Tandem is a free platform with a simple premise: there is probably someone out there who is learning your native language, and whose native language you want to learn. So they put you in touch with them.
When you sign up, Tandem will review your application to make sure their platform remains safe and that the person you get matched with is also a keen language learner.
Pros: Great for listening skills Great for speaking You can make friends
Cons: Lack of structure
How much does Tandem cost?
Tandem's price depends on how you use it .
Tandem device availability
Tandem is available on
Android, iPad, iPhone, and Web.
What methods does Tandem use?
Tandem uses Tandem partners.
How many languages are on Tandem?
There are 309 languages on Tandem.
Which languages are on Tandem?
Languages you can learn with Tandem: Abkhaz, Acholi, Adyghe, Afar, Afrikaans, Ainu, Akan, Albanian, American Sign Language, Amharic, Ancient Greek, Antillean Creole, Apachean, Arabic, Armenian, Aromanian, Assamese, Asturian, Auslan, Australian Sign Language, Austrian Sign Language, Avar, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Balinese, Balochi, Bambara, Bashkir, Basque, Bavarian, Belarusian, Bemba, Bengali, Berber, Bhojpuri, Bihari, Bislama, Bosnian, Brazilian Sign Language, Breton, British Sign Language, Bulgarian, Burmese, Cantonese, Cape Verdean Creole, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chavacano, Chechen, Cherokee, Chewa, Chhattisgarhi, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Chinese Sign Language, Chittagonian, Choctaw, Chuvash, Cornish, Corsican, Cree, Crimean Tatar, Croatian, Czech, Dakhini, Danish, Dargwa, Dhivehi, Dhundari, Dothraki, Dutch, Dutch Sign Language, Dzongkha, East Circassian, Emoji, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Ewe, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, French, French Sign Language, Friulian, Fula, Ga, Galician, Ganda, Georgian, German, German Sign Language, Greek, Greenlandic, Guarani, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hani, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Herero, Hiligaynon, Hindi, Hiri Motu, Hmong, Hokkien, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, Igbo, Ilocano, Ilonggo, Indo-Pakistani Sign Language, Indonesian, Ingush, Interlingua, International Sign Language, Interslavic, Inuktitut, Irish, Italian, Italian Sign Language, Jamaican Patois, Japanese, Japanese Sign Language, Javanese, Kabardian, Kalmyk, Kannada, Kanuri, Karelian, Kashmiri, Kashubian, Kazakh, Khmer, Kikuyu, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Klingon, Komi, Kongo, Konkani, Korean, Korean Sign Language, Krio, Kumyk, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Kurdish (Pehlewani), Kurdish (Sorani), Kyrgyz, Ladino, Lak, Lanna, Lao, Latin, Latvian, Laz, Lezgian, Ligurian, Lingala, Lingua Franca Nova, Lithuanian, Lombard, Low German, Lozi, Luba-Kasai, Luo, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Madurese, Magahi, Maithili, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Malaysian Sign Language, Maldivian, Maltese, Mandalorian, Maori, Mapuche, Marathi, Marshallese, Mauritian Creole, Maya, Meitei, Mexican Sign Language, Minangkabau, Mingrelian, Mon, Mongolian, Montenegrin, Mossi, Nahuatl, Navajo, Neapolitan, Nepali, Nkore, North Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Norwegian, Nuosu, Nyanja, Occitan, Odia, Ojibwe, Okinawan, Oromo, Ossetian, Ovambo, Papiamento, Pashto, Pennsylvania German, Persian, Polish, Polish Sign Language, Portuguese, Potawatomi, Punjabi, Quechua, Quenya, Rajasthani, Réunion Creole, Rohingya, Romani, Romanian, Romansh, Russian, Russian Sign Language, Rusyn, Sami, Samoan, Saṁskṛtam, Sango, Sanskrit, Santali, Saraiki, Sardinian, Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Seychellois Creole, Shanghainese, Shona, Sicilian, Sindarin, Sindhi, Sinhala, Sioux, Slovak, Slovene, Somali, South Ndebele, Southern Sotho, Spanish, Spanish Sign Language, Sranan Tongo, Sundanese, Swahili, Swazi, Swedish, Swiss German, Sylheti, Syriac, Tabasaran, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tajik, Talysh, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Tetum, Thai, Tigrinya, Tok Pisin, Toki Pona, Tonga, Tsonga, Tswana, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkish Sign Language, Turkmen, Udmurt, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uyghur, Uzbek, Valyrian, Venda, Venetian, Vietnamese, Walloon, Welsh, West Circassian, Western Frisian, Wolof, Xhosa, Yakut, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zaza, Zhuang, or Zulu.