i had a really quick video idea
and i want to say a couple of things
before i actually started the video
number one
i want to try to edit this video as
little as possible just because there's
a problem with the camera audio
and i'm actually using this recorder to
record the audio and then i have to lay
it over the video
so if i had make less edits it's less
effort for me to you know edit the video
or do the video post
production cool so um you'll see that my
uh it's a bit of a mess in the
background like my usual flag is in
there and stuff and this is because i'm
packing actually i'm about to go home
um at the end of the semester but i
posted a twitter thread
a couple of days ago and it's been doing
really well
on twitter so i thought maybe let me
share this information
on youtube as well if people i think
people might need it
you know what i mean so i was like okay
let me just share this on youtube as
well so that's what i'm doing right now
this video is
going to be about me um teaching english
online without any sort of
qualifications
and basically how i made 2500 rand in
one
week and how you can do it too i would
like you to stick to the end of the
video
for more specific tips on how i managed
to do that
and more like general tips um when you
actually
when your application gets accepted
where to go from there
to make as much money as you can if
that's what
you want to do you know and for me that
was like the main reason why i started
teaching english online i don't really
have
like a passion for teaching or passion
for english i was just like
i'm a broke university student i need
money
this is the way i can make money so
that's what i did
cool let us move on to the actual video
now the actual important information one
i have heard i had heard of these
different web
websites and like apps that you could
use to teach english online i heard
about it last year
when i was in brazil and i was looking
to make money but
wasn't really serious about it at that
point because i wasn't at
university yet i wasn't a student i
didn't realize that
you know i'm actually gonna need to save
money to be able to do things
um so i didn't really take it seriously
um
and then when i came to university
obviously like i said i started taking
it seriously
um not even actually i
applied for this my application
managed to get through in one week so
when i finished exams
that's when i started applying and i
applied to three different places so i
applied to cambly
which is a english teaching website i
applied to prepley
and italki italki is where i teach right
now so
cambly didn't accept my no
not they didn't accept but my
application is still under review after
like a month
and preppy i had they asked me to change
my video and then they're going to
review my application again so that's
also still in progress
italki is the only one only company
which is straightforward and just
accepted me so
basically i'm gonna see if i can lay
over the screen
what i'm talking about so it can be easy
for you to follow
this is how you apply to italki you go
to italki and then
everyone on italki has two accounts a
student account and a teacher account
so when you are applying to be a teacher
for the first time you have to make
a student account first
and then afterwards you can apply to be
a teacher
which is what i did i've actually also
had some lessons on there because i'm
learning portuguese but
if you're new to my channel i'm i was in
brazil i learned portuguese and now i'm
continuing with that journey so i
had a couple of classes with some
teachers which were really good okay
cool apply to um you set up your profile
you have to make an intro video the
video has to be less than three minutes
i believe
and you can basically include anything
but the most important thing is that you
need to include
the language you want to teach so there
is like a
variety of languages oh there are
wow not me being an english teacher not
knowing how to speak english
there are a variety of different
languages
that you can teach so even south african
languages like asa zulus and so on i
like they're all on there
but your video has to include the
languages that you want
to teach so if you want to teach to
juana and english
you can teach more than one language so
the video has to be in english
and situana and you can put subtitles in
english that really helps you can also
like put um i don't know nice graphics
on your video like background music and
stuff like that just to make it nicer
and then you have to put a picture has
to be a professional picture
um and in i read their like
uh booklet that they give you when
you're applying and they were like
um no facial piercings or whatever so i
took out my septum piercing when i was
doing the video and the pictures but
then i teach with it
on like because they can't see me in the
classroom
but also like the students like don't
care also the thing
about it is that it's a it's a free
platform
for teachers and students so as a
teacher you can set your own rates
you can set your own schedule which is
so so
nice um but i guess the less nice thing
about it is that you don't have
any set lessons so you have to make your
own lessons
but uh huge amounts of resources
available
to you on the internet for free if you
want to teach english as a second
language
that's what i mainly use um
yeah i think that is it about the
details
but then the other important factor of
course are the students that you're
teaching
so most of the students are i would say
intermediate
english speakers they're learning how to
speak english and they want to practice
their conversation so you can have one
hour lessons
30 minute lessons or 45 minute lessons
and you have to set a price for each one
and then you also have something called
trial
lessons
sorry about that as i said
as i said this video is very uh
unorganized very chaotic not
usually what i do um
so um you set your
your class times uh 60 minutes 30
minutes 45 minutes there's also uh
90 minutes which i've never done because
the thing is when students
are looking to have a conversation you
as a teacher it's kind of your job
to um like upkeep the conversation so
you have to keep the conversation going
you know what i mean so i think would be
pretty difficult to do to do that for 90
minutes
but you know 30 minutes is doable an
hour is mostly doable so
just speak about whatever they want to
speak about
whatever topics you can bring up but
also some of the students
would be really specific so when a
student books with me i only send them a
