I've tried a few teachers, and so far all are great! So far, I've had 1 trial with angela, 1 trial with amy (and another lesson upcoming!), and 3 lessons with Seulgi. Seulgi is particularly awesome!! I tried Amy and Angela and they are great too. I had loads of fun looking through all the teacher reviews on italki and choosing which ones I wanted to spend my trial classes on (you only get 3 trial classes in total).
So not to belabor the point but these are the good things about italki so far (btw, they sadly aren't paying me to say this HAHA, i really do like it hence this unbiased review)
- It's really convenient - you can just sit down at your comp, put your headphones in and start the class!
- You can reschedule the class if need be and you work it out with the teacher before hand
- It depends on your teacher but so far my teachers have been writing down vocab in the skype chats so I've learnt alot of new vocab!
- Some teachers have google docs with grammar points and homework too - that's really awesome! (Note: I purposely searched out such teachers cos I like stuff like that)
- It's relatively cheap and inexpensive (again depends from teacher to teacher.) 10 usd/ per class is totally worth it for all the lesson plans and homework my teacher gives me. Trial lessons were around 5-9 usd and actual lessons seem to be around 10-22 usd. Ok 22 USD seems a little expensive. Haha. But i'll check it out to see which teachers I stick with.
You can also make friends and get language partners. Yeah some people seem sketchy so I just ignore them. Today I made a Korean friend with a Korean uni student around my age
I learnt the following new vocab just through the chat with my new korean friend:
되는대로 - randomly
동기 부여 - motivation
기본적 - basics/ fundamentals
It's a little funny chatting in korean about how we learn french and german, but still great to learn all this new vocab.
Next post would be a review of duolingo! Actually it's more for duolingo french. I've only played with duolingo korean a little bit haha.
