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Get Paid to Speak English Online By Christine Durst & Michael Haaren June 14, 2012 If you speak fluent English, have a computer and would like to work from home, you’re in luck. With the spread of Skype and similar tools and the growing demand for conversational English, companies are hiring home-based workers to meet the need. Here’s the story. ASIAN STUDENTS WANT TO PRACTICE ENGLISH In the pre-Web days, if you were an adult learning English in a foreign country and you needed to practice, you’d have to seek out native speakers and engage them in conversation. This wasn’t always easy. If you lived outside Beijing or Seoul, or off the beaten path in Japan, you might never see an American up close, if you spotted one at all. Elsewhere, accosting American tourists dressed in flowery shirts and muumuus, wearing zinc oxide on their noses beneath odd headgear and laughing like King Kong could be a terrifying experience, even on the best of days. Enter the Web. Here’s a sampling of companies hiring home-based English conversationalists. Pay rates range from $7.50 an hour to much higher fees if you go into business for yourself and market directly to foreign businesspeople. -- Hello English, Inc., at http://www.onlineeikaiwa.jp/eslteachers.html. Per the site, the company hires “Skype Native English Conversation Tutors,” and most of the students are from Japan. “Must be Skype literate with a reliable computer, good internet connection and a webcamera…. Give classes when you want.” Classes are 55 minutes long. -- ISpeakuspeak, aka ISUS, at http://jobs.ispeakuspeak.com. According to the site, “ISUS employs a staff of more than 100 online trainers,” and is expanding rapidly. Student ages range from 25 to 55, with pre-intermediate to advanced English skills. “Trainers conduct telephone classes from their homes via telephone or VoIP and send feedback to students via the ISUS platform. Their responsibilities involve giving classes through discussions, role-plays and, when appropriate, monitoring student's performance on the GlobalEnglish platform.” The site also notes that “ESL or other teaching experience is generally expected,” though “exceptions are made and thorough training is provided before formal ISUS certification. We are most interested in enthusiastic, motivated individuals who are passionate and committed to helping people learn.” -- Welanguage International, at http://welanguage.com. “As our English tutor at We Language, your job is to teach Chinese people to speak English. Your students are in China and you'll teach via the internet. The students could be business people, college students, high school students, middle school student or elementary school students. We'll have textbooks for you to use.” Per the site, the company also offers free Chinese training to those unfamiliar with the language. When this is completed, “you will teach simulated classes under supervision and you need to come to our office [in Buffalo, NY] to work. After the training period, you can choose to work from home.” ---- Christine Durst and Michael Haaren are leaders in the work-at-home movement and advocates of de-rat-raced living. Their latest book is Work at Home Now, a guide to finding home-based jobs. They offer additional guidance on finding home-based work at www.RatRaceRebellion.com. To read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com. COPYRIGHT 2012 BY STAFFCENTRIX, DISTRIBUTED BY CREATORS.COM |
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