Guidelines for Effective Learner Messages
Although our service is free to you, language teachers must pay a small fee
in order to contact you or to reply to your messages.
This pays for our cost and time in operating this website.
Based on your message here and your teacher wanted ad,
teachers must determine whether you are serious
about paying a qualified teacher to give you language lessons and whether you are a
suitable student for the teaching services they offer.
Only when a teacher feels there is a reasonable chance that you will eventually
become a paying student, will he or she respond.
Thus to maximize responses from teachers, we recommend you follow these simple
guidelines when creating your teacher wanted ad:
- Show respect for your potential teacher.
Use proper language and appropriate formailty in your ad and messages.
Here are some examples:
- Do not address teachers with 'hey how's it going'.
- Follow proper grammar, such as beginning your sentences with captials.
Do not use all capitals.
- Do not use slang or Internet abbreviations.
- If you intend to take lessons in a country you plan to visit, please specify the city where
you intend to take lessons. Also, please specify the time of year and duration you plan to be
there. Be as specific as possible.
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