Travel Abroad and Teach your Mother Tongue

Zeeshan Riaz
3 min readMar 16, 2018

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Teaching your mother tongue to people abroad can easily be a pleasing experience. In today’s world, being bilingual or multilingual boosts your personal growth and also helps you get jobs abroad. Nowadays, one of the most popular languages people like to learn is English. People are looking for qualified English tutors who can help them boost their personal English skills swiftly. Some are ready to pay a premium for private English tuition.

So far, TUTOROO appears to be the best marketplace to help students and private tutors connect for in-person lessons. No matter what language you speak, TUTOROO gives you a chance to teach your mother tongue. The startup has a strong international presence and now operates in more than 15 cities: Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Jakarta, Manila, Paris, Auckland, Dubai, Abu Dhabi… the TUTOROO Community of tutors keeps growing worldwide. They are calling foreigners in each of the cities they operate to teach their mother tongue to locals and get paid in return for their time spent teaching privately.

TUTOROO finds them clients willing to practice their skills in various languages; some people are looking for English lessons while others are looking to learn French or Spanish. They meet every single need by connecting respective language speakers to people looking for a private tutor. Tutors can choose flexible tutoring timings and students can also schedule their lessons according to their preferences, location and budget. Lessons fares are competitive as most TUTOROO tutors are not professional teachers. It’s a win-win for both students and tutors.

If you are a native English speaker, TUTOROO will find you students rapidly, wherever you are, and gives you the opportunity to teach English to nearby students — as a part-time job. If you speak any other language such as Arabic, Japanese, Italian or Korean, the platform will also help you connect with people willing to pay you to spend time with you and practice their conversational skills in your native tongue.

The English language is in huge demand these days, everywhere across the world. Universities, from everywhere, focus on teaching students effective business English language skills to help them in their careers. They are hiring English language speakers as it gives confidence to the students and helps in improving their language skills in a short period of time.

Many students who want to study overseas are sometimes stopped by the language barrier. They look for universities in Japan or in Arabic speaking countries where speaking the local language is a problem. Therefore TUTOROO connects them to private tutors who can in these respective cases give Japanese lessons and help others learn Arabic in Dubai for example.

Learning a new language improves your brain functionality and your negotiating skills! Jobs these days require students to learn certain languages like Japanese, Spanish and Korean so there is a big market for it. By travelling abroad and using the platform of TUTOROO to teach your mother tongue to students not only removes the language barrier but also creates friendly relationships between the people living in these countries.

Many students from Singapore travel to Korea but face difficulty speaking Korean. There are not many schools and centers in Singapore that offer Korean lessons. Therefore, native Korean speakers who travel to Singapore can give Korean classes in Singapore thanks to TUTOROO.

French and Spanish are two other important languages to get the best job opportunities as well as for improved communication worldwide. French is set to be the most commonly spoken language by 2050. If you are travelling to Sydney and you know the French language, TUTOROO also gives you an opportunity to teach French in Sydney. After English, Spanish is the most spoken language in the United States and many jobs are requiring students to learn it before applying for certain jobs. Therefore, native Spanish speakers can also become TUTOROO Spanish tutors thanks to the platform!

So, if you trust you can teach your mother tongue while travelling abroad, or give private English lessons to nearby students, don’t hesitate to sign up at www.tutoroo.co. Their team will be fairly responsive and will contact you back shortly through Whats App to start connecting you with students.

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