Ruth Stackhouse - Language Instructor Coach

Exciting opportunity to learn how to start your own tutoring business and get hired online. Seats are limited. DM us for registration and more info.

February, 2024

We are gearing up for another training course. If you have any questions about finding work teaching a language online or in some other capacity, please feel free to contact us! ☺️

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Take advantage of our upcoming 4.5 day course March 6-10, which will be taught 8:00 am - 4:30 pm; Greenwich Mean Time. Alternatively, you can also become a TESOL Certified Teacher by taking our course in modular form at your own pace (9 sessions), or combine attendance at one of our live courses with private training sessions. After taking the course, we also offer our assistance to help you go through the hiring process or get started with private students. We will continue to work with you to get you up and running as a language instructor. You will use our online booking system to schedule sessions with either Jordan or Ruth. Our goal is to help you get started either working online or at a brick and mortar school as soon as possible. Let’s do this!

After watching the Netflix movie, True Spirit,” we have been thinking a lot about how life can give us many “knockdowns,” but how developing qualities such as courage, endurance, determination and resilience is so important to maintain our balance.
🌊⛵️Yes, sailing through stormy seas is already a tried-and-true analogy for life, but still worth taking a moment to meditate on. One of our favourite lines from the movie, when she gets stuck without wind for a week is: “The truth is that living your dream is hard… I’m not always fine, strong or fearless. I’m often terrified and I doubt myself, I think a lot about giving up, but that’s okay.” Well, Jessica didn’t give up and she learned so much from her experience, that she now shares with others as a motivational speaker.
☀️Whatever your “dream” is and whether you are currently reaching your big goals or still working towards smaller goals, Don’t Give Up! Yes, living your dream is hard but would you have it any other way? What lessons are you learning that you can share with others? And those of us who have many years of experience, “living the dream,” let’s not make it sound like it’s easy, because it’s not. Rather, let’s always remember what gets us through those tough times and what we might have done differently and be generous in sharing our experiences with others.

Picture credit: Brett Costello

Check out our explanation, discussion, and demonstration of how to use the CLIL method to teach any language. See our blog post at lexica.world/blog

Are you under the age of 35, and interested in working as an English Language Assistant in France or many other countries from October, 2023 until April, 2024?

Now is the time to apply!

You must be completely fluent in English, have taken a CELTA or TEFL/TESOL Certification course, and have 2 years’ teaching experience. (OR have finished 2 years in an undergraduate degree, OR one year of study in a further education institution/college) and have B1 level French. (For France)

You will work between 12 hours a week (sometimes with the option to add up to six more hours) and earn about 1000$ euros a month. (Before tax)

If you do not have a French residency or EU passport, once you are invited, you will apply for a “Long Stay” visa.

There are about 500 posts available just in France alone, application is now open, and you can choose from 3 different regions, including “Outre-Mer” Overseas France - such as French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte, Réunion, etc. 🌊🏖️How cool would that be??

If you choose France, “Outre-Mer” your salary will be approximately 40% higher, as the cost of living is higher than mainland France.

For more info, please go to www.britishcouncil.org and look at their study/work abroad pages. Or go to www.france-education-international.fr

Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Canada
Germany, Italy, Latin America, Spain,
Switzerland, Hong Kong, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico ——

All have similar programs!!

STILL time to sign up for our next class! It will be taught on India time, 8:00 am - 4:30 pm Monday - Friday, but Friday we finish early. If, due to time zone issues or other obligations you cannot attend the whole day, we can teach you the modules that you missed on a private basis after the course. Also, for those who are doing volunteer work, or are residing India, we offer you a 100$ discount if two or more friends/family members take the course together. Just DM us for the coupon code. 😀

If you have taken our course before and would like to join us again, please contact us regarding our reduced refresher course prices.

It’s going to be a fantastic week!

Hey, is this the right pronunciation??

Remember all those phrase books we used to buy when we would go on holidays to faraway places? Did you end up using them or did they get forgotten in the bottom of your backpack?

Well, if you are a language tutor, why not help your students make their own “phrase books?”

📚 🖊 We highly recommend that you encourage your students to have an old-school notebook or a note-taking app on their mobile device where they can jot down all the useful phrases and expressions that you will teach them.

👉🏻Always strive to tailor these phrases to the specific needs of your students.

🗣If you are teaching yourself a language, you will definitely want to make your own “phrase book,” and have it handy at all times.

Feel free to write out words how they sound to you in your mother tongue, and in any characters or alphabet that you prefer. If you are learning a language with a different alphabet than your own, then it will help you to remember how to pronounce foreign looking words. Of course, your ultimate goal is to learn how to read and pronounce the characters of the new alphabet you are learning, but until then you will need a little assistance. ☺️

What do you do to help your students pronounce difficult words?

🤩 We can’t tell you how much fun we had last week with this AMAZING group of language tutors!! They sharpened their teaching skills in their teaching practices by teaching/learning Norwegian, French, Polish, Hindi, Spanish and other languages. We are so happy for you and proud of you for your hard work. We send you a big, huge CONGRATULATIONS! 🎉

👉 If you are thinking of learning how to be a language tutor, please DM us for more information or visit our website by clicking the link in our bio.

🆕✅ Also announcing our brand new service of Learn-at-your-own-pace classes. For those who cannot attend all 5 days of this course in one go- we will now be teaching it in segments. Contact us for more details.

😲Just realized we never posted a picture of class that we taught on Romania time back in July!! Where has the time gone??

📎 ⚡️It was a busy week and everyone worked hard to master new teaching skills - you all did absolutely fantastic - 👏 We really enjoyed spending time with you all!😊

One member of the class joined us from the beautiful country of Georgia 🏔 (not the state!) and it was wonderful to hear all about her experiences there as well.

Are you thinking of learning how to support yourself by teaching language classes online? Join us this November 21-25 for our next class which will be taught on INDIA TIME. 🕚

👉🏻See our website for the coupon code which gives you 70% of the course enrolment if you live in India.