ESL (English as a Second Language) Tutors Needed

Somewhere, not far from where you are right now, is someone who needs you to be an ESL tutor.

Any speaker of native American English can do it.

Actually, most speakers of English can do this sort of work, whether they are a native speaker or not.

some of the English speakers with very heavy accents might want to disqualify themselves. If you speak American with an American accent it is good, since many people want to learn from an American.

I started doing this sort of thing just for friendship. The beginnings were rather serendipitous--I kept meeting more and more foreigners with mediocre spoken colloquial english. I could understand them, more or less, and agreed to meet them sometime so they could practice their English.

The exact techniques vary--sometimes i do diagnostic work, sometimes just talk. Sometimes I tape record the conversation and give it to the other person at the end of the hour.

Some people have a very good idea what they want help with, others have vague feelings of dis-satisfaction. They know they have trouble communicating what they want to say. Often they hear and understand others better than others seem to hear and understand them.