Arnaud wrote:Week 19:
Italki lessons: After my initial enthousiasm, things are less evident. The tutor with whom it clicked well has changed his schedules and I don't see him when I'm online. I've tried a few others but it didn't go very well, either the level is too basic or too high, they don't adapt to me very much and I don't dare to tell them they are on the wrong track, so I finished the sessions of this week with an aftertaste of frustration and feeling completly idiot. Probably my fault, I'm not very gifted for the relations with my fellow human brothers.
I wonder if they are people for whom Italki doesn't work. Just curious.
Just lower your expectations. I have two tutors and have done nine sessions with each. Of the eighteen sessions, maybe three were terrific, twelve were okay, and six were torture. And this is with the same people. And the same people are sometimes too high and sometimes too low, especially at first. After all, how can they know exactly what I know in the first couple of sessions?
I think just grabbing whoever is online could be frustrating. The way I chose was to get two different semi-permanent tutors with different approaches--one man, one woman, living thousands of miles apart. One for formal tutoring, one informal. And I went by who was cheap in part ... but also I skipped everyone with less than 300 lessons on their record. Yes, I might miss the greatest tutor of all who is just starting out ... but I also miss all the flakes who don't take it seriously, and all the tutors who are so bad no one takes a second lesson with them ...
For what it's worth ...
