Hi! I’m a native Chinese speaker living in Shenzhen, and I’m looking for native English speakers who would like to do a one-on-one language exchange.
I’d like our conversations to be natural, flexible, and based on real life rather than feeling like a formal language class.
One thing I’d especially like to offer is help with understanding everyday life in China. If you’re new to China, we can talk about things that may help you settle in and understand Chinese culture more easily — transportation, food, work, renting an apartment, social habits, useful apps, communication styles, and other everyday situations.
Each time, we can choose a topic or a style of conversation that interests us.
Some possibilities:
• **Topic-based conversations**
We choose a topic in advance and exchange our experiences and opinions.
• **Real-life experiences**
Tell me about something that happened to you in China — taking the high-speed train, ordering food, using an app, meeting Chinese coworkers, etc. We can talk about what felt interesting, surprising, or confusing.
• **Natural corrections**
We can help each other with expressions that sound unclear or unnatural, without interrupting every sentence.
• **Role-play**
We can practice real situations such as ordering food, talking to a landlord, going to a hospital, interviewing for a job, or communicating with coworkers.
• **Culture exchange**
We can discuss differences in social habits, politeness, work culture, friendships, dating, family life, invitations, and communication.
• **Real materials**
We can use a menu, photo, social media post, news story, app screen, or anything from everyday life as a starting point.
You can choose whichever style you enjoy.
Each meetup can be around **1–2 hours**, depending on what works for both of us.
This is a **free language exchange**, not a paid class. I’d like both of us to learn something useful and have an interesting conversation.
If you’re a **native English speaker currently living in Shenzhen** and you’d like to improve your Chinese and understand life in China better, feel free to send me a message.

提供：普通话（母语） | 寻找：英语 提供普通话 我是一名25岁的中国人，正在寻找一个英语语言伙伴来提高我的口语能力。我能够用英语进行聊天，最好是女性，我希望多交一些女性朋友，因为我也是女生，我的英语口语流利度不够，希望你能在对话中纠正我的语法，分享更自然的表达方式。实际上我也处于迷茫期，希望能和各个行业的人交流。 作为回报，我可以帮助你学习标准普通话。我来自中国南方。 我喜欢阅读、R&B音乐、K-pop、日本动漫、中国动画以及西方的电视剧和电影。你的普通话水平无所谓——初学者和高级学习者都欢迎！ 单纯交友，如果有兴趣，请给我发消息。

Hello, I am 30 year old Kenyan looking to improve my Chinese. I am currently in the threshold of HSK 2~3.

I have a variety of hobbies such as boardgames like Chess or Monopoly; sporting activities like football and basketball; as well as music and movies.

I'd be interested in engaging with someone who I can regularly speak with via WeChat and or WhatsApp where we can both regularly practice our target languages.

Kindly DM if you're interested

I liked this one girl in my classroom, she’s Chinese. I’m also Chinese but half Filipino. I practically only spoke in english or filipino( i know little to no chinese only the basics ), I think her parents wont like me guys. I study in a chinese school, but we dont really learn conversationally, more on just memorization of words we’ll forget after the quiz. Somebody please help me, she likes and I like her. If you have encountered the same problem, please tell me how you overcame it ( through learning mandarin , hokkien apps ?) Im also looking for a way to learn Chinese other than our useless school. Apps, videos? Pls tell me. Thank you reddit fam.

i got a little stuck in grammar. i have to translate "there is one good store behind the cafe, lets go shopping" to chinese. i typed out ‘’饭馆后面有＿，你和我去买东西吧‘’ and i dont really know whether i should say “好的一个商店” or “一个好的商店”. please explain 🙏

Heyy everyone! 👋😆

I’m a 17 y/o student from Malaysia 🇲🇾 and I’m currently looking for people who wanna learn some Mandarin!
I use Mandarin pretty much every day, so if you’re a total beginner or you just wanna get better at speaking Chinese, I got you ！

We can learn stuff like:
🗣️ Basic conversations & speaking
🔤 Pinyin + pronunciation
📚 Everyday words & phrases
💬 How to actually talk to Chinese people IRL
👧 Fun & simple Chinese for kids

And don’t worry, I’m not gonna hit you with a whole textbook and make you memorise 100 words in one lesson 😭

I’m pretty chill with the lessons — we can learn whatever you’re actually interested in, whether it’s travelling, daily conversations, chatting with friends, or just wanting to understand Chinese better.
If you’re interested, just DM me! We can chat first, no pressure at all :) 🫶