This video is 3 years old now. You should probably raise every price I say up 3 or 4 dollars. I think $15 is a great place to start your lessons at now. The ceiling seems to be around $30.
As an italki teacher as well, I would say that the key is not to want to get more students but to retain them. Of course, you need to have students and create a base but don't focus on always getting NEW STUDENTS, focus on RETAINING YOUR ALREADY-GOOD-ENOUGH student base.
10:29 "Students dont want to book a lesson with you if you have taught zero lessons because thats not impressive". Err.. doesn't everyone start on zero at some point?
@@MiguelJRiley It doesn't matter. It's quite obvious that a high rate stands for an experienced teacher. If you start too low you can't push the price at once because that would look really unprofessional and a low price doesn't pay off an experienced teacher. If you have zero lessons it's because you are new on the website not because you have zero experience.
Thank you, Joan, for making this wonderful video. I'm working on my profile to be a Hindi teacher and watching your video gave me some really nice tips to avoid the mistakes that new teachers make.
Kaise ho App!? I'm working to become an English teacher. I'm not sure where I will teach yet. But I'm also learning Hindi. You can see my Hindi videos ;) How is your Hindi teaching going? Are you still teaching?
Tips and things important to me. I'm looking to gain a certain accent, so I'm looking for a teacher with a good accent I want to learn. I need to hear all of the syllables and sounds clearly, so I'm looking for a teacher with a good microphone and minimal background noise. A teacher with a good microphone is really, really important to me. I like a teacher who's pitch is in a medium range - not squeaky high and not too low. I like a teacher who can speak at a good volume throughout all sentences without trailing off at the end of words or a sentence. I like a teacher whose lips I can see when they talk, so while a mustache is fine for a male, it must be trimmed to see the lips. I like a teacher who speaks at a moderate steady speed relative to a natural native speed, perhaps slightly slower. I'm not a confident speaker, so I'm looking for a teacher who naturally speaks clear and slower so I don't feel intimidated. I speak at an advanced beginner level, so I do have a pretty good idea what I'm looking for. Listening to you speak, you seem to have all those traits, perhaps that's one reason you are becoming popular. These are things I would want for English lessons or from any other language. I like your video.
Thanky you for sahring this and by the way you have the gift of speaking your voice is so relaxing in the ears, your accent is great and you really have a beautiful speaking voice. Thanks again Im gonna make my video too for my profile in itlaki.
Very well done video. Succinct, pertinent and interesting all with a slight hint of fun. Looking forward to future programs! The English Teaching Professor.
You say:'Nobody want to book a lesson with someone who has taught zero lessons'. I understand your point, but everybody starts with zero, and you have to work toward the first lesson, then the next one, etc. I would like to hear how to get your first students when you are a total beginner.
Thank you, Joan, I enjoyed your video. You gave a lot of great tips. I'm a bit nervous, however, I know I can teach english online. I currently homeschool our 2 children.
Change your schedule depends on your target students, could be based on the language you teach or the countries/continents that you aimed. I sleep at 5am-afternoon because most of my students booked me on 10pm-3am in my timezone.
Thanks for this. I had thought of almost all of these but the one tip in here that I had never thought of was the landmarks of famous cities etc. I live near Sydney but I hadn't thought of showing the Bridge or the Opera House in my video, thanks! P.S. Thanks for actually speaking English properly. There is a teacher from Brisbane Australia who has a video about this and it's SO frustrating because she can't actually speak English (she keeps says "Pro-tential customers"...)
Excellent video Joan. I'm a native Spanish speaker and I hope to become in a Community Tutor soon. Thank you! Some councils about What NOT to do in a class?
I think it helps a bit in the beggining to have someone to help put together a profile...Hard to take pictures of yourself, videos of youself.... Video edit...etc
Hi, Joan!. Thanks for sharing with us part of your experience with that company. I really appreciate it!. I would like to see your video when you applied just for taking as a reference. I am planning to apply .I have not done it yet, because I've just moved from Dom. Rep. to Florida. I am a bilingual teacher with experience in my country. and I really would like to get a job as an English or Spanish teacher.
Thank you, Joan, for such helpful video. I've been considering becoming an ITALKI teacher for quite a while now. I am from Peru, so my native language is Spanish. I am an English teacher with considerable experience. However, I wish I could teach Spanish. The thing is I don't have experience teaching Spanish. Therefore, I am wondering if I can teach Spanish? I really need your advice. Thanks!
