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Tutors for lernu Courses

de SPX, 2015-junio-19

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SPX (Montri la profilon) 2015-junio-19 01:44:37

Long story short, I first got interested in Esperanto a few years ago. I studied a bit but never got very far and eventually just set the whole thing aside to tackle another day. Well, that day has come and I'm basically starting over from scratch.

I'm planning on going through some of the courses here on lernu, specifically the correspondence courses, and I was wondering if anyone here has suggestions for tutors. There are several to choose from so I was just wondering if anyone here has had a particularly good experience with any specific tutor or, if any tutors are reading this, are any of you especially eager to help a newbie find his footing?

Any help would be appreciated.

erinja (Montri la profilon) 2015-junio-19 03:06:05

If you look at the list of the tutors on the tutoring page (versus within the course), you can see the average response time of each tutor. That can help you ensure you don't get someone who takes a long time to respond.

SPX (Montri la profilon) 2015-junio-19 03:23:56

erinja:If you look at the list of the tutors on the tutoring page (versus within the course), you can see the average response time of each tutor. That can help you ensure you don't get someone who takes a long time to respond.
I did see that.

I guess I'm just trying to figure out who really wants to be doing it, has the time to do it, etc. It seems that some may necessarily be more busy than others and not give as detailed feedback, will not be as receptive to follow-up questions, etc. If you see what I'm saying.

erinja (Montri la profilon) 2015-junio-19 11:52:12

I am not familiar with the work of some of the newer tutors, but of the tutors who have been around a while, I have frequently recommended tommjames and russ.

SPX (Montri la profilon) 2015-junio-19 18:25:02

erinja:I am not familiar with the work of some of the newer tutors, but of the tutors who have been around a while, I have frequently recommended tommjames and russ.
Cool, thanks for the info.

erinja (Montri la profilon) 2015-junio-19 18:39:31

Tip: tutors like it if you write more than the bare minimum, even if that means that you make more mistakes, because you learn more by writing more, and you learn more by writing in complete sentences than giving the answer only, outside of a sentence.

So if the question is "Tell about your favorite vacation", it's better to write a short paragraph about your vacation than to write "to Paris", and your tutor will appreciate your efforts to learn, even though it is more work to correct! Feel free to ask your tutor questions about the corrections or questions about grammatical concepts that you are finding difficult. They have volunteered because they genuinely want to help beginners, so you should take them up on it!

SPX (Montri la profilon) 2015-junio-19 20:24:36

erinja:Tip: tutors like it if you write more than the bare minimum, even if that means that you make more mistakes, because you learn more by writing more, and you learn more by writing in complete sentences than giving the answer only, outside of a sentence.

So if the question is "Tell about your favorite vacation", it's better to write a short paragraph about your vacation than to write "to Paris", and your tutor will appreciate your efforts to learn, even though it is more work to correct! Feel free to ask your tutor questions about the corrections or questions about grammatical concepts that you are finding difficult. They have volunteered because they genuinely want to help beginners, so you should take them up on it!
Awesome, I will keep that in mind. That's what I'm looking for, someone who is really eager to help. Sometimes even volunteers sign up for things with the best intentions and then realize that it's more work than they expected. I don't want to feel like I'm bothering them or to receive only minimal feedback because they're too busy.

erinja (Montri la profilon) 2015-junio-19 22:12:52

Keep in mind that there's nothing tying you to a given tutor, so you can always feel free to switch to someone else if you aren't happy with the feedback you're getting from the one you started with. No one will be offended.

But rule of thumb, I think that the faster the tutor's response time, the more eager they are to help. If a tutor's average response time is a week, you can tell how eager they are to help -- so eager that they only bother checking their course correspondence once a week???

Vestitor (Montri la profilon) 2015-junio-21 01:23:41

I've been corresponding with tommjames as a tutor (intermittently I must add!) and I find that he is very prompt and helpful. Even when I left months between lessons.

jdawdy (Montri la profilon) 2015-junio-21 04:35:18

Do the lernu tutors only do the courses, or can they also correct my writing? What I am really looking for is something like polyglotclub.com, which has an excellent interface for correcting text, but unfortunately doesn't have a lot of Esperantists using it regularly.

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