Irena wrote:Cavesa wrote:The shocking part was her dissociation of the clear proof that I could do it (as she was amazed herself at my speaking) and the trash she was offering me, really expecting me to pay. And also the complete lack of listening. I told her the goal, she ignored/changed it. I told her the methods that I wanted to add hers to, she told me to stop that. I told her the reason for the deadline, she assumed just ignoring and giving up on the deadline was no big deal.
If you're an exceptional learner looking for a teacher, then you have two reasonable options: (1) find an exceptional teacher, (2) find a very open-minded teacher and make sure you're in the driver's seat, with the teacher there as a helper rather than a guide. Otherwise, it's not going to work. (1) is tough to find and likely to be expensive. (2) shouldn't be that hard, but you really do have to know what you're doing.
No need to be patronizing, this was a thread about "what was your worst/strangest experience with an online tutor", I didn't ask for a totally obvious piece of advice.
I am actually not that exceptional. Just we, people with high IQ (several % of the population, and even more % of the population interested in learning stuff), get punished all the time and forced to underachieve and conform to the expectations, untill most of us give up. And there is nothing that exceptional about my study skills, I am actually under-average among people with demanding degrees, such as medicine. Unfortunately, the social standard and expectations in education are based on the lazy and not really serious students from the mass degrees. Which leads to many (language) teachers not really knowing, what to do, and also not really handling well students vastly more intelligent and capable than them.
Yes, of course I could not accept such average trash as a tutor. Obviously. I just wasn't asking any advice in this thread, just describing how weird behaving this moron was.
leosmith wrote:What a terrible teacher. I wonder if she really believed that, or she just wanted to stick to some crappy pre-designed plan of hers.Cavesa wrote:nope, you cannot reach B1 in a few months
That's a very good question! The second part was imho true in either case. But she really seemed to also believe that. Sometimes, a belief is much stronger than a proof.