So you want to practice your English. So maybe you want to go and join an Conversation Club in Vancouver.
So you can go to Google and write, "English Conversation Meetup"
and enter
English Conversation Meetups near Vancouver British Columbia
press on the link
and you'll find some examples of different clubs
and this one is probably the best because it has
1257 conversationalists--that'speople who want to talk
So there's 1,257 conversationalist, so now, I would choose this one.
And here it is--Meetup
Meetup--www.meetup.com/ESL- Conversation-classes/ is the address.
They have members...
photos, pages, discussions, and more.
They also have, "Join Us."
So you go down here and you can see the next meetup. Join us for English conversational fun.
Saturday, May 12th--that's tomorrow 6:30 PM--at Smiley's Public House, 911 Pender Street West. All of these people are going. Let' s look at that.
OK here is.
So, it's a pub and I guess the people are going to be
um eating and drinking
and all of these people are going and you can find out about the people by putting your mouse over, "Hi, I'm Ron from Korea I have
I have a hobby to learn English and to make friends. I look to make new freinds and learn every day.
OK that's one person.
Let's see, Cecilia, "Hi everyone. I'm Cecilia from South America I'm new to the city so I want to make new friends."
OK, here's another one.
Bella Min Jeong Go. My name is Min Jeong GO. English name is Bella. I like to make new friends
OK so you can see that all of these people are going.
There's an organizer.
I'm a dual citizen--American and Canadian. I moved to the Vancouver area around 3 years ago.
This person, OK all of these people are going-- seven not attending, 27 attending--You have to join if you want to go.
You may not want to go to that one because you may be busy or something like that.
So let's see what else they have--OK so you go down...
This one is Monday five o'clock. That might be better for you--OK so Monday.
So you see the location is only shown to members. You have to join, so um...
You can see that all these people are going. You can see who is going. You can decide do you want to go or not.
um
Ahmad, may name is Ahmad. I'm really willing to improve my English language and way, OK so we have there..
Uh Carol, so you know, you can see
R. Cheng. That's Ron from Korea, again and this is the organizer I have lots of
experience helping ESL students, so he's I guess a teacher.
Now, how do you join this group? You press here: join us. Then you have to introduce yourself. Let's just say I'm gonna join but not
really. Uh, I and from
Montreal
OK
next
There's my picture. You can upload a photo - uh whrere are you from? Answer
I'm from Montreal.
How long will you stay Vancouver? I will stay in Vancouver
forever.
What days, time and location suits you for events? Weekends
and uh
after 5:00 pm
List some of your interests OK, swimming,
wallking, uh meeting new people, OK next
Conversational English so you wanna get uh
messages
Uh you can put as they are sent, in one daily e-mail, don't send the message, uh whatever, email me when this group's message board is
updated. You could put click--you can change it later probably. Follow me on... If you want to
have people check your Facebook page, you can. I wouldn't do that.
um and then
You press submit.
Now, I'm not going to press submit because I'm not joining this group, but I'm just showing you how to do it.
That's about it. Ifyou want to look at the photos
and there's some photos of the meetups
and you can see what the people do
for example they had a Vanlentine's party
this meetup group, lots of different pictures--you can see
What did they do
So you can see who goes, how old are they--decide, sometimes different
places have different ages
For example if you go to the coffee--it's usually older
and Pub night is usually younger
see this one is the
is the um
coffee
So that's about it. So if you'd like to join, now you know how to do it.
OK I hope you
will practice your English and try to meet new friends
and the best way to learn English is to use it. So you need to try a little bit and go
outside and meet people who do not speak your language. That's the best way!
OK have fun!