Once you have been assigned a language partner, you must contact him/her and decide when, how often and where to meet, and also you must mutually agree how to arrange your conversation exchange schedule in the two languages. The time of conversation between the two partners should be shared equally between the two languages, so if you decide that your meetings will last for an hour, speak one language during the first half hour and the other language during the second half hour.
There are no strict rules, no control of learning aims; a language tandem is based on autonomous learning, and you and your partner may talk about whatever and meet whenever you want. However, we encourage language tandem partners to attend together the different cultural and leisure activities the UPF Language Voluntariate programme organizes throughout the year all over Barcelona and the rest of Catalonia, as an ideal framework for meeting themselves and with other Catalan and foreign students.