e-Tandem Partnerships
Our e-Tandem partnerships allow LRC members to connect and engage with native students of their target language in our partner institutions around the world.
e-Tandem Partnerships
These opportunities are important to:
- deepen our members’ language learning journeys
- promote Newcastle University as a globally inclusive institution
- encourage a member community of interculturally informed global citizens. This takes place through virtual mobility and peer assisted learning
The activity consists of weekly online audio-video exchanges with a partner, lasting around one hour. Participants can have equal time:
- practising their target language
- helping their partner practise theirs
We provide conversation starter guides in each language for participants. They are available to support the pairings through every stage.
French
- Université de Lorraine (Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France)
- Université de Strasbourg (Strasbourg, Bas Rhin, France)
- Université de Limoges (Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France)
- Université de Nantes (Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, France)
German
- Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)
- Universität Duisberg-Essen (Duisberg and Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)
- Heinrich-Heine-Universität (Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)
Spanish
- Universitat autonoma de Barcelona (Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalonia, Spain)
- Universitat Jaume I (Castelló de la Plana, Valencia, Spain)
- Escuela Oficial de Idiomas de Gandia (Gandia, Valencia, Spain)
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico City, Mexico)
Catalan
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
Italian
- Università degli Studi di Firenze (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
Japanese
- グローバル教育センターGlobal Education Center, Hosei University (Tokyo, Kantō, Honshu, Japan)
- 広島修道大学, Hiroshima Shudo University (Hiroshima, Japan)
- 南山大学, Nanzan University (Nagoya, Japan)
Portuguese
- Centro de Línguas da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
Why join?
e-Tandem exchange gives participants the:
- ability to access the international experience wherever they are
- opportunity to provide a richer, more meaningful learning experience
It enables participants to develop essential employability skills such as:
- intercultural competence
- critical digital literacy
- problem-solving
- teamwork
- communication
- global awareness
Many of our participants have gone on to form great friendships with their partners. They carry on with their exchanges beyond their studies and time at Newcastle University.