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In my previous post about how to choose a suitable teacher/tutor on italki, I’ve said that you need to have a certain goal in your head to achieve, right?

✨ GOALS ✨

So for me it looks like this:
I knew I wanted to go through a textbook with someone
I knew I wanted to learn how to talk about news
I knew I wanted to learn how to open my mouth more because my speaking sucks.

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✨ How do my lessons look like? ✨

Textbook lessons
BEFORE LESSON
I have homework to do (each lesson I need to write an essay - with each essay they are getting harder lol)
before the lesson I check all of the new words, I try to learn them, create new sentences with them
I try to understand grammar by myself
I do all exercises in the textbook

DURING LESSON
at the beginning of class I read my homework and we talk about my mistakes
later I read at loud the text (to work on my tones and pronunciation, reading flow)
after I finish reading the text, I talk with the tutor this text (do I understand, I try to summarise it in Chinese and answer some questions)
we go through exercises - she tells me what kind of mistakes I made
if I don’t understand grammar - I ask for help and we work on it

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News lessons

BEFORE LESSON
I got the news/article few days before the lesson, so I can work on it
I read it, find new words and write them down
if there are things I can not find in the dictionary or they are too hard to understand - I colour the text

(currently news/articles are based on my interest)

DURING LESSON
at the beginning I talk about all my questions and doubts
later - we simply talk about the news (the teacher is preparing the questions or tasks for me to do - each time different, depends on the topic)

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Speaking lessons
I simply got some topics I want to talk with someone in Chinese and I ask 1-2 days before “can we talk about (traveling/photography/fashion)” and we simply talk about the topic I choose

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Chinese studygram (click)
Japanese studygram (click) 

Korean studies

rinkodesu:

Whenever I mention my online language lessons, I get tons of questions from people about how to choose the right tutor and how to make the most out of a lesson. Here are my tips!

YouTube polyglot Lindie Botes gives 7 tips for choosing the right language tutor and having successful online lessons. She talks about her experiences with iTalki, but the tips would be useful for any other one-on-one language tutoring service.