My spanish speaking neighbor wants me to help teach her english...HELP!?

Question

WHERE CAN I GET MATERIAL TO STUDY? I DONT FLUENTLY SPEAK SPANISH BUT I CAN CARRY ON A CONVERSATION...

I didn't ask for money but she insisting on paying me, what should I charge

HELP?

Answer 1

She doesn’t want "proper" English lessons, she wants conversational English.  Have her to your house or you go to hers.  Start in a common room, the kitchen for starters.  You can learn from each other.

Hold up a cup, say cup.  Then ask her how to say it in Spanish.  You can learn from each other and it would be a very fair trade.

You have a wonderful opportunity, just imagine the possibilities.  Maybe with time, swap recipes (Spanish\English lesson over the ingredients).

Enjoy it!

Answer 2

Get some of the elementary bilingual books. Your first words will be vocabulary words (anyway) and you can both start identifying things by name. After that, go to a used bookstore (Half Price Books, Alibri.com, etc) and look for ESL or Bilingual Ed books. You can try some older Spanish textbooks but the grammar may be a bit more difficult because the two languages aren't equivalent; however, you can teach each other simple phrases and sentences.

Don't worry-----have fun!

PS: Charging?? If you don't want to charge how about you "exchange" conversations in real life situations (you speak in one language, they speak in the other), like dinner conversations, talking at the grocery store, watching movies (simple to understand movies), reading, etc

Answer 3

If you aren't trained as a teacher, all you can do is work with her on vocabulary by holding conversations with her.  I, too, would refuse payment for that.  Since she is your neighbor,she shouldn't be having to pay you to hold conversations with you.  It would be different if you were a formal teacher and she were asking you to practice your profession.  Can you ask her to give you something like flowers from her garden or make you dinner or something in compensation?

Answer 4

why learn spanish to teach her english?

best way to learn a new language is immerse yourself in it, so have her immerse herself in english.

only speak english to her.

Answer 5

Charge $20.00/hr.