conversation partner
Someone you're addressing
A conversation partner is someone you talk with regularly, especially for language practice or intellectual exchange.
The term often appears in educational contexts where learners pair with native speakers: My conversation partner helps me practice Japanese.
It can also describe any person engaged in sustained dialogue: She was a lively conversation partner at dinner.
- dialogueSpoken exchange between parties
- listenerOne who attends aurally
- speakerOne who talks
- native speakerOne who grew up speaking it
- language exchangeMutual foreign tongue practice
good listener · chat · small talk · coffee chat · confidant · heart to heart · companion · kindred spirit · exchange · back and forth · rapport · banter · penpal · correspondent · discussant · collaborator · friend · debate
- partnersassociates, collaborators, colleagues, co-workers, coworkers
- language learningvocabulary lists, lessons, acquisition, basic vocabulary, grammar books
- language learnersbeginner, beginners, intermediate, advanced learner, advanced learners
- Language TeachersESL teacher, Spanish teacher, French teacher, grammar teacher, bilingual teacher
- language immersiontotal immersion, immersion school, submersion, bilingual education, bilingual school
- multilingualspolyglot, bilingual, trilingual, quadrilingual, fluent speaker
conversation partnerlecturer
One who teaches formally
speechifier · empty room · speechmaker · orator · bystander
conversation partnerstonewaller
One who refuses response
the silent treatment · non-responder · adversary · antagonist · stranger
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