Speaking of Japanese lessons, I got this email from Koichi of www.tofugu.com. Might be something worth checking out.
Right now, I’m also working at eduFire.com (a website that does live learning via webcam…super slick), and I wanted to tell you about something that I thought could be interesting for your readers. Of course, that’s something you would have to decide on your own
eduFire is ramping up to a subscription program for it’s Japanese classes section. This would mean that for a certain amount of money each month (we’re estimating $30-$40, but this hasn’t been decided yet), users can attend as many group lessons as they want, with up to 99 students per class. I’ve taught a few lessons, and they’re so much fun, but people learn a lot too.
For the next month or so, though, the Japanese teachers who have signed up for our site are teaching Japanese Classes, and eduFire is paying them, which means all the Japanese classes are 100% free for students. There are currently 39 classes available, many of which repeat (so there’s really a ton more than that).
This is a list of our lessons. I’ve tried to sort it in a way that’s pretty easy to understand.
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pxL2v1DSLsjKjj4MeK04VTgI also wrote an article about it, here:
http://www.tofugu.com/2008/12/03/39-free-japanese-courses-you-should-sign-up-for/Well, that’s my spiel. Of course, it’s totally up to you as to whether you think your readers might find it interesting. I think it’s a ridiculously good deal, and am sooo excited.
Personally, I don’t feel comfortable teaching online and would really prefer to meet face-to-face but if nobody around here is interested, I might have to take that route. I have a webcam so maybe it won’t be that bad. I’ll give Craig’s list a try.
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I hope you’ll continue posting here too, because I personally hate twitters.
If you want to meet in person, try the classifieds in a local newspaper. The internet is great when geography doesn’t matter, but if you want to reach a local audience in a specific area, newspapers are still better for that.
You’re right, the internet is less than ideal for finding locals. I’m not in any hurry though because I want to find partners I can work together with rather than go through a whole bunch of people and never know how far they get or how well the lessons worked.