This is encouraging. I want to be a community tutor as i wont recieve my credentials for a couple years. but this would be a nice part time gig since i will be moving around a lot and holding a regular job will be difficult.
StarlingofAzerath Applying to be a Community Tutor is a great idea! Working only online certainly made it easy for me to move to a different state recently. Best of luck to you!
Wonderful tips and well done getting to $24/hour - we all know how tough it is to teach English for a decent salary on italki. You do a great job of bringing your personality, interests, and homeland to your intro video.
This video was wonderful with a lot of great tips, I would love Some more information on how to start teaching online when you don’t have a teaching degree
Your video is very good and you are clear about the instructions. You said to be available to teach 8 to 12h a day. Even if you had all your time to Italki 12h is too much. I wonder if I say 6h they will reject me because they may consider insufficent. I´d like to know if you have a tip for someone who has a 15-year-experience, but no hours taught on Italki. Another thing that dragged my attention is the video shooting which is so important for the website and seems that Italki prefers those who shoot a pro video. I´m really very surprised because this is the first website for teachers that has so many written and visual instructions.
This is so true! I just started last week and I did like 3/5 things you said (before watching your video) and I already have 5 students. I teach both Romanian and English too. Btw, do you think it is important to take the Oxford placement test italki is offering?
Congrats! 5 students in your first week means you are off to a great start! I’m not sure about the placement exam. As a native speaker, I never considered it. I feel like it won’t add much credibility to your profile because students already trust that the teachers are all Native or C2 level speakers.
Alexandra - also, your Oxford placement test result does NOT show up on your teaching profile, only your student profile. It's a bit weird... I am a native English speaker and I did it... I don't think it has made any difference.
Hello Joan! Thank you very much for an incredible video. The big questioni is how do I start teaching with zero teaught lessons?? How do i get above 10-20 lessons to have some statistics?? PLease, help.
Put the lower price possible, make a nice video introduction, if you speak more languages, show them, it will be nice for people from these countries or who speaks these languages. Your profile needs to be clean, don't write " well, When I was a young kid, I went to ... School, there I met Jones, my first friend... " The students don't want to listen irrelevant things, but, if you learned a language, tell something like "I learned ... For almost ... Of time and I discovered out some tips to learn faster and improve my accent and pronounciation, and I will show that on my lessons ". That is good for who wants to learn. Make differences between the begginers and advanced on your language, like: if you are begginer we can talk slower and improve your vocabulary, giving to you a good and solid foundation, if you are advanced.... That is it, as I student, I search for the cheapers, and then, I search for who looks cool. But I do that because I know a lot of english, so I don't need some kind of genius teacher to help me, I just need someone to talk, and, the most money saved, more lessons I buy.
Teachers, please present your video profile in the target language. I am currently taking Italki lessons in Spanish and many of the tutors presentations are in English. I need to hear their Spanish accent, not their English.
Hi Joan : I Want to start teaching in ITALKI , I am Spanich native apeaker, but my job is English teacher in my country, I´m not sure about if it better teach Spanish or English, becasue I don´t have any qualification in my native language but I dónt feel that I have the level for ITALKI
Yo no tengo certificado para enseñar español pero trabajo como tutora de español en Italki. Me ayudó mi experiencia enseñando inglés por varios años en mi país, creo yo
A comment about $10 an hour from an American 🇺🇸 language teacher in Taiwan 🇹🇼. When I taught for VIPKID, I was paid well, but the PRC government stopped letting us teach after 9:00 🕘 PM. I then taught for English Ninjas 🥷 for $10 USD/hour until they reduced our wages horrifically and otherwise became goofy. 2 hours a night with nice Taiwanese regular students was really easy money and it really added up!
What type of lessons do you prepare? I myself am an experienced teacher and considering doing this part-time, but I do not want to spend a lot of time preparing lessons. Do you let the students dictate the lessons or do you have stock material that you go to? Thanks for the video!
Thank you for the info/ are you still doing italki/ I want to get started as a tutor/ i already created an account on both the site and skype/ I want it to be practice for when I go teach in Cambodia/
You`re right about the picture part. I used Tom Cruise picture on my profile and what do you know? I immediately gained thousands of new students. They kept asking me `though, where`s Tom? I always tell them, hmmm, he`s just using a toilet, so i am only replacing him for a little while.
