{"id":486,"date":"2012-02-13T11:24:32","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T16:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/?p=486"},"modified":"2013-11-13T11:30:44","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T16:30:44","slug":"language-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/2012\/02\/13\/language-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"Language Exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning and Intermediate Russian students practiced their Russian over Skype with native speakers during their first language exchange of the semester.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Skype lesson was very interesting &#8211; it was strange at first to converse with a native Russian speaker, but I enjoyed getting to know someone from the other side of the world<\/em>. &#8211;\u00a0 Brad Seltzer &#8217;15<\/p>\n<p><em>It was a different but interesting experience. A good way to practice your Russian!<\/em> &#8211; Nick Formus &#8217;15<\/p>\n<p><em>The Skype talk with Russian speakers was a great experience. I felt like it gave me a better understanding of what I already knew and what I had to practice more, and it was exciting to discover similarities with our partners. <\/em>-Caroline Elkin &#8217;15<\/p>\n<p><em>It was very satisfying to put what I learned to use and communicate with <\/em><em>someone in another language.<\/em> -Alex Delp &#8217;15<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/files\/2013\/11\/DSC05656.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-487\" alt=\"DSC05656\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/files\/2013\/11\/DSC05656-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/files\/2013\/11\/DSC05657.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-488\" alt=\"DSC05657\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/files\/2013\/11\/DSC05657-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/files\/2013\/11\/DSC05658.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-489\" alt=\"DSC05658\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/files\/2013\/11\/DSC05658-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/files\/2013\/11\/DSC05660.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-490\" alt=\"DSC05660\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/files\/2013\/11\/DSC05660-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/files\/2013\/11\/DSC05661.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-491\" alt=\"DSC05661\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/files\/2013\/11\/DSC05661-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/files\/2013\/11\/DSC05663.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-492\" alt=\"DSC05663\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/files\/2013\/11\/DSC05663-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/files\/2013\/11\/DSC05665.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-493\" alt=\"DSC05665\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/files\/2013\/11\/DSC05665-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/files\/2013\/11\/DSC05666.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-494\" alt=\"DSC05666\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/files\/2013\/11\/DSC05666-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning and Intermediate Russian students practiced their Russian over Skype with native speakers during their first language exchange of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1858,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1877,14953],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-russian","tag-skype","first-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1858"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}