exchange ratio

[kodorakun]

Howdy,

I was thinking about this service a bit and it occurred to me that one
major problem I've noticed in the past with real life language
exchange partners is that there's often an imbalance in what language
is spoken. Personally, my favorite language partner is one that
doesn't care at all about learning MY native language, someone that
really just wants to speak. Of course, this is a bit too ideal and
maybe not that easy to find.

So my thought for a feature is possibly something like an "exchange
ratio" -- you enter conversations vouching (honor principle) to speak
only (as much as possible) one language (maybe your native, maybe your
L2). That conversation's time counts as "teaching" credit or
"learning" credit. Form a ratio. You can opt whether you want to speak
as "free" (no category), "teaching" (you speak your native language),
or "learning" (you speak L2).

I guess the thought then would be to assign partners based on their
interest and form a queue based on ratio -- if someone has a high
"teaching" number but low "learning" number and then wants to enter an
L2 convo, they get some sort of priority.

Just my 2 cents -- for a future, more populated site.

K.

[Adam Duston]

Whoa, this is a seriously good idea. Thanks very much for the thought!
I am totally going to do this as soon as the site gains some momentum.

I'm trying to finish adding the scheduling system today, should make
the site considerably more populated. Thanks very much for trying out
the service!

Adam

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