Hello. Very useful your video 😊 I want to know if you can change the schedule. Bc I want to do it on vacations but when I start college I won't have the same time available.
Hi Nicole! Yes, you can change your schedule when you want, but remember that your students are taking lessons as a routine so they will probably want some consistency. In general, it's best to keep your weekly schedule pretty standard.
Hi Clare! The website will convert it for you but I think more people will see it in dollars so you might want to use USD for round numbers. I personally like to sell packages for $120, $160... etc and if you set to pounds your packages might be $116 or $157 which is a little weird, but ultimately not important.
I am a native greek speaker but finished secondary school in UK. I have been told that my level of English is fluent and my writting is very advanced, especially since I managed to reach this level within 3 years of being in school here in UK, so do you think I could I apply to become a proper Pro teacher for English and perphaps be a community tutor for Greek, maybe a proffesional teacher for the begginers who wish to learn Greek. To be a teacher you need an equivalent of Proficiency level qualification in Europe but I think the English I learned in school in Uk is far more advanced than that. What do you suggest? Thank you.
How to move higher up in the rankings (aka showing up in the first spots in the list of tutors)? I only have 5 star reviews and have more than 500 lessons but I'm appearing so low in the list and am not getting any new requests because of that, which didn't happen before for some reason :l
Hi Michael! Thanks so much for watching and subscribing. I don't typically use my iPhone to do video lessons because I type vocabulary and example sentences to my students and it's very difficult to do that from a phone. I have used my phone for lessons a few times while on vacation and it just wasn't good enough. I teach from a MacBook Air, but you can teach from any laptop with a webcam. I do use my phone during lessons to check my Chinese or Spanish dictionary when my students don't know a word. :)
Silly question maybe. I am looking at becoming an expat in the future and possibly teaching for extra income. If living abroad, does ITALKI and other companies withhold U.S. income taxes? Income taxes from the country you are teaching from? Thanks in advance.
Heey Joan, your video is very informative, I'm having a small issue and I'm wondering if you could help me please Joan, so I got excepted on italki as an Arabic tutor and then they required me to set up my schedule but there is another section that I have to fill out which is the (Student Profile Information), I honestly don't know what is it about exactly and I don't know what to write there ? thanks in advance Joan
Thanks for watching! I learned Chinese by several methods: self study, italki lessons, ChinesePod episodes, and immersion in China. If you’re going to Hong Kong, you need to learn Cantonese not Mandarin. But if you’re only going for vacation, you can survive with English! I visited Hong Kong before I spoke any Chinese and I had a great time! It’s always useful to learn “thank you” in the country’s language! :)
Hong Kongers speak cantonese mostly, mandarin is their second or third language. If you want to practice your mandarin go to Beijing, Qingdao, Shanghai, Suzhou, Hangzhou, etc.
If I choose Japanese language would it be mean that I only teach japanese o to Japanese student that want to learn any different language like English or tagalog..? by the way I'm a Filipino cetizen and I want to appply as an online teacher in italki..
Very good video, BTW how would students book lessons with me while i just still zero lessons, is there any way to attract them apart from the video and my profile pic?
I recently became a community tutor on there. Are you feeling pressured from students wanting free lessons? I am becoming stressed/agitated by people on there that only want free lessons from me and they become frustrated with me when i tell them i don't offer free lessons. I also feel like people on there get impatient when you don't respond to their private message immediately.
Sometimes I get people asking for free lessons, but I kind of just ignore those messages and reply with "If you'd like to discuss your language learning goals, please book a trial lesson." Make sure you have messages from people seeking language partners turned off in your settings. Good luck!
This video is 3 years old now. You should probably raise every price I say up 3 or 4 dollars. I think $15 is a great place to start your lessons at now. The ceiling seems to be around $30.
I have 65 upcoming I’m not sure if that’s a lot but I always worry if it drops, I’ve been on for 5 years now - I charge 29$ I believe
I just watched this video mam, March 2023, ...
As an italki teacher as well, I would say that the key is not to want to get more students but to retain them. Of course, you need to have students and create a base but don't focus on always getting NEW STUDENTS, focus on RETAINING YOUR ALREADY-GOOD-ENOUGH student base.
