Moe
Japanese
Feb 3, 2021
Deeさん、レッスンお疲れ様でした✨話し言葉を書き言葉に表すことはなかなか難しいですよね😆これからも一緒にセッション頑張りましょう！読み方や発音、文法など分からないことがあれば、質問してくださいね！ではまた次のレッスンでお会いしましょう〜！
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Hello! My name is Darrion, but you may call me Dee for short! I'm 27 years old, I’m an American. I was born, raised and currently live in the United States. I'm a professional musician as well as a certified TEFL teacher! I love to travel and meet new people, and as a professional touring musician I am able to frequently meet new people from all over the world! I also love learning about different cultures and new languages. My three languages of focus right now are, Japanese, Spanish and German, all three of which I have been learning for over 2 years! I also love speaking with and helping people who are interested in learning and improving their English! I have over four years of experience teaching English online informally, and now I teach English online!
If you have any questions about English, feel free to send me a message and I will try to answer them! If you want to improve your speaking, book a session with me! I look forward to helping you learn and improve your English!
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Moe
Japanese
Jan 30, 2021
Deeさん、今日は本当にありがとうございました！とても楽しかったですね！
次回またお会いするまでに、翻訳の準備をしておきますね✨Have a good weekend and please take care of yourself!
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- 1. “The room strikes nice and warm on coming in” May be grammatically acceptable in casual speech, but I think “The room feels nice and warm when you come in.” Sounds more natural. 2. “When he arrived in Chicago, his friends met him at the station.” Your original sentence implies that this friend’s arrive, but I think you mean “when he arrived.” 3. I would say: “It seemed advisable to get an early start in order to reach the summit by noon.” Or “It was advised to get an early start to reach the summit by noon.” It also may be better to specify the who in the sentence. “We were advised to get an early start in order to get to the summit by noon.” 4. “By working hard, the task was finished.” One may read this sentence as “the task worked hard and finished. Work on clarifying who worked hard, name the subject: he, she, you, I… 5. “To make a long story short, the boat capsized.” This is fine I think. I hope this was helpful!0 votedApril 10, 20250
- Hello CEPIK AXMETOB! I would like to make a small correction for you. You said: “I want to speaking practice more. My level B–1/ I’m waiting for you.” The corrected version would be: “I would like to practice speaking more. My level is B1. I’ll be waiting for you.” In your sentence, you used the “-ing” form of the verb after “want to,” which isn’t correct. After “want to,” we need to use the base form of the verb, like this: 1. “I want to speak.” 2. “I want to talk.” 3. “I want to practice.” Also, we need to include the verb “is” to connect the subject “My level” with the description “B1.” I hope this helps you! I would love to help you improve your speaking skills! Feel free to check my calendar and book a session with me. I look forward to seeing you soon!0 votedFebruary 1, 20251
- Hola Gerardo! #3. You said: “I missed a deadline and lost an opportunity that I don’t think it’s going to happen again.” It should either be: 1. “I missed a deadline and lost an opportunity that I don’t think is going to happen again.” Or: 2. “I missed a deadline and lost an opportunity that I don’t think will happen again.” #7. You said: “I enjoyed the morning sessions of the course, but the afternoons were a bit dull.” I would remove “of the course.” So, it would be: “I enjoyed the morning sessions, but the afternoon ones were a bit dull.” Alternatively, you could say “lessons” or “classes.” Example 1: “I enjoyed the morning lessons, but the afternoon ones were a bit dull.” Example 2: “I enjoyed the morning classes, but the afternoon ones were a bit dull.” #8. “I enjoyed the morning subjects, but the afternoon ones were boring.” You used “subjects” here, but “lessons” might sound a bit more natural in this context also. So, you could say: “I enjoyed the morning lessons, but the afternoon ones were boring.” #9. You said: “The weekday subjects were engaging, but the ones on Saturday were pretty boring.” You said “subjects” again, which could be swapped with either “classes” or “lessons“ which sounds more natural: “The weekday classes were engaging, but the ones on Saturday were pretty boring.” I think your other sentences sound fine—good job Gerardo!0 votedFebruary 1, 20251
- Hi Luis! I honestly think the sentences you have are fine! If I were going to make any changes, they’d all be small and based on my own personal preference. I don’t think any changes are really necessary—good job! Take your original sentence for example: “I made plenty of food for my guests, but none of them liked it. I will try a different menu next time.” I would personally say something like: “I made plenty of food for my guests, but none of them liked it—I guess I’ll try out a different menu next time and see if I get a better result.” One other sentence for example: “After walking 20 minutes in the heat to the office, I hoped to get some water from the water cooler, but there wasn't any.” Here, I would just get rid of the word “water” in “water cooler,” and say “cooler.” So: “After walking 20 minutes in the heat to the office, I hoped to get some water from the cooler, but there wasn't any.” Another alternative could be: “After walking 20 minutes in the heat to the office, I hoped to grab some water from the cooler, but there wasn't any.” Other teachers and I could go on making small changes to all of your sentences, but unless you really want to see a bunch of different variations, I don’t think any changes are necessary.0 votedFebruary 1, 20252
