8 posts were split to a new topic: “Driving” side discussion from “Finding Practice Parnters”
Isnt this what Amikumu does?
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Not quite, to the best of my understanding - Amikumu helps you find other speakers with a view to meeting up to practice - I don’t believe the app currently has any video chat capability, although @Deborah-SSi may be able to confirm that…?
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Aran’s right. Amikumu aims to help you find speakers of a specific language that are geographically close to you, and you can send them text messages, but at the moment there is no video capability. The purpose of Amikumu is to facilitate contact, but it’s up to the people using it then to decide if they want to meet in person, or use some other method of communication.
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This would be brilliant! He speaks Welsh so might help (if we think the same Jonathan Davies (Jiffy). 
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I don’t know if this will work, but here’s the link for the Wednesday hangout. (fancy dress is optional)
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It works, and then again, you don’t need invitation to take part at all. Sign in and you’re there … (at least I see it working this way). The only limitation is having acount on Slack but you can simply create one from your link onwards.
@Conor92 you really are a star.
I’m confident but not even close to be brilliant speaker so I don’t even dare to offer any kind of help. I’d be a part of takers not organizers though. Sorry if I disappoined someone with my abilities but that’s how it is … I don’t want to give people the wrong performance of language as I’m a bit “careless” speaker (what means I just say the things my way which means they’re not neither gramarly nor wordly correct) and I don’t think any learner would have a benefit from this, rather the oposite way, they might find it a trouble. Well, however, I never really heard how the participants of @ramblingjohn’s group chat feel about my speach but I many times have a feeling they can’t quite understand me though.
One question though if I decide to join in any form of myself …
It works on apps too (including PC app) and you don’t need to go to the website at all? I presume Slack version is something similar to Discord in order to chat. Do I have right on this? (not that I tried to chat on Discord though) …
Thx.
I have no trouble understanding you at all
Yeah, though if you want to join/lead a hangout you’ll need to have hangouts open on a browser.
Not super familiar with discord (I’ve used it a bit with a few friends but haven’t really got into the channel stuff), but they do seem very similar. A few differences that come to mind are the ability to have friends on discord and slack’s new profile for every workspace.
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Me too, Tatjana, all the time! I tell myself it’s my mouth struggling to keep pace with my brain 
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Far better that than your brain struggling to keep pace with your mouth. That’s just dangerous! 
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I’m hoping to spot you online there soon, Tatjana, - it’s time we caught up!
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If you maybe didn’t know, discord now offers video chat and video streaming too. They do something new every single week. Developing fast but hopefully the momentum would not stop all of a sudden.
Wooo, thank oyu. This is direct invitation I just can’t refuse, can I? I even don’t want to refuse it so here I come (Slack) World. (shhh … I have to figure out some "how to"s first too … )
Yes … I sometimes am too quick saying something so I’m learning to think faster than I speak (not totally mastered that skill yet to be honest.)
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I’ll look out for you on Slack then Tatjana - we can gabble carelessly to each other! 
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and i worry about my mistakes which people won’t understand,
(remember you are not alone when it comes to being imperfect).
Cheers J.P.
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Well, mail sent some while ago (some while means after I’ve finished troubeling people on here. 
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Hiya Aran
Is it IK for us that are already 6mws slack users to join the other slack channel?
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Sure, absolutely! I think for the time being you’ll find that there’s more going on in 6mws, but in the long term WSP should turn into a terrific resource…
email sent!
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I went on earlier to have a look, and managed to miss Nicky in a room…
It certainly looks promising and I’ll check back for a very brief chat at lunchtime with someone to try it out properly. I must say it isn’t particularly intuitive at first glance though, and I’m not remotely scared of tech. I think my Dad (who hates Skype) would take one look and never come back. I wonder if we could improve the introduction to help people jump in?
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So I think I’ve managed to download the slack application for my phone…is this where other people are doing it, or on the desktop?
Cheers
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More than happy to stick any good suggestions in - also feel that it seems so far to get very high engagement rates - more so than the forum! It’s not clear what the best way is to make sure that everyone gets to see the ‘getting around Slack’ video… but I hope over time we’ll all be able to figure out improvements…
@Bleddyn - I use the app on my phone sometimes, but mostly desktop - it seems a pretty consistent experience, so I wouldn’t worry too much either way…
I don’t access the web or use apps on my phone, so it’s always desktop (laptop) for me.
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