I agree with you.
1. Photo
2. Video
3. Price
4. Availability
5. Statistics/reviews
Thank you!
Three years and these tips are still solid. Cheers Joan!
10:29 "Students dont want to book a lesson with you if you have taught zero lessons because thats not impressive". Err.. doesn't everyone start on zero at some point?
Yes, and that's why she says it's important to keep your rate low when you begin.
@@MiguelJRiley It doesn't matter. It's quite obvious that a high rate stands for an experienced teacher. If you start too low you can't push the price at once because that would look really unprofessional and a low price doesn't pay off an experienced teacher. If you have zero lessons it's because you are new on the website not because you have zero experience.
I booked my Dutch teacher when he had 2 lessons before and he's great!
Thank you, Joan, for making this wonderful video. I'm working on my profile to be a Hindi teacher and watching your video gave me some really nice tips to avoid the mistakes that new teachers make.
Kaise ho App!? I'm working to become an English teacher. I'm not sure where I will teach yet. But I'm also learning Hindi. You can see my Hindi videos ;) How is your Hindi teaching going? Are you still teaching?
Thank you! As a community teacher on Italki, it's really difficult finding students
Which language are you teaching?
To give students a discount I set up a seperate course, ie 'long term student discount'
The Tao of David good idea!! I was thinking how i could raise prices without having to raise them for my regulars. Thanks! 😊
This video showed up along the right side of my feed so I watched it. You've got a great camera presence.
Great tips. Italki has been a lifechanging experience.
Tips and things important to me. I'm looking to gain a certain accent, so I'm looking for a teacher with a good accent I want to learn. I need to hear all of the syllables and sounds clearly, so I'm looking for a teacher with a good microphone and minimal background noise. A teacher with a good microphone is really, really important to me. I like a teacher who's pitch is in a medium range - not squeaky high and not too low. I like a teacher who can speak at a good volume throughout all sentences without trailing off at the end of words or a sentence. I like a teacher whose lips I can see when they talk, so while a mustache is fine for a male, it must be trimmed to see the lips. I like a teacher who speaks at a moderate steady speed relative to a natural native speed, perhaps slightly slower. I'm not a confident speaker, so I'm looking for a teacher who naturally speaks clear and slower so I don't feel intimidated. I speak at an advanced beginner level, so I do have a pretty good idea what I'm looking for. Listening to you speak, you seem to have all those traits, perhaps that's one reason you are becoming popular. These are things I would want for English lessons or from any other language. I like your video.
Thanky you for sahring this and by the way you have the gift of speaking your voice is so relaxing in the ears, your accent is great and you really have a beautiful speaking voice. Thanks again Im gonna make my video too for my profile in itlaki.
Thank you teacher for sharing your knowledge.
Very well done video. Succinct, pertinent and interesting all with a slight hint of fun. Looking forward to future programs! The English Teaching Professor.
Very clear and helpful video. Thank you so much for the tips!
You say:'Nobody want to book a lesson with someone who has taught zero lessons'. I understand your point, but everybody starts with zero, and you have to work toward the first lesson, then the next one, etc. I would like to hear how to get your first students when you are a total beginner.
Just started looking into the site. Thank you for the helpful info. I'm still wrapping my head around getting started so this helps out!
Thank you ma'am, for this video tutorial, I am Indonesian .. I enjoy watching how to speak English ma'am, which is very relaxed.
Thank u for your advices Joan!!! By the way, your video is very natural and you are very expressive. It shows that you have artistic training!!
Thank you so much for posting this, Joan! Tremendously helpful as I prepare to make my introductory video.
Thank you, Joan, I enjoyed your video. You gave a lot of great tips. I'm a bit nervous, however, I know I can teach english online. I currently homeschool our 2 children.
Change your schedule depends on your target students, could be based on the language you teach or the countries/continents that you aimed.
I sleep at 5am-afternoon because most of my students booked me on 10pm-3am in my timezone.
Thank you for this video! It really helped I just got accepted as a community teacher! Wish me luck .
Thank for this great simple and clear video.
Thank you!! This clarified questions that I had. Your video was clear and very nice.
Thank you so much! I just found this opportunity to be a tutor. So I am so nervous :)
Thanks for this. I had thought of almost all of these but the one tip in here that I had never thought of was the landmarks of famous cities etc. I live near Sydney but I hadn't thought of showing the Bridge or the Opera House in my video, thanks!
