Anyone would have a tip on a tutor for writing practice, please? Perhaps some of the advanced learners here would know about someone.
I could do with some practice, feedback, and ideas on writing.
I tried to look people up, already got turned down a few times like "I don't give homework like that", and I've been wasting time with reading a lot of teacher profiles that wouldn't fit. I also think it might be fun to get a bit of a challenge in this area, to regularily leave the medicine text cage in this manner.
If I get to France (huge IF), I will already be judged more harshly than the natives, I will already have to deal with a lot of stereotypes and myths. I could give you a list of those I have already encountered, but there is no need to wake up even more self-underestimation than there already is
. I speak well, even though I think my residual accent will unfortunately stay with me until my last day, but my writing could be an unnecessary malus.
What do I need and expect:
1.Detailed feedback for one or two larger writing pieces per two weeks, I cannot afford much more both due to time and money. But I would prefer to work on the assignments for longer time and really play with them and improve before sending, instead of doing a large quantity of mediocre assignments. (Mediocre both on my side of the quality of completion, and also mediocre as boring intermediate-like lazy assignments)
2.Good ideas on the assignments, ideally someone with teaching experience concerning natives in schools or lycées, or someone with experience with very advanced learners. I don't have problems with emails or a few sentences, I have a huge block and temporary stupidity concerning anything with more thought, anything like a longer forum post, essai, story and so on. For that, I need someone who will give me the appropriate tasks. Something a bit creative, because that is where I get stuck. It is partially a psychological block, I have a similar one in Czech even though less severe of course, but I think it can be broken with practice.
3.If I am to pay the person, I want them to be better at guiding me and thinking of subjects to practice and stuff I need to work on, than I am. Not someone, for whom I'd be the most advanced student so far, I already have that experience.
4.Price? I can spend up to 40 euros per month for someone worth it. I am saying it like this, because I don't know what can I get for this money from someone competent. There are people that would be probably good at what I need and take even more than that per one hour. It is hard to guess the price, because I have no clue how long would the feedback take. It could be two 45 minute skypes, or it could be detailed email feedback to several assignments, I don't know. The internet is flooded with "let's just speak for an hour and forget about writing" offers, the opposite seems to be a weird demand.
Any ideas, please?