Our passion is teaching English to immigrants...and learning English from experts! Join us to study English in a loose, closely knit group, among friends. Not your regular classroom setting, but caring and sharing.   Here is a post about the literature classes that I posted in my blog in May of 2011. It has links to the text and a bit about them.

Learn to speak with clarity and confidence. This class is for anyone who would like to expand their communication skills, reduce their regionalisms and feel more confident speaking. Participants learn how to be heard while remaining centered, relaxed and focused. Excellent skill for those in the corporate field, actors, anyone who wants to communicate effortlessly. Susan Finch has been teaching speech for over twenty 25 years. She uses The Edith Skinner Method as taught to her at The Juilliard S …

Hello, CJK Experts! Don’t you feel it's hard to fill the gap between your level and native-speakers’ level? Are you looking for partners to practice your Chinese, Japanese or Korean (CJK) in an immerse environment? This meetup group is the right fit for you!! We practice Chinese, Japanese and Korean through interpretation methods such as quick response, shadowing, reproduction, retention, sight translation, summarization, etc. These methods enable you highly concentrate on listening, understandi …

This group is for anyone looking to do fun things with great people! We do SO MANY types of activities, you will certainly find something you enjoy: dinners, bars, picnics, museums, trips, volunteering... even down to the most obscure things. The purpose of this group is to introduce foreigners to Americans, so we can all learn about each other and one another's culture. This is not a dating site but if you meet your perfect match here, that's wonderful!

I am a native speaker of Mandarin Chinese from Taiwan and I want to create a community where all the Chinese Mandarin learners/students can get together and practice spoken Chinese. Our focus will be on speaking and listening rather than writing and reading. You will learn the practical spoken Mandarin at this meetup. We have advanced Mandarin Chinese conversation meeting regularly and also have small classes for beginner and intermediate learners.

I wanted to practice speaking and listening in Spanish. Since most of the Spanish Language Meetups are in Manhattan I decided to start one here in Westbury in Nassau County. Join us if you too want to improve your fluency in Spanish while socializing and enjoying a meal.  We encourage only speaking in Spanish but do not worry we will help if you get stuck.