message and ask them you know what do
you want out of this lesson
what's your english level what do you
want to speak about and some of them
would say to me that oh i wanted to
focus more on grammar more on
pronunciation like sentence structure or
something like that
so then i would you know find a lesson
for that and
go through that i like to do
comprehensions i think comprehension is
also really good
okay that is basically it
like i think i sent the most important
information
but i will link my twitter thread like
down below in case i forgot
to actually say anything in this video
but this has been the last moment of the
video where i tell you the tips on how i
made
so much money so basically
i watch a lot of youtube videos and most
of most of them
recommended that if you are just
starting out
you have to put your prices as low as
possible
and because that builds your your
credibility
right so on italki students can review
you and they give you a certain amount
of stars based on how the lesson was um
and then they can also like write a
review for you
and it also shows how many students you
you have had so obviously when a student
is looking for a teacher
and they're scrolling and you have like
you have had 100 students and another
teacher has had seven students
they're more likely to go with the
teacher that has more students so at the
beginning it's more about you getting
experience
and like trying to get as many students
to take lessons with you as possible so
i set
my price is ridiculously low i the the
minimum
you can set try lessons for is one us
dollar and then the
the minimum you can set normal lessons
for is five dollars
so i set my try lessons for one dollar
and i set
my actual lessons for
five dollars i think um i've increased
my prices now of course because i have
more students but
yeah and then the second biggest tip is
to keep your schedule open
for 24 hours so as i said i had finished
exams when i started doing this so i
knew that
i had literally nothing to do like my
schedule was open
and i knew that i was just going to
dedicate myself to
doing lessons which was it was difficult
because there were times or days when i
had lessons at 2am in the morning
4am like i remember
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i don't know
i hate this intercom i really do um but
see now i've lost my train of thought um
okay i was thinking about opening your
um your schedule for 24 hours every
single day
that you have available also because in
the first 21 days
italki kind of boosts your profile
because you're a new teacher
so you want to get as many students as
you can during that time
so that uh in the future in case italki
decides to not like you the algorithm
decides to not like you you can already
have
students that you've made that first
contact with which is very
important so yeah that is that is the
other tip keep your schedule open i had
days when i was sleeping like in shifts
bro
i would have a lesson at 2 a.m and then
i'll sleep for three hours
wake up again have another lesson at
like 6 a.m or 5 a.m
sleep for a couple of hours wake up
again have a lesson at 8 a.m
it is crazy but whatever and then
the third tip um is to keep your
instant bookings on so when you when
your student books with you on italki
and you as the teacher can you have to
accept
the booking or you can reject the
booking but if you keep
instant bookings on it means that you
don't get a choice and if the students
request you you just have to do that
lesson
um oh the fourth tip is to
uh keep your booking window so you can
make your booking window either two
hours
six hours or twelve hours put it maybe
under six hours
because i think two hours is a bit much
this basically means that
um this is the time frame in which
students can book lessons so they can
book lessons 12 hours before they
actually have it
six hours before they actually have it
or two hours if you made it two hours it
means that you constantly
be having to check if anyone has booked
i mean if you're that dedicated go ahead
but for me personally i just like to
i'd like to plan my day ahead so i would
see that okay
12 hours ago the student booked this and
this and this and i wouldn't get like
any surprises
with someone who just booked literally
two hours ago so that's how i did it i
made my top hours
um and then yeah i increased my prices
to
seven dollars per hour i actually think
i'm on seven point five dollars now an
hour and then i increase my trials
to 2.5 dollars per hour and then
obviously when you convert it into runs
it becomes much more money and they pay
with paypal
as well so i did have a paypal account
previously
but i haven't gotten my money yet so
how they pay is they they pay in two
cycles per month so from the first of
the month to the 15th from the 16th
to the 30th or the 31st of the month
so i just requested my money yesterday
and it will probably get to me at the
beginning of
august or the end of july so yeah if
that
that money gets to me i will update the
twitter thread i probably won't make
another video just to say hi i got the
money
but i'll update the twitter thread um
oh yeah my twitter is also on private
now so i might not
link my account below but um i don't
know
i'll figure it out i'll do something
maybe i'll just take it off private for
a while
um just so you guys can get all the
information but yeah this is
that that's it i mean this is a great
way to make money
also i did mention i don't have any
qualifications i'm just a university
students
university student so you don't need any
qualifications because you can basically
be
a community tutor or a professional
teacher and i am a community
uh tutor so i do need qualifications but
if you want to be a professional tutor
you need like a tfl or what's the other
one tessel certificate but i don't have
any of that
i just know how to speak english um yeah
that is it that's the video i hope this
has been helpful for you
if you have any questions please put
them in the comments down below and i'll
make sure
to respond to everyone um
i don't know when this video is going to
go up but hopefully really soon because
i mean i am like mind blown i don't know
why i didn't do this sooner because
if i knew how much money i could make i
could have done this sooner
so i'm trying to spread the information
trying to get you guys to get your money
up besties like let's get our money up
period thank you so much for watching um
yeah i guess i'll see you
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