How to find the perfect language tutor

[@Thelinguist]

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[@LearnRussianStanislavAcademy]

I've been running a language school for over 20 years, and I believe matching students with the right language instructor is an essential skill for the job!

[@M.Mohibi]

Thanks Steve for keeping us motivated and informed in various topics, as Steven Krashen said, "you just brought me in your team, boy" 😅

[@francescaan110]

I disagree regarding the grammar point because not everyone has the motivation or time to work on their own, so if the student is not able to get to the conversational level on their own, the tutor must help them by creating fun and practical lessons that integrate grammar into conversation!

[@pavleluger777]

I am a tutor and language coach and have had very engaging and positive sessions! Because the best method for learning is the tutor - student relation with very positive ambient

[@KarlSmith-p5r]

Thanks! I find I send al out as much time and energy thinking about the process of learning Spanish as I do actually learning it and I like that. I like to talk and read and listen to people like you talking about the best ways to learn. It is important.to step back and analyse and evaluate the process in this way. I like to do it with my Spanish teacher and her more like a coach t me that a straight up tutor. A language therapist, almost.

[@Poliglotovic]

This was what I needed as I want to tutor people myself. Thank you for sharing!

[@sequoia4520]

Excellent advice. Thank you much!

[@s.j4606]

Interesting ! I have reached out to this purpose myself a few days ago . I decide to take a tutorial in such a way soon thanks for it Mr. Kaufmann .now I can talk with them courageously .❤❤❤

[@vitorpaim5499]

Thanks for your advices Steve, it has helped me a lot!!

[@MrAVilain]

I agree with almost everything, even with the last and maybe more controversial part, about a messy but still funny and engaging class being better than an overly formal one. That’s what I noticed as a French tutor. Still, you’re kind of an ideal student, that is to say... not very representative of the average adult learner. I’d say that a lot of them seems pretty lost, asks for a direction and cannot fill a dialog even with a cautious help. Mainly, I think, because of a lack of self-confidence and a rather scholar oriented mind (if not trauma). So the range between a directive class and an assisted dialog must be choosen depending on the student’s profile - at least in my experience. I can approximatively teach a language - with many mistakes on my part, and I’m still learning - teaching the kind of coolness and autonomy you’re talking about is way more difficult. Neyse abiciğim, kolay gelsin diliyorum sana, Türkçe baya güzel bir dil. Ben de öğreniyorum, her gün çok hoşuma gidiyor.

[@Fatima-sowf7]

i love your videos thanks for your information and motivation to learn many languages 🥀✨

[@soraya1490]

❤❤❤❤ excelente video, gracias.

[@birgitp.7223]

Hi, thank you for your interesting Videos on this chanell. Now my question: I‘ am using LINGQ to learn english. When I tried to Import the video about chunking , it came out with arabic subtitles. What‘s to do? Greatings from Germany!

[@raymondblake5765]

Ok so i actually want my tutor to speak a decent amount. Sure, i can listen to an infinite amount of content without him, but the content is not talking directly to me... I want them to talk TO ME.... i think the experience of being talked to directly is slightly different than listening to content... And for that reason I do want my tutor to talk a fair amount.

[@aidenxie692]

you can just use ChatGPT advanced voice mode as a tutor, maybe you can do a review video.

[@kevinmogg6379]

How do you generate the transcripts from the tutoring session? Does the tutor type that in or is it by voice recognition?

[@Thelinguist]

Types report and then records it.

[@stepheng9607]

One of the things that has come up for me, is not so much that the tutor has to be a native speaker but they must be living in the country where the language is spoken. I have had some lovely tutors but who do not live in the relevant country. As a learner of the language of that country it is difficult to get a conversation going about current affairs, TV and media etc when they are not in that country and so have not been following those topics.

[@yolcujiujitsummasporsalonu4779]

Hello, as a native Turkish person who is an English tutor as well, i would like to help you if you wish.

[@luisalfredowalker67]

I wanto to teach English in my city but i don't know how can i teach them. How to start, etc. Even though I'm good at learning.

[@kaitlin_griffith]

Hi Steve, I have been trying to generate automatic audio transcripts for my Czech Lessons in LingQ but it doesn't work, do you have any idea why?

[@hassanahassan-k5z6s]

Relie chaque pièce de la maison aux activités correspondantes

[@airfreshKahyarust-uk3pk]

Karşilastirirsak means if we compare

[@satchycollins3985]

Thanks

[@adiboena123]

Exactly ☘

[@Una_profe]

Native speakers have pros and cons. They have never learned the language goal as a foreing person. They didn't live the experiencia even if they are good at teaching and speaking

[@kevinmogg6379]

And is that a linqQ feature?