P.S. Thanks for actually speaking English properly. There is a teacher from Brisbane Australia who has a video about this and it's SO frustrating because she can't actually speak English (she keeps says "Pro-tential customers"...)
Thanks a lot, Joan! I'm just getting started as a teacher at Italki.
How's it going so far?
I haven't received any question or requests for classes yet.
Fernando Stagliano , I’m about to apply and would love to hear your experience
Excellent video Joan. I'm a native Spanish speaker and I hope to become in a Community Tutor soon. Thank you! Some councils about What NOT to do in a class?
You are so cute giving us those very good tips.
Amazing tips, thank you very much
What a wonderful video. Thank you for those tips!
Thank you for your tips! :)
This is really good advice! Thank you from a British colleague.
Thank you, very useful!
I think it helps a bit in the beggining to have someone to help put together a profile...Hard to take pictures of yourself, videos of youself.... Video edit...etc
Hi, Joan!. Thanks for sharing with us part of your experience with that company. I really appreciate it!. I would like to see your video when you applied just for taking as a reference. I am planning to apply .I have not done it yet, because I've just moved from Dom. Rep. to Florida. I am a bilingual teacher with experience in my country. and I really would like to get a job as an English or Spanish teacher.
Thank you, Joan, for such helpful video. I've been considering becoming an ITALKI teacher for quite a while now. I am from Peru, so my native language is Spanish. I am an English teacher with considerable experience. However, I wish I could teach Spanish. The thing is I don't have experience teaching Spanish. Therefore, I am wondering if I can teach Spanish? I really need your advice. Thanks!
This is really great information! Thank you, Joan. Really appreciate it :)
This is encouraging. I want to be a community tutor as i wont recieve my credentials for a couple years. but this would be a nice part time gig since i will be moving around a lot and holding a regular job will be difficult.
StarlingofAzerath Applying to be a Community Tutor is a great idea! Working only online certainly made it easy for me to move to a different state recently. Best of luck to you!
thanks for this video. I'm a Nigerian and I wish to teach English and French.Thanks
Wonderful tips and well done getting to $24/hour - we all know how tough it is to teach English for a decent salary on italki. You do a great job of bringing your personality, interests, and homeland to your intro video.
This video was wonderful with a lot of great tips, I would love Some more information on how to start teaching online when you don’t have a teaching degree
Cool video! I really like your ideas! I teach on italki and am trying to improve my video. I will keep your tips in mind!
Hi Joan, this was very helpful! Question, are you a professional teacher or a community tutor?
Your video is very good and you are clear about the instructions. You said to be available to teach 8 to 12h a day. Even if you had all your time to Italki 12h is too much. I wonder if I say 6h they will reject me because they may consider insufficent. I´d like to know if you have a tip for someone who has a 15-year-experience, but no hours taught on Italki. Another thing that dragged my attention is the video shooting which is so important for the website and seems that Italki prefers those who shoot a pro video. I´m really very surprised because this is the first website for teachers that has so many written and visual instructions.
Great information. Thanks much!
Thank you so much for this tips
This is so true! I just started last week and I did like 3/5 things you said (before watching your video) and I already have 5 students. I teach both Romanian and English too. Btw, do you think it is important to take the Oxford placement test italki is offering?
Congrats! 5 students in your first week means you are off to a great start! I’m not sure about the placement exam. As a native speaker, I never considered it. I feel like it won’t add much credibility to your profile because students already trust that the teachers are all Native or C2 level speakers.
Alexandra - also, your Oxford placement test result does NOT show up on your teaching profile, only your student profile. It's a bit weird...
I am a native English speaker and I did it... I don't think it has made any difference.
Clear english for me, good
Hello Joan! Thank you very much for an incredible video. The big questioni is how do I start teaching with zero teaught lessons?? How do i get above 10-20 lessons to have some statistics?? PLease, help.
Lower your price at first built student base and then gradually increase your price
Put the lower price possible, make a nice video introduction, if you speak more languages, show them, it will be nice for people from these countries or who speaks these languages. Your profile needs to be clean, don't write " well, When I was a young kid, I went to ... School, there I met Jones, my first friend... " The students don't want to listen irrelevant things, but, if you learned a language, tell something like "I learned ... For almost ... Of time and I discovered out some tips to learn faster and improve my accent and pronounciation, and I will show that on my lessons ". That is good for who wants to learn. Make differences between the begginers and advanced on your language, like: if you are begginer we can talk slower and improve your vocabulary, giving to you a good and solid foundation, if you are advanced....
