How would you word an email canceling your tutor?

Question

I take a private lessons from an aquaintence for a foreign language, for fun. It's very expensive and after a year I can't even have a simple conversation - she is very young and apparently inexperienced. I've been wanting to quit for a couple of months now but every week never have the courage to tell her in person, feel the same callling her so I have to unfortunately resort to an email. Any ideas what I should write????

Answer 1

urm somthing like

i have enjoyed you teaching me but i can not aford anymore payment and i dont belive learning a language is somthing i want to do anymore , sorry to of wasted your time but u did help me.

Answer 2

Buy something that will take up a lot of time and say that your lessons know longer fit into your schedule. Such as archery

Answer 3

Tell her the truth you feel you are getting nowhere with it and have decided to give it a rest for the time being.

Answer 4

There is no point in saying something that will damage your relationship with this acquaintance. Be courteous and say as little as possible while given them a reason they can understand and that won't offend them.

People are usually understanding towards financial reasons as you cannot argue with that. Keep things professional and don't personalise it, but leave things open in case you should need to contact this person in the future or in case you come across them again, so things don't get awkward.

Here's an example of what I would say:

While I have appreciated your services for the past year, my budget does not allow me to continue tutoring lessons. As a result, I must unfortunately advise you that I no longer require your services at this time. With your permission I would like to keep your contact information, should me situation change in the future. Thank you for your understanding.

If she presses you for more, you can then go into detail and explain that you have not benefited from the tutoring as much as you had hoped, and that you appreciate all their help but feel that you have not gotten out of it what you were expecting. Personally though, I don't really see the point in mentioning this unless you are cornered and she insists on an explanation, as it may hurt her feelings and will not be helpful to her in any way. In time, she will gain experience.

EDIT: Yes I can see why you wouldn't want to use the financial argument.  In which case, it's best to either say it's a scheduling/transportation issue, or simply not provide a reason. Or you could just be honest and mention you're not satisfied with the results and that you still appreciate the help but that it's not having the desired effect.

Answer 5

Simply tell her that you can no longer afford her rate anymore and that you are frustrated with not being able to have a simple conversation.  It is necessary to take a break from your tutoring sessions.

Answer 6

To not hurt her fealings thank her and say you do not have the money to pay her, or you have lost interest and need a break from the subject.

Answer 7

Why not call her and tell her that your life has become very busy, so you feel you will no longer have time for her tutoring sessions.  Tell her that you loved having her as a tutor, and thank her for all her help.  A person can be nice, but why waste money on something that is clearly not working?

I wouldn't tell her that her teaching style necessarily is terrible.  If you cannot even grasp the vocab words, how is she ever going to teach you how to have conversations?

Answer 8

You owe her no explanations at all, you simply call her (emailing her is rude and tacky) and just say you cannot continue the lessons any longer. Period. Then say thank you and good bye. After one year at those prices and you are still unable to converse in the language, that's really bad and she should not be teaching anything.

Answer 9

I would probably do the following,

Dear (name here),

Firstly I would like to thank you for the time and effort you have spent teaching me (insert language here).

Unfortunately however, I am no longer going to be continuing lessons with you. It is due to a combination of finances, and I feel I have many other things in my life requireing my time - so I am unable to apply myself properyl to learning (inset language here).

If in the future I choose to re-learn the language, then you will be my first call!

Thank you,

**************************************...

Or somnething like that. That way you aren't pinning it to one specific reason and backing yourself into a corner, but you are justifying your decision.

It also makes her feel good about herself and not loose faith in teaching.

HTH!

Answer 10

I think you should intentionally word it as awful as you can.  Maybe go online and use one of those translators that never seem to get what you're saying right and put what you have to say in english then translate it to the language you're learning.  Copy & Paste that into your email and send it along.  When she reads how awful your dialect is, she'll have no choice to agree she's done a bad job.