face to face?

Do any of you have what we call "face to face" schemes in your unis?

In a nutshell, it's a big noticeboard where you fill in a little form and they pin it up. It allows you to offer the languages you speak to others (ie - English + any others if you're bilingual) and you can request languages you would like yourself. You give your email addy and people may contact you if they want you (and obviously you can email people if you want them..)

Have any of you done this?
I emailed an Arab guy for Arabic lol.. I'm meeting him next week.

How can I make that silly yellow slip thing look pretty and therefore attract Germans ?!?! :P:

some girls have drawn stars and stuff in bright purple ink lol

Haha yeah i saw

I saw both yours as well - greedy avin two!!

Nice handwriting tho

All the people are dead old, I got the e-mail addresses of two Italians heh, scared!

haha ye.. The Arabic I put up because I'd like to learn Egyptian Arabic too for some reason (that's what's written in Arabic (Arabic - "MSA or Egyptian").. it's a nice dialect (but obviously MSA - modern standard arabic - is the more important one). The German one I put up because.. ye.. to keep it up lol.

Nice one for going for Italian!!
By the way.. if you chose a guy called Paolo, he's taken. (not saying he won't want two lol.. he might do) I *kind of* know him through that Italian girl in my Chinese class..

Hehe just TOO greedy! Have you had any responses?!?!

Nah I didn't go for Paolo, too old!! I was looking for someone youngish cause I don't wanna be TOO intimidated!

lol I met the Arab guy today - very cool fella. It was kinda weird tho.. we just kept running outta things to say! and about 90% of it was in English anyway.. my Arabic being SO beginners! But everytime that happened, I just asked him a random question about the different dialects of Arabic haha..

His English is not bad - not THAT good enough so he'd make me seem like an idiot, but not that bad - bad enough so I can point out common errors and stuff

It was cool tho.. I just really need to think of things to ask him!! and it's brilliant because it's kinda incited me to "get a move on" with my Arabic!! I learnt some cool and useful words tho

sooooooo you gonna be meeting him again then??

ye every monday and wednesday i think at 4.. but his timetable is so full-on.. it's all a bit awkward lol. but ye, will be meeting him again.

That's awesome!
How lucky r u

lol i guess.. the great thing is, I met another Arab (from Kuwait) through this guy, and he's doing Masters in Linguistics! Made another friend hehe