That is it, as I student, I search for the cheapers, and then, I search for who looks cool. But I do that because I know a lot of english, so I don't need some kind of genius teacher to help me, I just need someone to talk, and, the most money saved, more lessons I buy.
It's not because you speak Chinese, it's because you live in China (time zone) - that's why your students love you :) Thanks
thankyou this was so helpful!
I am student, First tip is so true
This is the video I needed
thank joan for video i really like it .i m from Morocco and i want to teach english
great advice
Wow that is hwy you are great coz you are a comedian. i love it
Loved your video. I am learning Russian. Do you know Russian? Would love you as a Teacher 👩🏫, My Teacher, 😝
Teachers, please present your video profile in the target language. I am currently taking Italki lessons in Spanish and many of the tutors presentations are in English. I need to hear their Spanish accent, not their English.
Thank you for your video!
Hi Joan : I Want to start teaching in ITALKI , I am Spanich native apeaker, but my job is English teacher in my country, I´m not sure about if it better teach Spanish or English, becasue I don´t have any qualification in my native language but I dónt feel that I have the level for ITALKI
Yo no tengo certificado para enseñar español pero trabajo como tutora de español en Italki. Me ayudó mi experiencia enseñando inglés por varios años en mi país, creo yo
@@zhangziyili gracias! Lo voy intentar , me gustaría dar clases de mi idioma y además ganar dinero extra 😃
A comment about $10 an hour from an American 🇺🇸 language teacher in Taiwan 🇹🇼. When I taught for VIPKID, I was paid well, but the PRC government stopped letting us teach after 9:00 🕘 PM. I then taught for English Ninjas 🥷 for $10 USD/hour until they reduced our wages horrifically and otherwise became goofy. 2 hours a night with nice Taiwanese regular students was really easy money and it really added up!
For the quarentine we dont do that... another tips?
What type of lessons do you prepare? I myself am an experienced teacher and considering doing this part-time, but I do not want to spend a lot of time preparing lessons. Do you let the students dictate the lessons or do you have stock material that you go to? Thanks for the video!
Thanks a lot for your tips! I'd like to join with Italki :D and hope you can share me something about your English lessons! :)
Hello, I didn`t find your video about how to management italki calendar :(
Thank you for the info/ are you still doing italki/ I want to get started as a tutor/ i already created an account on both the site and skype/ I want it to be practice for when I go teach in Cambodia/
You`re right about the picture part. I used Tom Cruise picture on my profile and what do you know? I immediately gained thousands of new students. They kept asking me `though, where`s Tom? I always tell them, hmmm, he`s just using a toilet, so i am only replacing him for a little while.
How do you set up your lesson plans?
Hello. Very useful your video 😊 I want to know if you can change the schedule. Bc I want to do it on vacations but when I start college I won't have the same time available.
Hi Nicole! Yes, you can change your schedule when you want, but remember that your students are taking lessons as a routine so they will probably want some consistency. In general, it's best to keep your weekly schedule pretty standard.
Hi Joan! I am in the UK, so do i set my prices in pounds sterling or convert to American Dollars? Thank you!
Hi Clare! The website will convert it for you but I think more people will see it in dollars so you might want to use USD for round numbers. I personally like to sell packages for $120, $160... etc and if you set to pounds your packages might be $116 or $157 which is a little weird, but ultimately not important.
Thank you for the great video. May I ask, how many hours do you teach a week?
Thank you for your video. You seem that you'd be a fun teacher. Question, as a teacher, does one get paid via paypal? Thanks.
Yep! Paypal is one of the options for withdrawing money from the site
I am a native greek speaker but finished secondary school in UK. I have been told that my level of English is fluent and my writting is very advanced, especially since I managed to reach this level within 3 years of being in school here in UK, so do you think I could I apply to become a proper Pro teacher for English and perphaps be a community tutor for Greek, maybe a proffesional teacher for the begginers who wish to learn Greek. To be a teacher you need an equivalent of Proficiency level qualification in Europe but I think the English I learned in school in Uk is far more advanced than that. What do you suggest? Thank you.
great tips
how many students do you have? do you work fulltime? do you have a teachers certificate?
