Hello, welcome to the podcast. Just before we begin this episode, I'd like to mention my main

podcast sponsor and that's I-talkie. Yesterday I used I-talkie myself to book some more lessons with a French teacher to improve my French.

And I have to say that it is a really impressive service.

First of all, it's very professional and functional when you log on to i Talkie the whole system

for finding teachers and booking lessons is extremely smooth and just feels very trustworthy

and reliable. But also it's not just a way to find

teachers. There are other services that you can access free. So when you're logged in, you have

three tabs at the top of the screen, so three areas of

I-talkie basically. You've got the lessons tab where you have all the details of the lessons

you've already done and the lessons that you've booked.

And there's a Find a Teacher tab, which is basically an advanced search function to help you find

the right person for you. And you can search by teacher type, like what

kind of teacher they are. You can search by where they come from. You can search using their

hourly rates, so that's price, and there are different prices for

different people.

And you can search by specific teaching skills, so if you're looking for a certain type of English lesson.

And also there's, that's the finder teacher tab.

So it's a great way to find specific types of teacher to find the right kind of

lessons or conversations for you and then also there's a third area which is

the community area which you access using the

community tab and that's where you find like loads and loads of other stuff

including loads of articles about language learning.

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