Finding an online Chinese tutor

[dmccarroll16]

Hi All,

I'd like to advertise for a Chinese language tutor in China. I'm based in the US and would connect with them via Skype or QQ. While Craigslist has sites for several Chinese cities I assume that it is mostly read by native-English-speakers. I'd like to find a Chinese-language equivalent.

I've looked into ZhanTai but it seems to be cluttered with questionable ads. I suspect that my ad would be lost there.

I've also looked at BaiDu's forums but there doesn't seem to be a forum for "help wanted" ads.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance,

Douglas

[kdavid]

Have you tried Google:

http://www.languageexchange.org/

http://www.myhappyplanet.com/

[dmccarroll16]

Thanks for the suggestions, kdavid, but I think that both of these services, and others like them, are more focused on trading tutoring than on one person hiring another, which is what I want to do.

Also, I'm attracted to the challenge of using a Chinese-language website to advertise. My Chinese skills are limited, and I think that this would be a good challenge. I guess that I feel that by doing this I'd really be stepping into the "real Chinese world"...

Any other suggestions, anyone?

TIA!

Douglas

[chrix]

well, you can find people on these sites that sell their services as tutors for a fee, at least at www.italki.com which is also a language exchange centred website.

If you want the Chinese language challenge, just change your language settings to Chinese... it will be every bit as authentic, given the fact that there are many Chinese users on this type of websites....

[roddy]

Try here - I could tell you exactly what it is, but then there'd be less challenge.

[dmccarroll16]

Chrix:

Thanks. I wasn't aware of italki.com - and it looks like a great resource. It show fees ranging from $1 to $500 an hour - - !?

Roddy - Thanks! (But I cheated, with Google Translate

[chrix]

dmccarroll, I've never used italki for finding an online tutor, only for language exchange, but be aware that some of them are just playing around with the settings, and hence ask for $500. It's not necessarily what you would really end up paying. I guess you'd add them as friends first and then find out what they're after...

[giraffe]

For the past four months I've been having a weekly 90 minute Skype class with a teacher I found through iTalki.

Here's her page in case you're interested:

http://www.italki.com/T001448604.htm

Her rate ($10 US per hour) is higher than some of the others on iTalki but still seems very reasonable. Especially since she sends me detailed notes after each lesson and an MP3 recording of the notes. Recently I've started paying her directly, since there didn't seem to be much value (at this point) in iTalki taking their cut.

One of the nice things about iTalki is that most of the tutors provide free 30 minute trials so that made it easy to try it out and make sure I was comfortable with the teacher before making a commitment.

[dmccarroll16]

Hi Giraffe,

Thanks for the recommendation. I agree that $10 is quite reasonable by 美国人 standards and, hopefully, a good rate to earn in China. You just may have found your tutor a new customer.

Douglas

[natra]

I have been using http://www.edufire.com/ lately for Chinese tutoring. There are a lot of people based in China that you can arrange tutoring sessions with, and with the way the site is set up you can shop around to find a tutor you like.

The going rate is around $10/hour.

[dmccarroll16]

Thanks Natra, looks interesting.