Teletandem is not...
... a private lesson of foreign language
... just chatting with a foreign friend
- Teletandem sessions should occur regularly and independently of the partners' wish to meet in that specific moment. Just as in school lessons.
... just chatting with a foreign friend
- Teletandem partners must develop the ability to pay attention to two levels of conversation at the same time - the content level (what is said) and the form level (how it is said). Nobody does it in ordinary chatting.
- The success of a Teletandem experience cannot be evaluated merely by the establishment of a nice relationship with your partner, but also by the achievement of predetermined linguistic and cultural objectives jointly settled by the partners. (Helmut Brammerts)
