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Important Information: The GSA thanks Alistair Bird for continuing to manage GSA Language Swap. By using this service, you accept that any data that you provide will not be managed by the GSA. You further accept that that GSA will not accept any responsibility for this service.

To participate in Language Swap simply fill in all the required information in the form below, and click submit.

Required Information

Full Name:
Lancaster Email Address: Must end in '@lancaster.ac.uk' or '@lancs.ac.uk'

Native or Fluent language(s):
1) Proficiency:
2) Proficiency:
3) Proficiency:

Languages to practise:
Put the language you most want to learn at the top
Choose Any if you do not mind which languages your language partner speaks, or if you just want to help them learn your own language.
Follow the links for lists of world languages and languages popular in Language Swap, and a rough guide to proficiency levels

1) Proficiency:
2) Proficiency:
3) Proficiency:
4) Proficiency:

Leaving Date:
This is the last month that you will be contacted.
Month: Year:

Optional Information

Tell us about yourself

Age:
Sex: Male Female
University Status:
Country of origin:

World Languages

(Bold signifies languages popular in Language Swap)
EUROPEAN: INDIAN: ASIAN: MIDDLE EASTERN: AFRICAN:
Albanian Assamese Cantonese Afghan, Dari Akan
Bulgarian Awadhi Japanese Afghan, Pashto Amharic
Croatian Bengali Kazakh Arabic Hausa
Czech Bhojpuri Korean Arabic, Algerian Igbo
Dutch Chhattisgarhi Malay Farsi Rwanda
English Deccan Mandarin Hebrew Somali
French Gujurati Saraiki Kurdish, Kurmanji Swahili
German Haryanvi Sindhi Kurdish, Sorani Yoruba
Greek Hindi Sinhala Uzbek Zulu
Hungarian Kannada Tagalog
Italian Magahi Thai
Latvian Maithili Urdu
Lithuanian Malayalam Vietnamese
Norwegian Marathi
Polish Marwari
Portuguese Oriya
Romanian Punjabi
Russian Tamil
Serbian Telugu
Spanish
Swedish
Ukrainian

Our current participants want to

Help you learn: Practise their:
English English
Mandarin Spanish
Hindi French
German Italian
Cantonese German
Italian Japanese
Japanese Arabic
Punjabi Igbo
Spanish Mandarin
Telugu
Lithuanian

Proficiency Levels
None You have never spoken the language before
Beginner You can give personal details (name, address, age, marital status...), name everyday objects and events (e.g. describing your day to day activities), ask and provide information in everyday situations (transport, accommodation, food and drink etc.)
Intermediate You can identify ideas, information and opinion from different sources. You can express opinion on different topics although needs to broaden vocabulary. You are able to use a variety of tenses and expressions with reasonable accuracy and find some alternative expressions to modify language.
Advanced You are able to understand conversations between native speakers with standard accents on most topics at normal speed. You can cope with TV programmes (no subtitles), films or radio reports without major difficulties.
Fluent You are able to speak and understand the language at nearly the level of a native speaker with little effort.
Native A language you grew up speaking, your home country's or parents' language.