Please​ read my profile before you contact me, that's the reason why I wrote it ;-). Thank you.


My name is Charlotte and I would like to meet interesting people for language exchange. If you are interested in learning German, I would love to help you with that.
It would be great to find penpals with similar interests and a good sense of humour.

I won't answer 'How r u'- and 'Hi there' messages or friend requests without knowing each other at all - call me old-fashione​d ;-).
People from Africa are always welcome when OVER 40 YEARS and NOT asking for MONEY or MARRIAGE.

ENGLISH and SPANISH are Intermediate​ and I would like to be able to do an Upper Intermediate​ exam on them. I read, translate and understand spoken FRENCH without bigger problems but, thanks to my terrifying teacher, I am not able to speak or write it properly - so I would be very thankful for any kind of help here.
I don't speak or write DUTCH, ITALIAN, ESPERANTO and PORTUGUESE at all and don't have the time to learn that, but I can read and understand these languages more or less well and would like to improve that.
Ten years ago I had started with SANSKRIT, three years ago with MODERN GREEK.. but I had been studying them for a short while only.. now I have to admit, that I am still interested in those languages, driven by the wish to be able to read them properly one day - so the scripts are what I would like to get to know better.. but have no idea how to begin...
These are many languages and I won't be able to do them all, so I'm just waiting for nice people to start with the first one...

Sciences, teaching, internet technology, modern art from Spain and Latin America, hiking, jogging, gardening, cooking, learning more about foreign cultures, history and politics..

Alternative,​ Jazz, R&B.. well..  it depends on the situation.. even Punk (when I need a kick for cleaning the flat), violin concerts and gospel.

Have to think about that..

I don't have a TV

Sooo many.. but tending more towards poetry (Rilke, Morgenstern,​ Goethe), science fiction, Terry Pratchett  and some special books like: Phaedrus by Plato or a really wise one on chaos theory, written by Fritz Cramer in a very creative way by mixing scientific facts with poetry.. then.. novels by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Isabel Allende in Spanish..

"Surely​ the Jorullo is the greatest work monks have ever created, and if one is not impressed by the gullibility of a people who claim they can constantly observe how the eternal laws of nature have been abolished, one has to be amazed by the eagerness of this religious caste to do everything in their power in order to base their world on fear."(​16)
(16) "Sicher​lich ist der Jorullo das größte Werk, das Mönche je hervorgebrac​ht haben, und wenn man sich nicht über die Leichtgläubi​gkeit des Volkes wundern will, das jeden Augenblick die ewigen Gesetze der Natur aufgehoben sieht, muss man sich über den Eifer dieser religiösen Kaste wundern, die [...] aus allem Nutzen für sich gezogen hat, um ihr Reich auf der Furcht zu gründen."​ Reise T. II: Übersetzung,​ op. cit., p. 276.
http://www.​uni-potsdam.​de/u/romanis​tik/humboldt​/hin/leitner​.htm on (Alexander von Humboldt in México)

Noch sind wir zwar keine gefährdete Art, aber es ist nicht so, dass wir nicht oft genug versucht hätten, eine zu werden.
We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying.
Todavia no somos una especie en extincion, pero no es porque no lo hayamos intentado. (Traducción:​ pitopereza)

(Douglas Adams)