What you need to know to become a language tutor

Lindie: They pick eat, fish and friend and make a sentence Me: The fish eats my friend

I just started tutoring English a couple months ago, perfect timing! It is absolutely true that we learn so much about language learning by teaching, such a fulfilling experience! 🥰

Great points. I've been teaching in schools for a decade and online for about 2 years. With respect to managing expectations, I think it is important to discuss who you are as a teacher and how that matches your student's needs and preferences. I tend to have a super conversational class and I think it really important that students learn the writing system of a language. One of the languages I teach is Japanese, so a lot of students may not want to learn how to read and write and some students may want to spend more time with grammar. If you can adjust as a teacher or they can adjust as a student, fine, but if not I think it is better to let them find a teacher that is a better fit.

Thank you for this video! One of my biggest dreams is teaching my native languge to someone. I literally explain grammer to my imaginary student out loud when I’m by myself uwu 🌸

Since yesterday, I've been teaching my cousin's boyfriend German and he is teaching me Spanish, as he is from Colombia. We both communicate in English, it's awesome!♥️😅

You really look like an excellent language tutor, attentive to the students' needs and the same time professional😊 I'm not tutoring at present, but it was a very interesting video nonetheless, thank you for sharing!!

I just made up my mind that I want to tutor Japanese this year and you posted this video! I think that's a sign haha I need to get things started :D

This literally couldn't come in better time for me. Thanks so much for the video!

When i language exchange with my foreign friends i usually had conversation in person but since COVID-19happened most of my friends went back to their country ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ

Great video Lindie! I definitely feel like I've learnt a lot about language learning from my experiences tutoring English online too

I recently started tutoring Spanish, thank you for the tips! I hope to improve my tutoring for my tutorees with this advice.

Even better than I expected. I'll probably rewatch this as I would like to teach English some. I have a little experience but not a lot and I think you've got this down really well. If I were learning English or Afrikaans I'd totally book your lesson.

Just what I needed, thanks a lot, Lindie!😍

thank you for making this video!! i’ve been wanting to start tutoring French and maybe English on iTalki, but i’ve been so scared to start. this helps so much!!!

I tutor English (it's actually my job) and I love it!

Thanks for the video :D I started tutoring japanese for begginers (online) this summer and finding a place to start is the hardest part in my opinion! So many people say that they are interested and never call back, or start classes and abandon after a few months... I have a four great students right now that really enjoy my classes and that I enjoy giving class to, but i wish it was easier to find more students, even by word of mouth it's quite complex (people where i live tend to want irl classes but that's out of question with covid)

Thank you Lindie for the video! I just started tutoring English and your ideas are great! 🙏

Your voice is so relaxing! Thank you so much.

Thank you so much Lindie, I will start tutoring some students on English next month and I'm sooo scared because they are children but your tips are really helpful to start planning my classes, I do also agree with you when you say you can learn so much about your languages through tutoring, I have learnt so much not only about my second and third language but also I have learnt a lot of grammar of my native language that is Spanish, something that as a native speaker you tend to take for granted. ❤️ Keep the good work

I was just looking for online platforms to start tutoring Arabic, French and English when this video popped in my recommended section! Glad it did because it was really interesting. Thank you for sharing your tips Lindie <3