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Tandem Training

The Successful Language Exchange

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Find tandem partners and learn languages together!

A great idea and a wonderful experience, which will enormously improve your language skills.

Alessio will give you insights and practical advice to bootstrap your language practice and guarantee fun and success.

15 years of personal and professional experience, learning six languages and helping thousands of people learning languages, all condensed in a single course.

This course covers all the aspects for language exchange: find a partner, schedule the meeting, decide what to do, ask questions, ask for examples, being corrected, keeping a journal, and much more.

There’s also a whole section about the role of the native speaker, who can also learn to help you better.

  • If you never tried language exchange: You definitely should. You can start when you are still at A1, and it's still useful when you reached C1. It's never to early or too late.
  • If language exchange didn't work for you: This course will change it. Actually 90% of attempts at language exchange fail. This is the very reason why this course has been created: to transform language exchange in a successful experience.

Preview the first 6 (out of over 80) lessons via the curriculum below and enjoy our 30 days money back guarantee.

What is Tandem Training?

Why choose my course?

A Uniquely Efficient & likeable Approach

You won’t find this kind of teaching anywhere else. Michael’s delivery of knowledge is one of a kind.

Your Independence Matters to Us

The aim of a good teacher must be that her student becomes independent from her as soon as possible. I will provide you with all necessary tools and strategies to continue your learning savely on your own.

We care about your Experience

The whole team of sG is deeply invested in you enjoying your German learning experience. We know what it feels like to learn a new language.

No Bullshit

You don’t need to know every single grammar rule or to understand every single word. I work by the 80/20 rule. Look it up if you haven’t heard about it yet or just join sG and experience it first hand.

What my students are saying

Learning German with SmarterGerman was one of my best investments. There is a lot of interaction, humor, and structure in the classes. Thank you very much, Michael, for creating such an engaging course that helps me improve my German step by step in a very systematic and comprehensive manner. A clear recommendation to any German learner.

Andresa Lêdo Marques

Student

I've been doing this course for about 6 months now. I'm taking it slow as I don't always have a great deal of time but I am finding it to be excellent. The way things are broken up and described really are wonderful, and the courses approach to how people actually digest information and what it takes to actually learn and understand a language really sits well with me.

Duncan Alastair Brown

Student

At 25% progress I can already slowly pick up the signs and guess the meaning of texts - without making any extra effort. The methodology seems to enable learning by osmosis. Michael is quick to respond to questions and ensures we are on track. This is a course for you if you have a clear goal or if you just want to enjoy a stress free way of learning German.

Sherry Hsu

Student
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Frequently asked questions

As there are no live classes included, it starts whenever you are ready and ends either when you have achieved your goal or when your access ends.

If you have purchased this course, I guarantee you access to it for 24 months. But I won’t unenroll you from it unless I’m forced to do so for whatever reason. So you’ll theoretically have access to it until you or I or my company dies. Whatever happens first. But that’s not guaranteed! If you got this course for free, you have no access guarantee whatsoever.

Nope, unless you want to subscribe to one of my paid Support Memberships (see here), then you are welcome to shoot away with any question you might have.

No. You need an active internet connection.

Yes, of course. The mobile version of the course is beautiful.

Alessio Bona

Your Instructor

Alessio is a polyglot who helps students and professionals to conquer and master the German language.

He learned German himself, more than a decade ago, studied in German universities and currently lives in Berlin.

As language coach he focuses on two things above all: first, to empower his students, giving them the tool to understand and control the language they are learning.

Second: to find and develop methods which aren’t only effective, but also fun and enjoyable.

In his Grammar course he opens up the German language and shows you how it works and how you can own it.

It’s a must for every committed student.

Get access to this course for 24 months*

*I guarantee you access to this course for 24 months but I’ll never unenroll you from this course. After your purchase you can use it as long as SmarterGerman is up and running. All prices are incl. VAT.

Your purchase supports my Free German For All project. Thank you. And of course you have a 30 days money back guarantee. If you don’t like this course and realize that within the first month after your purchase, I’ll refund you your money. No questions asked. There’s never any risk when working with me.

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  • Welcome! (3:49)
  • Structure of the course
  • When to start? Which level should you have?
Part I — How to Structure the Meetings
  • 1. My tandem partner
  • 2. Structure vs. spontaneity
  • 3. How to alternate languages?
  • 4. Which activities should we do?
  • 5. Duration of the meeting
  • 6. Frequency of the meetings
  • 7. Micro-exchanges
  • 0. Introduction
  • 1. Conversation
  • 1b. Conversation topics to add / draft
  • 2. Google Translate
  • 3. Reading
  • 4. TED Talk
  • 5. Theater: Preaching for Two
  • 6. Game: Two Truths, One Lie
  • 7. Game: Twenty Questions
  • 8. Game: Taboo
  • 9. Reflecting on language & learning
  • 1. How to start
  • 2. Find a tandem partner (online)
  • 3. Where to meet (online)
  • 4. Find a tandem partner (in real life)
  • 5. Where to meet (in real life)
  • 6. How to end it
Part II — For the Student
  • 0. To be a learner isn’t easy
  • 1. Am I that bad?
  • 2. Please correct me!
  • 3. Feeling indebted
  • 0. She’s no teacher
  • 1. Correction
  • 2. Example
  • 3. Shadowing: crash course
  • 0. About asking questions
  • 1. “How would you say it?”
  • 2. “What does this mean?”
  • 3. “Can you write it down, please?”
  • 4. “Other examples?”
  • 5. Single words are useless
  • 1. It’s not just the meeting
  • 2. Before
  • 3. After
  • Schedule of activities by level to add / draft
  • Why to keep a journal draft
  • Practice journal for learners
  • Journal templates (tablet & print)
Part III — For Native Speakers
  • 0. To be a native isn’t easy
  • 1. Grammar
  • 2. Authority & responsibility
  • 3. Motives & reward
  • 4. Consistency
  • 0. You can speak better
  • 1. Pronunciation
  • 2. Speed
  • 3. Language style
  • Practice your speaking with languagegym
  • 0. About corrections draft
  • 1. How and what to correct?
  • 2. Fix · Replace · Extend
  • 3. Quantity & frequency
  • Practice journal for natives
  • My last advice
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