[akavel]

Also, regarding English, there's some chance you could find people learning your native language who'd love to have a conversation with a native-speaker; in my city we have such weekly meetings organized in some café. Similarly, we do also have some websites where people are offering "help in exchange for help", you might again find someone wanting to practice your language in exchange for e.g. teaching/talking with you in English; or as you you're firstly into relations at all, you could just find someone you could help in something, and you can also "hide" it behind a request that he/she helps you in something else (again, could be just learning English).