And what about new teachers? How do they get their first lesson? Or their first 20-30 lessons?
Thank you for your video! Are you continuing to get as many requests for lessons as you were when this video was made?
Really useful vid, thanks
How to move higher up in the rankings (aka showing up in the first spots in the list of tutors)? I only have 5 star reviews and have more than 500 lessons but I'm appearing so low in the list and am not getting any new requests because of that, which didn't happen before for some reason :l
Parece Legal mas não entendi nada....
Hi Joan, you are very at ease in front of the camera so we follow you until the 12 minutes ! Do you use iPhone for teaching during the class?
Hi Michael! Thanks so much for watching and subscribing. I don't typically use my iPhone to do video lessons because I type vocabulary and example sentences to my students and it's very difficult to do that from a phone. I have used my phone for lessons a few times while on vacation and it just wasn't good enough. I teach from a MacBook Air, but you can teach from any laptop with a webcam. I do use my phone during lessons to check my Chinese or Spanish dictionary when my students don't know a word. :)
Silly question maybe. I am looking at becoming an expat in the future and possibly teaching for extra income. If living abroad, does ITALKI and other companies withhold U.S. income taxes? Income taxes from the country you are teaching from? Thanks in advance.
Heey Joan, your video is very informative, I'm having a small issue and I'm wondering if you could help me please Joan, so I got excepted on italki as an Arabic tutor and then they required me to set up my schedule but there is another section that I have to fill out which is the (Student Profile Information), I honestly don't know what is it about exactly and I don't know what to write there ?
thanks in advance Joan
Thank you for your tips. :) I am was rejected for 4 times, I think is the background noise of my video. Maybe I need to add subtitles of redo it.
Hello. I am new teacher in Italki your advices help me. Thanks. But right now I don't have a lesson, please, can you help me and recomend me.
Great! May I be your student? I love the English language :)
I would love to be your tutor if Joan hasn't responded and if you don't mind.
How did you learn Chinese? I really need to learn Mandarin. I plan to go to Hong Kong with my husband in the fall.
Thanks for watching! I learned Chinese by several methods: self study, italki lessons, ChinesePod episodes, and immersion in China. If you’re going to Hong Kong, you need to learn Cantonese not Mandarin. But if you’re only going for vacation, you can survive with English! I visited Hong Kong before I spoke any Chinese and I had a great time! It’s always useful to learn “thank you” in the country’s language! :)
I've been to China before I know a tiny bit of Chinese haha. I can't wait to go back though. Thank you for replying. =D
Hong Kongers speak cantonese mostly, mandarin is their second or third language. If you want to practice your mandarin go to Beijing, Qingdao, Shanghai, Suzhou, Hangzhou, etc.
Yoyochinese & Skritter.
If I choose Japanese language would it be mean that I only teach japanese o to Japanese student that want to learn any different language like English or tagalog..? by the way I'm a Filipino cetizen and I want to appply as an online teacher in italki..
Hi Joan could you give an estimate of how much you earn doing italki full time? it would be helpful!
Thanks are you still working there in 2018
Very good video, BTW how would students book lessons with me while i just still zero lessons, is there any way to attract them apart from the video and my profile pic?
Offer cheap trial lessons- it worked for me.
There is any video English course programs free
Thanks for the tips! What exactly are you teaching? Do they give you material? Do you create your own? Or is it just practicing conversation?
You create your own material.
Nice video English course
Hello my name is Gustavo Viloria, a teacher from the Dominican Republic and I want to ask you if you always teach one on one or you make group.
I recently became a community tutor on there. Are you feeling pressured from students wanting free lessons? I am becoming stressed/agitated by people on there that only want free lessons from me and they become frustrated with me when i tell them i don't offer free lessons. I also feel like people on there get impatient when you don't respond to their private message immediately.
Sometimes I get people asking for free lessons, but I kind of just ignore those messages and reply with "If you'd like to discuss your language learning goals, please book a trial lesson." Make sure you have messages from people seeking language partners turned off in your settings. Good luck!
Thank you so much 'w'
Great video, Joan! Now if you teach Chinese how come you have so many students from that country? Sorry but I dont get it.