I'm a private freelance American English Teacher & Tutor at coffee shops in Q.1, TP.HCM. Tuition: negotiable
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People always ask me how much is the fee for learning English. That
question is very hard to answer because I always end up offending people
if I go too high or low. For example, I suggested a higher price here
which led to a public outcry automatically. I could say to say people a
number like $100 per hour. However, people are going to misunderstand
what I mean by that
Jo Arnold:
Ja English:
TP.HCM. If you are reading this, you might be misreading it. Most
people misread what I write. People misinterpret what I write. Even
native English speakers misunderstand me. People jump to conclusions and
to deductions and assumptions and associations and implications and
they read between the lines and read into things some things that are
not really there.
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What I wrote here is an example of how easy
it is for people to misunderstand things in English. I did not say that I
charge $100 per hour. I wrote that "I say $100." Now, that is not a
requirement and it is not an exact demand. Well, it can be a demand, but
people can barter to bring down the price and I also teach for free.
People who know me knows that I negotiate prices with people.
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People are prone to fighting and to misunderstandings like this one.
This is a perfect example of how people are pretty arrogant, ignorant,
blind, and too quick to assume, imply, judge, and to jump to conclusions
and logic without sufficient evidence and data that can help them
understand what is really going on.
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I did not say that I get
$100. That would be different. I did not say that I will not teach for
less than $100. You need to know that I do not get $100. Sometimes, I
might get $5 per hour if I am lucky. However, education is still
priceless and some teacher are paid as high as $30 per hour or more.
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What I wrote was in order to persuade people towards my value. However,
ti did not really work. instead, people decided to beat me up and to
tell me that I have no value and that I am a horrible person. If I say
that I teach for free, then I get in trouble. When I say that I teach
for a very high price, then people hate me for that as well. I pretty
much get attacked from both extremes from different people no matter
what I do.
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People need to think about what teachers and tutors do in real life
instead of only thinking about what they think I said. I did not say
that people have to give me a certain amount. I used the word "Say"
which is very casual and very general it can be flexible in the meanings
that you give to that word "Say." You need to see that "Say" is not in
the past tense of "Said" for a reason. That reason is to invoke an idea
that is ongoing and in a world of like utopia or something like that
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However, people are still misunderstanding me for different reasons and
to different extremes, mostly due to their inability to understand
English enough: they do not see what I am writing here
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