What I think the most difficult part of ITALKI lessons is!
I had my first italki lesson in early May and had been getting along with different italki teachers for 2 months. I found my English learning had reached a plateau, and the most difficult part of it can be "finding appropriate topics with matched teacher."
When it comes to language learning, the language itself can be the least important part. Language is just a tool for human, and it's even still just a tool in the process of language learning. The core is the comparison and communication of different cultures, that is to say, the world views of two groups of people. Anyway, language is a culture thing.
Notice the fact—— even with your best friend, you can never always come up with attractive topics at any specific time, let alone the stranger on the other end of the network who have cultural barriers with you.
The ultimate core of italki learning: "finding appropriate topics so both teachers and students getting involved and having fun" needs efforts, honesty, and sincereness from both sides.
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What I think the most difficult part of ITALKI lessons is! (The trailing "is" is OK, but you could consider rearranging to something like "What I find to be the most difficult aspect of ITALKI lessons!")
I had my first italki lesson in early May and have been getting along with different italki teachers for 2 months. I have found that my English learning has reached a plateau, and the most difficult part of it can be "finding appropriate topics with my chosen teacher."
I've suggested tense changes here since I think this is probably what you mean. If I have misunderstood, my apologies. The "and have been getting along ..." change makes this something that you have been doing since May, and are still doing. That seems to fit with "2 months". For the second change, "have found", this suggestion again makes this something that you found in the past that still has impact today. For "has reached" - the same thing. These are all uses of the present perfect tense.
With "matched teacher", your version is not strictly wrong, though I felt the lack of an article or determiner, and have suggested an alternative.
When it comes to language learning, the language itself can be the least important part. Language is just a tool for humans, and it's even still just a tool in the process of language learning. The core is the comparison and communication of different cultures, that is to say, the world views of two groups of people. Anyway, language is a culture thing.
Notice the fact: even with your best friend, you cannot always come up with attractive topics at any specific time, let alone with the stranger on the other end of the network who has cultural barriers with you.
The ultimate core of italki learning is "finding appropriate topics so both teachers and students can get involved and have fun". This needs efforts, honesty, and sincereness ("sincerity" is more often chosen) from both sides.
I've suggested tiny changes here. The new sentences are just to make the flow easier to follow.
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/english-grammar-reference/present-perfect
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A great essay with only a few corrections - I disagree that you need to find topics that you have in common with a teacher because you need to be brought out of your comfort zone. You can consider using a site like www.esldiscussions.com - you could agree the topic from the site in advance.
What I think the most difficult part of ITALKI lessons is!
I had my first italki lesson in early May and had been getting along with different italki teachers for 2 months. I found my English learning had reached a plateau, and the most difficult part of it can be "finding appropriate topics with matched teacher."
When it comes to language learning, the language itself can be the least important part. Language is just a tool for the human, and it's even still just a tool in the process of language learning. The core is the comparison and communication of different cultures, that is to say, the world views of two groups of people. Anyway, language is a culture thing.
Notice the fact—— even with your best friend, you can never always come up with attractive topics at any specific time, let alone the stranger on the other end of the network who have cultural barriers with you.
The ultimate core of italki learning: "finding appropriate topics so both teachers and students getting involved and having fun" needs efforts, honesty, and sincereness sincerity from both sides.
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In addition to the previously mentioned, I also noticed this correction:
What I think the most difficult part of ITALKI lessons is!
I had my first italki lesson in early May and had been getting along with different italki teachers for 2 months. I found my English learning had reached a plateau, and the most difficult part of it can be "finding appropriate topics with matched teacher."
When it comes to language learning, the language itself can be the least important part. Language is just a tool for human, and it's even still just a tool in the process of language learning. The core is the comparison and communication of different cultures, that is to say, the world views of two groups of people. Anyway, language is a culture thing.
Notice the fact—— even with your best friend, you can never always come up with attractive topics at any specific time, let alone the stranger on the other end of the network who have has cultural barriers with you.
The ultimate core of italki learning: "finding appropriate topics so both teachers and students getting involved and having fun" needs efforts, honesty, and sincereness from both sides.
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I have been working as an ESL teacher for many years but I don’t charge people who exchange languages with me.
To find interesting topic also takes a certain amount of chemistry too. There are some people who click with you immediately and others who don’t. I have had people book my classes for 3 years in a row and other people met me and could not connect with me. Overall, I have a core group of clients and languages partners with whom I found a way to connect well. It helps if you use a wide variety of resources available on the internet such as reading comprehension passages. I am on my 3rd week of discussing wildlife, camping and national parks in America. Sometimes, my partners like to choose topics and bring their own things to class. It is fundamental that you find a way to connect with one another and you can build bridges and set the stage for language acquisition.
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I totally agree with you. I have same problem and had several lessons, but eventually I'm almost giving up to find a good teacher here.
Discussing culture is a great fun, but there are stereotypes or even discriminatory attitude at the same time. Maybe we, as Asian women, should take some risk.
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