Diana is an avid language learner and has the best posts on HelloTalk. She found that poetry was an excellent means to improve her English, and she recommends Wild Geese by Mary Oliver.

Diana shares her experience about practicing English, French, and Portuguese. She is the podcast host of 3Diminutes, which you can find on Spotify and Youtube.

How long does it take to find a language partner on HelloTalk? This time it took me 24 minutes, but I only had an exchange for 12 minutes. So my partner practiced English for 6 minutes, and I practiced speaking Spanish for 6 minutes! I'm a busy person and I don't have this kind of spare time to waste every day just to find a language partner.

You have to post publicly or message a bunch of people. Not everybody you message or who shows interest in speaking actually wants to speak! Whether at that time that you're ready, or at all! There is a lot of inefficiency with HelloTalk for this reason.

This is why we built Fluentel. https://fluen.tel

00:00 ok let's find a language partner

00:06 start search for language partner

01:06 posted request for partner

01:42 first message received

07:18 still looking for a language partner

18:22 exchange created; not joined

22:30 finally connected to language partner

23:27 post-call analysis

27:08 How Fluentel is different

In this episode we interviewed Paisley from the Learn German through Music podcast. Here's a few highlights of what we discussed:

• As an infant, some of her first words were German, but it was music like Einstürzende Neubauten later in life that got her interested in the German language
• In university, Paisley majored in German, studied abroad in Tübingen and Munich, and completed her capstone project on Caspar David Friedrich
• She had a gap of over 10 years where her language level dropped to a B1, but the parts of the language stuck with her the most were from her experience with German music
• If she could learn a new language with extra time, it would be Afrikaans!

Check out the Learn German Through Music podcast on Spotify. Also, visit her podcast page on Anchor where you can listen to each episode, send Paisley a voice message, and access the other social media accounts. Follow the podcast on Twitter @GermanthruMusic

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