u/googlrgirl

I got a notification that I'm a potential tutor for a student. I messaged her. she didn't read my message -which is totally okay- then she booked a trial in like 3 min.

I sent her a message to know about her goals, level.. etc before tomorrow's trial especially that I have three more trials this week. Two of them are tomorrow and I'm kinda suspicious there's a kind of offer in Preply for free trials!

Anyways, she read my messages and didn't reply till now. I'm thinking of waiting till midnight (she's same my timezone) then block her if she doesn't reply till that time.

That's the first time for me to message a student who booked a trial, and they "read" the message without replying.

It's okay if they don't read them at all. But reading without a response is weird and feels a kind of disrespectful for me.

Should I block her?

My converstion rate is 66.7% and I have 3 booked trials other than this one. That number of trials in two day is weird for me it didn't happen before, and One of the booked trials is already weird bc she asked me about my rate. She then told me that she's okay with it, but I'm really suspicious of those silly students who book trials just to have fun or to not miss an amazing offer!

If there's a native who can create a completely customized Anki deck for you, not just word & meaning/picture cards.

Or even if you're making excellent decks, but you sometimes think that maybe if there's a native who can do this 1, 2 & 3 for me or check them, that would be PERFECTION. What are those things that would make it perfect for your language learning?

For example: Audio would be a huge plus from a native. But would you need the audio to be for:

1- isolated words

2- chunks?

3- Short dialogues (question & response)?

4- Situational practice in multiple choice with audio for the answer?

Or what?

And what else do you think a native speaker would have an advantage in doing for you? :)

About me:I teach the MSA& Egyptian dialect. I don't have an official degree in teaching

Preply recommended $3 as a starting price, I was Shocked! But I said let's try to see whether prices boost the visibility as they say in their website, I was just basically planning to learn in my first month how Preply works, and how to teach a language to different types of students.. etc.

I did 44 lessons in 24 days, 5 5-star reviews, and 4 students. I raised my price to be $5 to see how it affects my visibility, and Preply made my profile around 575 or something! I insisted on staying with $5, only ONE student considered me as a potential tutor and he didn't even reply to the message!

I decided to get back to $3 yesterday to confirm whether it's a price issue or not. In 12 hours, 3 students booked trial lessons and 3 more favorite my profile. I feel very disrespected to the bottom part in my heart!

yes wages are extremely bad in Egypt (I left Egypt just 6 months ago so I know how things are), but students who're learning will NEVER be Egyptians living there or foreigners taking the same salaries as Egyptians if they're living in Egypt. There's a huge gap in salaries between Egyptians and Non-Egyptians. so they won't -in any case- have issues in money unlike their tutors! A gallon of milk is like $2.76 at Aldi so this $3 is .... I don't know how to name it. I have American and European students so yes they know it very well, why do they do that?

I Know that I'm not a former/current teacher in a school, but it's difficult bc I'm located in another country and most probably moving to another country in 2 months so I decided till that point to just get experience. But I truly make effort! I create really personalized lessons. After each lesson, I send +50 recordings in my voice at different speeds for new vocab or whole sentences, as well as personalized speaking homework tasks that I make for each student. That's Because all of my students want to focus on Speaking and Listening. I made hundreds of recordings in 24 days.

Am I expecting too much and I should just lower my expectations, and accept these lower prices?

Should I consider the average price of a beginner in my language and just continue what I consider devaluing myself?

If I should raise my prices, what price do you recommend given all the above? And what price increasing strategy that you believe would be working for my case?

I moved recently to the US, and my major issue with the language is people don't talk that clearly as movies/Series and that English that has been taught in all those long videos on YouTube, that doesn't happen in real life, that's not how most people talk in real life around me.

I will move to France soon, and I want to avoid that nightmare again.

I don't want to learn things that are not used in real life and spend triple the time trying to replace those things with how people actually speak. I'm Egyptian, that happens too often with people who learn Modern standard Arabic and think this is how we talk in Egypt, which is 100% wrong.

Can you recommend resources for real-life french? It's preferable if some of them could be on YouTube so I could shadow easily.

Hello. I'm currently in the US on an F-2 Visa, and I want to gain research experience as a volunteer from Chemistry labs in a local US university where I live now. I have a BSc in Chemistry & postgraduate diploma and +5years of professional experience.

My main goal is to learn and know how everything works in a lab, and how to interpret the results as a researcher, and how to even think of the problems to solve them, I want to learn technicalities and the mindset.

I just want to know, has anyone experienced such a situation where a non-student volunteer in a Chemistry/Materials lab?

Given that My local uni offers/encourage unpaid research positions for undergrads besides the paid ones (which requires prior applying and I guess they're more competitive), but how different would it be for an international non-student? My Visa situation is important because it allows only for volunteering (Which I'm actually interested in), I cannot be paid under any circumstances.

Hello. I'm an international resident who recently moved to the US for the first time, specifically Lansing.

I love walking, but it's different here so I try to have my walks in the mornings/afternoon in the grand river trails and nearby streets around them. I want to start running, but my biggest fear is homeless people as I don't know how to keep my safety.

The situation in the US is extremely different from my country, people who knew my background warned me many times about that, and told me to avoid being alone with them in any quiet spot (mainly due to easy access to drugs/alcohol/guns here)

So whenever I encounter homeless people under a bridge or in a quiet area, I’ll wait for another person to pass by so I can follow them through.

However, if no one comes along -which occurred many times- I sometimes get so scared that I turn around and head back the way I came, which cuts my walk short.

What really scares me is that almost every day, I'm approached or waved at by a homeless person.

Maybe my appearance as a foreigner is the reason why they're more likely to talk. Do you know any people from abroad who had the same experience?

And I’ve noticed more homeless people are out now that the weather is warmer.

So How can I stay safe without being rude? Am I scared/anxious much more than I should?

Should I ignore them completely and keep going through the way? Or should I stay away from that area unless someone is passing by?