As a student on italki, have you been chatting using Skype messages with your tutors or teachers outside the scheduled time for studying? (and vice versa?)
Don't you think that starting from the point that learning languages envolves money, we actually make boundaries and limits to that learning?
In a way that, in my case for instance, most of my tutors and teacher are all the time online on Skype but don't often answer to my messages.
So if I want to chat a little bit, I send messages but don't get any answer.
During our lessons which last most of the time exactly 60 minutes and 0 seconds, my tutors and teachers help me and they give the best but after that time, it's like we don't know each other.
Don't you think that a real teacher is someone who is more than a simple teacher?
Someone that can give you support through emails?
Someone that would be happy to have a little chat with you outside the classes?
Someone that worries about you as a person?
Someone that teachers you more about life than about languages?
Since language remains only a tool, through which one can transmit the real message of life.
What kind of tutor or teacher are you on italki?
Are you that teacher who is seeking for having more students and more money?
Or are you a teacher who looks forward giving something (which is beyond language lessons) to his/her students?
Are you both?
And what do you think about the role of a teacher or a tutor on italki and outside of it?
Do you develop special relationship with your students? Lifetime friendship for instance?
Or do you actually see and talk with each other only in the 60 minutes scheduled at italki?
