Sometimes you can just create characters as they occur to you, at other times it is good to create characters of people you see or meet.

有时候，你可以根据一些发生在你身边的事情来创造角色，有时候，根据你遇见的人或者事来创造角色也不错。

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You can also read advertisements in newspapers and your local library to see if people meet up interested in speaking the language you want to.

你也可以通过报纸上的广告或者当地图书馆来寻找有兴趣一起说外语的人。

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Then you can search people when you meet them and see the real dirt about them, instead of reading a profile on Match.com.

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