range of access on the website, and (most importantly) allows you to write personalized e-mails (as openers) to any of the members. I strongly recommend anyone wanting to use this website buy the full membership.
This is what I did a couple years ago when I was living in a big international US city and if I was still living there I would still be doing it, great way to meet FOB girls, I was using conversationexchange.com and another one I cant remember the name of.
I would message them on the website and then move it over to a messenger app so I could see pics or videochat, from there just set the first meet and basically treat it like a day date, go do stuff in the city and get to know each other, yeah theres some "how do I say this" or whatever but like you said for anyone with game its easy to shift the mood. More often then not I found that it was the girl who started talking about relationships and throwing out IOIs, they aren't just there for the language exchange either.
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Mr. Nobody From Nowhere
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RE: Anyone used language exchanges to game sober
(06-04-2017 02:12 PM)HighSpeed_LowDrag Wrote: I recently signed up to an online language exchange located here: https://www.mylanguageexchange.com/Default.asp
It actually has some serious potential for game purposes.
- Over 3 million members worldwide
- Can easily search by city, country, gender and age range
- Pool of users self-selects for foreign non-Westernized girls
- Can use it either for gaming at home or while on travel
In two weeks of membership I've already managed to go on two outings with girls from the website. The major issue for anyone using this method is going to be converting the frame of the meetup from a friendly language-practicing chat to a date / introducing a romantic implication to the whole setup. If your game is sufficiently skilled that shouldn't be an issue.
The full membership option is $24USD / year, which allows you full range of access on the website, and (most importantly) allows you to write personalized e-mails (as openers) to any of the members. I strongly recommend anyone wanting to use this website buy the full membership.
I picked up a few bangs and my LTR from that site. You absolutely have to be a gold member to get anything out of it (even for actual language exchange purposes) and it's honestly very clunky: lots of people don't have pictures, search optimization is kinda bad (if you're actually in a foreign city you need to search it in multiple languages, god help you if Romanization is non-standard like Korean for example), and the ToS specifically says you can get banned for using it like a dating site. That said, I've had big success from it and others can to. It's just kind of a pain in the ass.
For the actual topic, yeah language exchanges were one of my bread and butters living in Korea. The women are generally university aged, they speak at least passable English, and the competition is usually a joke. Personally my favourites were ones that ran from like 7-11pm so I could get my conversation mode on, pipeline at least one or two numbers, and then bounce my choice to a bar/motel. If it's a 3-6pm on a Sunday afternoon then you'll probably be stuck eating if you try to transition right into a date but its workable. Otherwise I'd just use them to rack up some numbers and pipeline for the week.
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The Good Life
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RE: Anyone used language exchanges to game sober
Another couple of resources that you guys can use:
http://www.italki.com - Langauge exchange website. In the search query, you can search for women from specific countries staying in your city.
There's also an app called Hello Talk. You can search for people nearest to you depending on the language.
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Stallion
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RE: Anyone used language exchanges to game sober
I second the in person ones. In big cities they can get really crowded, 100 people and above.
I prefer when they are standing up. Everyone writes the languages they speak/ want to practice on a sticker together with their name. You just walk around talking to random people. Very friendly atmosphere.
At other events you sit down and every table is a different language. These are worse for gaming and tend to be more serious (more of a learning vibe, instead of just socializing in different languages).
However if you are at a table where you speak fluently, and is a language that girls consider sexy (french, spanish, italian...) you can do very very well.
The online ones I have tried when I really want to practice the target language.
Instead of paying for lessons, I grab a glass of wine with a cute local girl and we speak in her language.
Then we switch and we speak in one of my languages so she can also practice.
At worst you got a free lesson with a cute girl. Normally girls who practice language X are into guys from country X, so it's not to hard to game.
Also, being a "cultural" exchange, it's extremely easy to suggest a second date at your place to cook some regional dish. Even extremely shy/conservative girls will agree to that.
I generally use Spanish for this, I have used French sometimes.
(This post was last modified: 06-14-2017 01:35 PM by Stallion.)
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