IIEL Language Exchange System

The idea of the language exchange system is to give you an opportunity to practise Japanese in one-to-one style, and give our students (your exchange partner) an opportunity to practise English (or another language.)

The Language Exchange Message will be displayed on the Institute noticeboard at IIEL Greenwich Campus Charlton House, for the attention of our Japanese students. Your contact details will only be disclosed to our students who want to do language exchange with you. The students will then contact you directly.

The students (who will be your language exchange partner) call or email you, and you can then descuss when and where to meet on a regular basis.

We recommend you to meet once a week for two hours so as to do an hour of Japanese and one hour of English (or another language), and to use a public place to do the language exchange.

Tell your language exchange partner what you find difficult about learning Japanese in your experience and ask your language exchange partner about their difficulties with English.

Together think of strategies to improve your language skills (perhaps using your textbooks). We hope that this language exchange system will be of mutual benefit to you and our students. Thank you very much for your understanding and cooperation.