Don't know about the exchange ppl, but I do know a couple, the guy was the girl's tutor before....

i guess people won't expect much about the relationship. things should be happening naturally. no matter it happens or not, at least we can learn something useful. isn't it good?

Been there, done that. Some use the pretense of language exchange to try and obtain something else, but in real language exchange relationships this 'romance' might develop also.

hehe, i just registered in this web for language exchange partner. I'M in Beijing and Mandarin native-speaker. I'm looking forward to a English native-speaker partner. My skype is caicaibeijing.

my bad.

solly

打倒 the exchange of bodily fluids

what do you mean "language exchange partners"?

like a Chinese teaches a Yank Chinese and the Yank teaches the Chinese English in return?

I am not a good teacher...actually I find Chinese hard to learn myself...

My Boyfriend only knows "NI HAO" and "Huai Dan"...Kind of funny when he says them....Lol!

I used to have a crush on my accounting teacher when I was in my senior school...Lately, when I met him again, he looked quite ugly....

I guess people's taste changes over the years...

I can't speak for every foreigner out there, nor speaking from a guy point of view, but from what I've noticed is that due to the fact that local Chinese are more conservative and practical, most of the time they tend to think more and take things more personal.

For example, I used to work under my mom in the same company, she was the high manager and I was only a graphic designer. I talked to a local Chinese friend of mine about some of the friends that I've made within the company, how they were nice and I had fun talking to them...etc. The first response I got from this Chinese friend was "Are they only nice to you because you are the daughter of the high manager?"

.....I honestly didn't even think that much And when I told the same thing to my expat friends, they said "That's great! Bring them next time and we can hang out!"

This is just a personal opinion and experience of mine, and like you said most foreigners are more open, energetic, and humourous in a non-conservative way, though some may seem to want more (no-string attached sex), but not every foreigner you see are like the boys and girls in "Girls gone wild" video.

(Really depends on where you met this language exhange partner too, but maybe I'm just too naive.)