It's quite hard to lose a Duolingo streak

Re:It's quite hard to lose a Duolingo streak by UweSchmidt on Sunday July 03, 2022 @09:04AM (#31967409)

Private tutoring has to be, with a good teacher, orders of magnitude better than anything else. Services that ask you to "request a quote" instead of naming a price are of course not for everybody.

Has anyone had success with finding tutors on platforms like italki.com? I tried for a bit but probably didn't spend enough time to find the right tutor.

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Re:It's quite hard to lose a Duolingo streak by aix1 on Sunday July 03, 2022 @09:26AM (#31967553)

> Has anyone had success with finding tutors on platforms like italki.com?

italki - yes, absolutely, but taking your time to do the research definitely pays off.

My method was to shortlist teachers who:

(1) fit my linguistic needs (country/dialect, native speaker status etc); and

(2) satisfied certain availability criteria (timezone, teaching days/hours etc); and

(3) had a high enough number of students and -- critically -- a high enough total_lessons/total_student metric (I forget the cutoffs I used).

I then looked through their profiles (there were by this point only tens of teachers left on my list for German), arranged trial lessons with a handful, and picked the one.

Been with that teacher for a few months. Couldn't be happier with the experience and with my progress.

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