The Madrid intercambio week: a free language exchange every night

Madrid runs on intercambios — free, bar-based language exchanges where locals practising English and newcomers practising Spanish end up sharing a table, a game and a caña. We scanned the web and the city's own listings and mapped the week, so you can find one on almost any night. Every entry links back to its original source; check it before you go, because times and venues drift.

Each is now a live listing here — you'll see them on the Language section, the calendar and the daily brief, and the mapped ones show up on the map.

The week, night by night

Tuesday

Se Habla Español intercambio — 21:00, El Estudio, La Latina (La Latina). Servando group. Beer from €2 ★★★★★ · LAE Madrid
Cañas y Conversación — 20:00, Carmencita Bar, near Noviciado metro (Malasaña). Carmencita Bar. Bellinis €1 ★★★★☆ · LAE Madrid
AFTERWORK English Club — 20:00, The Irish Rover, Avda. de Brasil 7 (near Bernabéu) (Chamartín). The Irish Rover. Free. ★★★★☆ · esMadrid (official tourism)

Wednesday

Tandem Madrid @ Lola09 — 20:00, Lola09, Chueca (Chueca). Tandem Madrid. Free. ★★★★☆ · esMadrid (official tourism)
Meet & Speak intercambio — 21:00, Calle 365, Calle Echegaray 18 (Huertas / Las Letras). Meet & Speak. Free. ★★★★☆ · LAE Madrid
El Loco Bar intercambio — 20:00, El Loco Bar, Plaza de Pedro Zerolo 9 (Chueca). Meetup — Intercambio de Idioma en Madrid. Free. ★★★★☆ · Meetup

Thursday

Language Exchange Madrid (LEM) — 20:00, La Fontana de Oro, Calle Victoria 1 (Sol) (Sol / Centro). Language Exchange Madrid / International Conversation & Language Exchange. Free. ★★★★★ · esMadrid + Fluoverse
Beer Station Thursday intercambio — 20:00, Beer Station, Callao / Santo Domingo (Sol / Centro). Beer Station. Free. ★★★★☆ · Fluoverse

Friday

Friday International Meeting & Language Exchange — 20:00, Central Madrid (venue varies — see ticket) (Sol / Centro). Eventbrite organiser. Free. ★★★★☆ · Eventbrite

Sunday

MadridBabel Sunday intercambio — 19:00, Plaza San Martín / Canalla Irish bar (Sol / Centro). MadridBabel. Free. ★★★★★ · LAE Madrid + esMadrid
Beer Station Sunday intercambio — 19:30, Beer Station, Centro (Sol / Centro). Beer Station. Free. ★★★★☆ · Fluoverse

Monday & Saturday

These two nights are quieter for fixed bar exchanges. The gap is filled by the near-daily groups — MADlife Madrid, Madrid Expats (2,500+ members) and MadridBabel — plus one-off Eventbrite meets. Watch the calendar as scanned events land.

How we scored popularity

The star ratings are our own editorial estimate, blending publicly reported attendance (Language Exchange Madrid alone draws ~500–600 people a month), how long a group has been running (Meet & Speak since 2014), and how consistently a venue appears across independent guides and the city's official tourism listing. They are not scraped Google review scores — we would rather be honest about that than invent five stars.

Sources

Compiled 2026-08-22. Found a change or a missing intercambio? Every listing has a source link — and if you run one, add it.