- Hello Teachers/Tutors! I have some questions: 1. How do you deal with a tween or teen in particular when you realize that you have been set up with one who clearly has no interest in learning English, and has no say in the matter about being there? 2. Do you have any tips/advice for helping tweens and teens improve their English without having to be incredibly fake energetic with them? It seems like there are some parents on here that sit their children in front of the computer with strangers who speak a language that they have absolutely no interest in learning. From the very few that I've encountered, all but two just had no interest in really trying to learn English. Aside from the two exceptions that I've made since I've stopped accepting sessions with children – one for a 10 year old kid from Israel and one other 8 or 9 year old kid from Germany that specifically chose me and enjoy learning English – I mostly decline sessions with children now. I even kindly make this clear in my main session's description that I would prefer that parents find other tutors who are experienced with children, but inspite of that, I still get requests from parents to teach their children. 🤷🏽♂️ Nowadays, I just ask the parents if their child really wants to learn English, or if they are forcing their child to learn English. If their child is not really interested, I politely decline the request and kindly ask the parents to search for a tutor that is more experienced with children. If their child actually really enjoys learning English, and if the child is the one that chooses me him/herself, I'm more inclined to make exceptions. What do YOU do personally when you realize you are faced with a tween or teen that has no interest in learning English? I assume that you would just decide to not do any further sessions with them after the trial is over? Or do you take it as a challenge and actually try to make it work somehow if you receive another request from the parents?February 11, 202161
- Hi @LisaDukes! Yes, that would be so great! I actually have a lot of time during the day in the afternoon, I'm even willing to skype with you for a bit if you're down for it! I will go ahead send you a friend request! Thanks for responding to this thread!Update: Just realized I'm unable to send you a request LIsa! So yes! Please send me a request and I'll respond! Thank you!Hi @Becca! Thanks for the advice and website recommendations! I'll definiteky check them out! I've also been looking into a website called Off2Class.com as well to help with my sessions on here. If you haven't heard of it, I'd check it out, looks pretty legit. There's also a website I found I might use called quizizz.com.Anyway thank you ladies!0 votedAugust 5, 20200
- American or British English italki teacher's advice needed for conducting conversational sessions with kids!I have two sessions: one is a conversational session, and the other one is a story time session (which is not so popular and I'm going to change soon)Not so long ago, I received a trial session request from one itlaki user. I accepted the request, and I was excited to get another booking! Little did I know that when the day would come for us to do our session, I would be presented with an 8 year old boy from Russia! This was my first time having a conversational English session with someone so young! I was not warned about this at-all! I had no idea what to do, what kind of conversations do you have with someone so young, and how do you keep them engaged?! I didn't know for sure what to talk about with this kid, but I started asking him a bunch of introductory questions, and eventually of course he began to lose interest and started playing with his computer and not really paying attention which was super draining... After I ran out of questions, I decided to change things up and share my screen to practice some easy beginner conversations from a website that has prepared conversational scripts... I told the kid that I would be person A and he would person B. We did this for the remainder of the time. He started showing a little more interest and engagement. He was a shy kid, I think that played a factor as well... Anyway. They booked another session and he seemed to be more attentative during that next session which was nice.Shortly after these sessions I decided to leave a note in my session description, this exactly: "#1. I'm not experienced with holding English conversational sessions with children, so please consider looking for a more experienced teacher for your child. Thank you for your understanding!"About a week later after making this note, I received a new session request. The session request was scheduled for 09:30-10:00, this session was scheduled to come directly after another session (There's no way to set a buffer time between sessions, which I've recently contacted italki about to maybe implement in a future update) anwyay, I contacted this person to let them know that if they wanted this time slot, to please understand that I will need a minute or two to get to the class after my previous one. They said it was fine.Before I accepted this person's request, I noticed that they had filled out my contact form, I had missed this! And upon reading it I soon realized that this conversational session was being booked for a mother's 10 year old son this time! I quickly went back to the chat to apologize to the mother, and pointed out that in my session description I made it clear that I don't teach children, to which she replied: "Sorry to hear about this. We looked a lot of videos, but the only person, he wanted to communicate with, was You. So we would appreciate a lot if You could make a test lesson with my son. The most important thing for him is to practise his English in conversation further. Thanks in advance!!"Awwe man, I felt so bad, and I didn't want to let the kid down... He wanted to communicate with me out of all the videos they searched?! How can you pass that up!? So I accepted the session and then I started looking into ways on how to teach children around this age, I watched as many italki videos on Youtube as I could where children were being taught English but they weren't specifically conversational based sessions! Which is a problem... I soon came across something called TPRS, but it was too late to get a feel for it....When it came time for the session the mother sat in the very back of the room on her phone texting while her son and I had our first session. I asked him to introduce himself etc. then we eventually did the same thing I did with the 8 year old. We went back and forth going through a scirpted conversation, but this time, I did something a little different, at the end of the conversation I'd ask the kid really silly questions about the conversation we just had, which he seemed to really appreciate. In the end, it turned out really well and he said he had fun and wanted to do another session, and the mother has since booked another session for him with me, and so has the other kid's mother...So now I'm up here holding English conversations with two children, and I could really use some tips or advice on this! If there are any italki teachers out there who have the free time and more experience that could help me with my conversational sessions with children, that would be so awesome, and I'd greatly appreciate it! Just direct message me! Please be kind.Thanks for your time!August 5, 202033
- What's the best strategy to learn new vocabulary by reading books?I mean, should I pause the reading to search the unknown words in a dictionary or should I mark the words and search the meaning later?If I read 20 pages and I find 50 unknowns words, how do I know which of them are worth learning?What do you do?0 votedAugust 18, 20190
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