It's often said that the majority of game is just normal conversation. But a problem when starting out learning game is that it can be hard find opportunities to practice your conversation skills with women. There are big barriers to entry in your way to even get started practicing. Online dating and cold approach both require a lot of time and effort before you even get the chance to really practice conversation.

Well, I think I've found a great way to overcome this problem. It's the website called conversationexchange.com. It's a website for finding people to learn languages with. There are a lot of other websites and apps like it, but I prefer ConversationExchange because it's completely free, it has a good search functionality (where you can search by language, gender, age and location) and it has a large user base. You might think "well, but I don't want to learn a language". You don't need to either. You will find plenty of women on that website who will be happy to just receive help with learning by talking to you.

Here are some tips to get you started:

  • Put a little bit of effort into your initial message. You will get responses by just spamming people with: "Hi, I can help you with [X language]." But you will get far more responses if you just put a bit more effort into it, and write a message that's interesting or related to what they write in their profile.

  • Don't be a creep. The website is filled with those, and most of the women there have learned to filter them out quickly. Be respectful. Don't ask for pictures of her. Don't insist on doing video chat if she doesn't want to. Don't ask overly sexual or personal questions. You can be a bit flirty eventually, but when you start out, I think it's better to err on the side of being platonic, just to establish some contacts and practice your conversation skills. You can always turn the relationship more romantic later. I met my current girlfriend on the website, and our conversations started out very platonic.

  • Focus on talking about her life and interests. This is the first key to making having interesting conversations easy. People may or may not be interested in your experiences and opinions. But they are definitely interested in their own. So if you can get people to talk about themselves, it will be easy to get them engaged in the conversation. You can read How to Win Friends and Influence People for more techniques on how to make a connection with people (you have probably already heard this 100 times).

  • Be ready to do a bit of actual teaching. Most women there are fine with just sitting and talking. But when you are starting out, doing a bit of actual language teaching can be a good crutch for if you can't find something to talk about. You can read some texts with them and explain difficult words and phrases, teach a language test (IELTS, TOEFL, etc. for English) or take questions from this site and ask them.

Finally, I know some of you might think, "but isn't a bit sleazy to use this website meant for language learning for practicing game". I don't think it is. If a woman there accepts your help with a language, and you ask for nothing in return, they know that they are trading their company for your help. Most women there a fine with that trade, as long as you are not being creepy about it. Most single women on the website wouldn't even be against finding their next partner through it, if you can manage to seduce them.

Good luck.