December 19, 2009 - Chicago-based LingoPass! LLC today announced the launch of its new Chicago-based Language Exchange Group on MeetUp.com. The group aims to bring together many of language speakers already on MeetUp.com who participate in regular monthly language group meetings held around the city.

According to Chris Titus, founder of LingoPass!, "we are providing a productive forum for language groups on MeetUp.com to meet in-between their regular in-person group meetings. In order to join our Free Language Lessons group, members must add a discussion in their native or target language. Completing the online discussion form takes ten minutes, provides a standardized framework for each meeting, and gives you access to all discussions in all languages for one week. Members simply find a topic to discuss (a short article/video), identify the difficult words, and create some questions to keep the conversation flowing. In short, everyone contributes to the group's progress."

Members are encouraged to add discussions in both the language they are learning and their native language. According to Titus, "the extra effort and critical thought required to create discussions in your target language increases your ability to acquire and retain that new language." If you don't see your language, please request it be added.

Membership to LingoPass! is free and provides members with access to a free audio/visual chat room, language partners, and various other resources. The Chicago Language Exchange group is recruiting native and non-native speakers of many languages around the Chicago area, including Arabic, Chinese, Czech, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish.

Monthly meetings will help familiarize new members with navigating the website and adding discussions. Please bring a laptop and headset to meetings. Organizers of other language groups are encouraged to attend and incorporate the LingoPass! Free Lessons program into their groups. Please contact Chris Titus for further information.

To join the MeetUp.com Group - Click Here. To join the LingoPass! Free Lessons program - Click Here. To join LingoPass! on Facebook - Click Here.

About LingoPass!

LingoPass! is a business-oriented language exchange community offering professionals the ability to learn and exchange languages. In addition, LingoPass! offers online group business English conversation classes with a native-speaking executive in the United States.

Contact:

Chris Titus admin@lingopass.com LingoPass! LLC http://www.lingopass.com