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