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NATIVE SPEAKER WITH TEFL OFFERING PRIVATE ENGLISH LESSONS IN IMIELIN AREA.


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gary200481Threads: 8
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Native english speaker offering conversation and general tuition
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As a native english speaker, please explain to me how you offer "general tuition"...

Yea...
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pantsless:
please explain to me how you offer "general tuition"..

Perhaps he can teach me how to play the flute.
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JonnyM:
Perhaps he can teach me how to play the flute.


You laugh, but things are apparently so desperate in Berlin for many "native speakers" that they're willing to travel to someone's flat to give them instrument lessons for 5 euro an hour.
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delphiandomine:
5 euro an hour.

That isn't even enough to feed yourself for a day.
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delphiandomine:
5 euro an hour.


Is that due to a glut of real native speakers like in Krakow, the economy, just cause its Berlin or what?
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pantsless:
Is that due to a glut of real native speakers like in Krakow, the economy, just cause its Berlin or what?


Just way, way, way too many people who think that "man, I wanna live in Berlin, it'll be awesome" without considering it. There's also a hell of a lot of them employed in a so-called "minijob" - which, as I understand - only allows you to earn 400 euro a month and no social insurance is paid.

Where's Imielin?
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pantsless:
Krakow, the economy, just cause its Berlin or what?

Is native speaker a word or was it never?
delphiandomine:
Where's Imielin?

Two stops before the end of the line.

Seriously, it seems that there are a lot of hard-up native speakers in PL at the moment. It PL a bad corner of the world to be at the moment?
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JonnyM:
Seriously, it seems that there are a lot of hard-up native speakers in PL at the moment. It PL a bad corner of the world to be at the moment?


Not from what I can tell - I'm still getting 3-4 e-mails a week enquiring about my availability, and still plenty of work being offered in language schools in the 4:30-8:30pm timescale.

I'd say that it's becoming more and more difficult for people who aren't thoroughly professional - there's now enough people here that you don't have to take the guy who was fired from a Callan school, for instance.

The other thing - the days of "lucrative, guaranteed hours" seem to be over. I had a discussion with one school director about this - he told me that there's now so much choice for teachers that he is only offering 12 hours a week to new teachers - with only reliable, established teachers getting 20-24.
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Joined: Feb 1, 10 ♂ 		Edited by: pantsless  Jan 19, 12, 17:19    #10
JonnyM:
Is native speaker a word or was it never?


Yea, its a real english term however I never liked it. In a similar vein to "In my free time I..." or "I need to get credit to buy a house", its English thats been slightly corrupted or misused but in a way so understandable and in a way logical that I'm pretty sure it'll be accepted as real English.

I'll also add that similar to delph I get at least an email or two a week asking if I'm interested in teaching. I turn them all down cause either I'm too busy, the money is not good enough, or maybe its cause I'm just plain lazy. Empik sent me an email a few days ago, get this, in-company business english classes at fine hours like 7:30am for... 50zl/60mins. I told them, a la BrE, to "bugger off". I guess if you're a clown or bum you might have difficult finding a steady job but the market is still ok. Just that it's getting worse and worse or maybe more saturated.


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