Welcome! Would you like to practice speaking English or help others with their English speaking skills through informal conversation? Let's talk with each other and gain self confidence.

TO JOIN GROUP: Click on the " Join us!" button in the upper right. Fill out ALL profile questions. Short answers are fine. Note: Japanese characters do not work in profiles. Wait for the organizer to respond. The best way to find out about this meetup is to join the group and check out our calendar, past and future events. There are meetups every week. This Meetup is for everyone interested in Japanese culture / language / food / people / and more!! ** Study and …

Spanish as a Second Language (SSL) Play Dates:  Learning Spanish Through Play This is a group designed especially for native English speaking parents, but for also bilingual English/Spanish speaking parents, who want their children to learn to speak the Spanish language. As a monolingual mommy of a 4-year old, it has been difficult for me to find reasonably priced Spanish tutors. Most of the dual language immersion programs (DLIP) for preschool are private and cost an arm and a leg. Until my …

This group is for all parents of young children who are interested in nurturing an early learning of the Spanish language in their children. "Early research suggested that learning two languages in early childhood is detrimental to a child's cognitive abilities. This was due to the idea that the two languages were learned independently and the knowledge of learning one did not transfer into the other". I am a working mom of a adventurous 4 year old, and have tried to join other mommy groups, but …

Welcome!! We are a group of parents who are enjoying parenthood for the first time or second time. We hope to find moms and or dads who want to share the joys of parenthood with us. This playgroup is for but not limited to babies, toddlers, preschoolers and their parents. We also speak Spanish so if you don't mind or would love to also learn our Spanish language please join us. Like most, we want the best for our kids and would like to find like minded people. We like wearing our babies, beli …

Cesi a Slovaci v LA okoli, at uz jste z Prahy ci Podoli, konecne potkat se muzem, at prijdete sami, ci zena s muzem (ci muz s muzem ci zena s zenou - meze se nekladou :)) vsichni jste vitani, vsichni jste pozvani, pokecat, zazpivat, neco snist ci pit, proste setkat se a dobre se mit! :) Tesime se na vas! organizatori LA Czech/Slovak meetup group! and for our English speaking friends: Czechs, Slovaks, and Friends, come, with full or empty hands, chat, sing, have some …

  In this group we learn and practice our Hindi. We have fun doing it and meet good people! We are friendly and informal, and we speak some English too. If you are advanced or fluent in Hindi language you are welcome, just be patient with us who are beginners/intermediate. Perhaps you can give us some tips and corrections. Our meetings are about half desis and half people from all over the globe wanting to learn Hindi! Some meetings will be in the evening, some in weekend day, some in we …

Our group page has moved to: http://www.facebook.com/California.Christian.Romanians   You'll wonder what this group is all about, and that's a good place to start. But before I have the time to lay down all about what this group IS and IS NOT, let me just say few things about myself and what I will like to see happening. Why in English? - Because we live in USA and we won’t limit this ministry to Romanian speaking only individuals. There are many younger Romanian generations that don’t speak …

Make new friends, have conversation and fun! In French and in English We have a boat and we will love to share this passion with other people? Almost every saturday evening we have a cocktail party on the yacht Champagne, French food and good company? (don't worry, we stay in the slip!)

Anime Screenings in English dub, with or without subtitles(according to the groups wishes. This group will meet either weekly or twice a week, depending on how many times the club would like to meet.

The Los Angeles Russian American Club offers a friendly environment for Russians to get together with other Russians to hang out for the purpose of conversing and doing .......? (CONTINUED in ENGLISH) http://files.meetup.com/689032/MissionStatementEng.pdf (MISSION STATEMENT IN RUSSIAN) http://files.meetup.com/689032/MissionStatementRu.pdf MOVIES about our club are on the "ABOUT US" page?http://russian.meetup.com/324/about/

… The meetups are fun for networking and friendship and you can language exchange (English-Chinese-other?).  The Members Our members are united by their ability to speak Mandarin Chinese. That gives the rest of us an opportunity to learn about their culture and language. We rejoice in the non-heritage Mandarin speakers and turn a blind-eye to political borders. We have members visiting from different countries who would like to interact via cyberspace with SKYPE (see Message Boards). We have all l …

The Los Angeles EPIC Spanish Group strives to bring LA county Latino-culture lovers together with better & unique ideas in Spanish language learning. (1) In this Meetup you will learn and practice Spanish using Improv games & skills . Unlike boring meetups where you learn to say Hello and what did you have for dinner, with us you will find real and dynamic interchange where you learn to use emotions, expressions and strive to sound like a real Spanish communicator. (2) We also plan to start some …

We are a group of ladies who have a passion for the Italian language. Our group welcomes all levels of Italian profficiency, however, our meetups are designed to progress our understanding of Italian, therefore minimal use of English would be nice! Our goal, as a group, is to exercise our Italian, learn from eachother and have fun!

This group is designed to assist individuals in the development of their public speaking and leadership skills. A special emphasis will be on language evaluation.

We are a group of German speaking parents in Los Angeles who raise their children bilingual. We feel that teaching our children a second language is a great gift, but it is not without challenges. For both, children and parents, it can feel isolating when they are the only ones speaking the language, and moreover, kids want to   speak what is easier for them, which tends to be English. We are here to support each other in our efforts and to create no-cost or low-cost events where we can get …