[@HanaGabrielleBidon]

Yes

[@gamingwithpurg3anarchy157]

Ninguém quer falar comigo no português ao fone 😢 Estive tentando encontrar um brasileiro por um ano agora E não tenho $ pra um tutor 😭

[@ивангареев-и5ю]

🥺

[@luisalfredowalker67]

Como ?😂 Nunca pensei encontrar alguém aqui que falasse português. Obs: Não sou brasileiro, sou angolano.

[@gamingwithpurg3anarchy157]

​@@luisalfredowalker67 E agora você tem 😂

[@gamingwithpurg3anarchy157]

​@@luisalfredowalker67ooh wow sua bandeira é meu favorito ❤ gosto muito dele.. como um americano eu deveria dizer que minha bandeira é meu favorito né 😂😂 Mas não 😂 Você fala inglês mano? Só curioso... Mas se você gostaria de falar ao fone eu faria isso também. Não tenho ninguém amigos angolanos! E na verdade só conheci 1 através de um jogo.. mas só falei com ele uma vez no jogo.

[@luisalfredowalker67]

@@gamingwithpurg3anarchy157 Falo Inglês, mano ✅😅

[@wei.zhirui]

nativespeakerism

[@themeiafy]

This sounds more like a language practice partner than a tutor. There's nothing wrong with it, but you should call it what it is, in order not to mislead people. A tutor needs to have a program on which his or her lessons are based. Of course, a tutor should be flexible and adjust the lessons to the requirements of a specific student, but most language learners need some structure. If they could ensure this structure independently, they would learn a language on their own and then practice it with native speakers.

[@jorgellanos91]

I think this video would be more for someone who already has a base in the language and wants to continue learning it in a self-taught way, and in my opinion this would be the best option to learn in a more affective way. On the other hand, this video mentions the functions that the tutor should perform and those functions are not done by a language practice partner, no partner is going to correct you or create reports of the conversations. For someone to listen to you carefully and give you feedback you have to pay for it, and that is what a tutor does.

[@themeiafy]

@jorgellanos91 Sure, at B2 level any medium is beneficial. You just soak in the language at this stage, whether you're reading newspaper articles, listening to ads or talking to native speakers. But he didn't say anything about the level required for this approach. In fact, he recommends using it as soon as possible, which is counterproductive, in my opinion. As for correcting mistakes, I've been on both ends of this process: I spoke with people who wanted to practice my native language and practiced foreign languages with native speakers, and I corrected people and was being corrected, respectively. And no, I didn't pay for it and wasn't paid for it either. Making reports is just his preference, many tutors and professors do that regardless of the actual functions they're fulfilling.

[@HienNguyen_369]

你可以说越南语吗？

[@ивангареев-и5ю]

Для России сейчас всё закрыли. Приложения не скачиваются или не работают.😔

[@godiear350]

Teaching foreign languages for non natives should be banned as a major, only natives of the languages should be allowed to enroll in any program that focuses on language acquisition for foreigners. Hard pill to swallow.

[@ArsenicApplejuice]

That’s just silly to be honest The only benefit a native speaker brings as a teacher beyond a non native speaker is being able to model the language for a student. If you as a student only model yourself off of a single source. You are unlikely to be successful. All of the other skills of a teacher are much more important. Of course a sufficient level in the language is necessary but this can be learnt. The teacher even a native speaker should direct you to resources for input beyond themselves. Shows, podcasts, news etc. or even level appropriate educational content. Teaching goes beyond being a a recording of native speech for your students. If you look at some of the most successful language teaching programs around the world. Look at English in Europe Germany Scandinavia etc. the teachers are not usually native speakers. But use resources outside the classroom of native speakers to make their students fluent.

[@RebeolMig]

So by your logic, English should only be taught by native speakers. And considering that English is a mandatory subject in pretty much every school around the world, they would all be forced to hire native speakers or simply not teach English at all out of fear that a fluent but not native speaker of English just may not be good enough...

[@godiear350]

@@RebeolMig yeah, my flawed argument was as you described; time for make a career change for me tough, I'm tired of trying to survive teaching a language that I'm not native, so, that's that.

[@RebeolMig]

@godiear350 I feel you, man. I'm a non-native German teacher, and sometimes I still face some suspicion from native speakers regarding my capacities as a teacher, and it really is difficult to build a solid career in such a situation.