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Tandem language learning

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Tandem language learning is a method of language learning based on mutual language exchange between tandem partners (ideally each learner is a native speaker in the language the proponent wants to learn). Many language schools in the world, organised as TANDEM International, as well as many universities, are working with this method.

An e-mail based variant is called eTandem.

Several series of tandem handbooks have been published in many languages as a result of the European Union funded projects: [1]

  • LINGUA project "International E-Mail Tandem Network" (1994-1996)
  • Open and Distance Learning project "Telematics for Autonomous and Intercultural Tandem Learning" (1996-1999).
  • LINGUA-D project "Tandem Language Learning Partnerships for Schools" (1998-2000)

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