hello everyone and welcome firstly let me ask you a question
are you considering teaching English online perhaps as an entirely new
profession perhaps as an additional income to supplement your existing
earnings or maybe even you're considering becoming a digital nomad and
travelling full-time while are being able to maintain a sustainable income
just like I've been doing for the last four years if any of these things apply
this video could be for you
so for existing subscribers hello everyone welcome back you may know that
I have been writing and designing teaching online on laughing he books for
some time now and finally they are available and probably you're coming to
this video because you want to know how to get them so you can check down in the
description below or in the pinned comment you can find various links down
there where you can purchase them I'm going to go into the ebooks in a bit
more detail later in this video but firstly for any of you that are new
welcome hello everyone and also just a bit about myself so I'm David I'm
originally from London in the UK and I've been travelling full times it's
late 2016 I've been teaching English online since late 2017 so about three
years and the thing I want to talk about first is the fact that there is there
seems to be rather a huge misconception in relation to teaching English online
and in the digital nomad community I hate using that word there is a lot of
coverage in relation to the fact that the only way to teach English online is
by a) having an American accent b) you have to have a bachelor's degree c) you have
to be employed by a Chinese company teaching children in China and three
things which are very important you know these companies generally provide you
with lesson material that you have to stick to the second thing is that it can
be quite rigid in terms of the hours that you can work it's not very flexible
in many cases in some it can be you generally have to work on Beijing time
and the third thing which is the most important thing you you're basically
paid a salary with these companies and that means that you don't really have
much flexibility around controlling your income that's where Italki comes in
so one of the common questions that I'm asked is what about teaching children in
China or people in China the fact is I don't really know because I have about
two and a half thousand lessons now in three years I've had about four students
in China that's it predominantly my students are in Russia Ukraine Poland
Belarus countries like that and generally they are b2 to c2 level so
upper intermediate to advanced level with our talk of you can of course teach
beginners you can of course teach children for me that's just my
preference and the same for many people if your
preference is teaching children or beginners or maybe you've got experience
in a classroom environment teaching those people that's brilliant
I admire you but for me teaching children is just not something I want to
do and in relation to the three points I mentioned one of the great benefits or
three of the great benefits of teaching online with Italki are the facts that
grammar right is the fact are the fact I don't know so firstly less material you
can produce your own lesson material design it create it in order to create
bespoke and unique material for your students secondly you are more flexible
so you can choose when you work you might want to work in the evenings you
might want to work in the mornings you might want to work at the weekends
that's fine you can make yourself available at those times of my talking
but the third thing is the thing that people are often surprised about when I
tell them you can determine your own pricing so you might want to say ten US
dollars twenty US dollars 40 US dollars depending on any speciality that
you might have so that's the great thing you're not limited in relation to your
pricing so on to the ebooks themselves so the first one is all about teaching
English online with Italki to adults okay and it's primarily for people that
haven't started on our talking before perhaps you're watching this because
you're researching which platform to use and you just want a bit more information
so this ebook goes into a lot of detail in relation to things such as your mind
sets or online teaching some of the differences that you can find between
online and classroom teaching how to put together your video introduction how to
do trial lessons it gives you an ideal structure that I use obviously it's
different for everyone in terms of trial lessons before during
and after lesson planning problems you may face etc etc and that ebook is
really useful for those of you that haven't got started yet and you're
looking for more information the second ebook is about lesson material okay this
one I think will be especially useful for those of you that have already
started on our talking maybe you've set up your profile you're just getting
started and you're thinking oh my god where do I start with lesser material
because it can be an absolute minefield I think I actually said that in the
because you know you you start off and you think I'm going to put together like
a lesson material catalog but you end up with documents all over the place and it
can just get very disorganized so having a 67 page ebook yep 67 pages with a
plethora of lesson material for you as a starting point emphasis on the word
starting point because you will add to it and also my lesson material ebook is
not an exhaustive list obviously there are plenty more a multitude more of topics
that you can add to it okay so those are the two ebooks and in terms of getting
hold of them okay this is the thing so currently at the time of filming this
video they are available on two platforms firstly as you'd expect Amazon
so if you want to read them on a Kindle Kindle Fire or even the Kindle app on
your smartphone or tablet you can download them from Amazon secondly the
other platform is Payhip which I absolutely love it's brilliant this is
for those of you that maybe you want to download them in PDF format you know I
think that's far more common I don't have a Kindle I read everything in PDF
format and the great thing about that website two great things actually I can
apply discounts to it so currently there is a 20% discount if you buy the first
one you then get 20% off the second one and vice versa there's also a thing on
there where you can share it on Facebook when you buy it and you get 25% off the
other great thing is that for anyone that uses that link that you share on
Facebook they also get 25% off so there are some great offers there at the
moment they there will be other platforms available in the near future
probably if you're watching this is six-month time there will be other links
down below the third option that you can use of course just send me an email I
can send you some dropbox links downloadable dropbox links and you can
pay me on paypal with those who just have to send me a screenshot on email
showing that you've done the payment and i'll send you that within 48 hours so
that's it really I hope that if you buy these ebooks they will be useful for you
and you know the things that are in the lesson metier
ebook particularly there's general topics IELTS topics c2 proficiency
business English you name it and also some bits there that you wouldn't really
expect generally to find in terms of teaching video topics from YouTube
things like that so take a look and I hope you find them useful thank you for
watching and I may do some more videos in the future about teaching online if
you would like that let me know down in the comments and if you do have any
questions about my talkie or in general teaching online or digital know about
life full time travel just let me know down in the comments I will endeavor to
reply so I'll see you next time have a lovely day catch you later