Mandarin and Cantonese are technically my “Native” languages, but honestly English is my “real” native language.
I kinda wanna go on those sites and like talk to Mandarin/Cantonese speakers, since I know English at a native level, I’m sure there’s gonna be a lot of people that wanna talk to me to practice English… its a also good way for me to practice my Cantonese or Mandarin that I haven’t had a chance to speak for a long tine.
Problem is, I have social anxiety… also privacy issues, I’m worried my voice could get cloned or something, and I kinda don’t wanna expose my face online for video chats…
So… so you think the privacy risk is worth getting to re-connecting with my people?
If the privacy concern is a geographical one, are there other countries that speak those dialects, or maybe even immigrant communities in a given country? If so, maybe you could look for people from those places instead.
And about anxiety more broadly, usually talking to people helps loosen the person gradually, if that’s your issue, so maybe worth a try? Had heard even that language learning kicks off when the person is no longer afraid of making mistakes when trying to learn or use what he/she learned, so another reason for me to recommend.
And as MacNCheezus said, maybe start by text chat? Been doing that this past year for Spanish, which I had ignored a lot in years prior and had grown rusty as consequence, and speaking to someone fluent in it helped me a bunch even on speech.