(This page is the English translation of this article written in Japanese. )

Have you ever had trouble booking a lesson with your favorite teacher on Skype English?

Have you ever been unable to book a teacher at a time that suits you?

Would you like to offer your teacher “personal contract of private tutor” to avoid such cases?

You may be wondering, “Is it okay to do that?” but the truth is that there are teachers who want to do that.

This is because there are teachers who have excellent teaching skills but are not well paid.

This is unfair, of course, but it’s a kind of opportunity for them, as individual contracts can make more money.

There are many benefits for students as well.

First, the contract is negotiated in English, so the proposal itself is a living English learning experience.

Additionally,

・You can start your class at any time in your free time.
・You can talk about your favorite topics.
・You can extend your class as long as your teacher’s time allows.
・We have the flexibility to respond to each other’s time.
・Since there is no intermediary, you can get more knowledge with less payment.

Specifically, at the end of each class we will decide when the next class will be.

Once you’ve decided, record the date and time in your chat box.You can check it any time.

Before the next class, When you want to change the start time, for example,

If it looks like you’ll be able to go home early the day,

“18時30分に始めても良いですか？予定より30分早いけど。” (Can we make the class from 18:30 JST? 30 min. early.)

or

“渋滞のため、20時30分から始めても良いですか？　1時間後になります。ごめんなさい”（Is it OK to start our class from 20:30 JST? caused by traffic jam. 1 hour later, sorry.）

In most cases, you will get a reply of “No problem!” from your teacher.

Personal contract gives you a lot of freedom in terms of time and content, and your English conversation skills improve rapidly.

In my case, in addition to the above, my child (junior high school student) talks with the teacher for the first 30 minutes of class.

I think it is valuable for Japanese junior high school students to have a 30-minute conversation with a foreigner in English.

Payment will be made by PayPal to his/her email address.
You can send money in near real time.

I think the price of the personal contract is on a case-by-case basis, but in my case it was 250 PHP / 25 minutes.

I don’t know if it’s expensive or cheap, but with such a free contract, there are no complaints.

Send to your (Japanese) student the following message after fill in the blanks .

____PHP/lesson (25min)
prepaid/postpaid by PayPal.(select)
Your e-mail: _________________
monthly/weekly payment (select)

P.S. for foreigners (English tutor)
Most Japanese are not very good at negotiating. And We Japanese can’t even think about negotiating in English.

I have had private contracts with three different teachers. (The timing is different, not at the same time.)

The first contact was from the teacher side.

Therefore, I recommend you to introduce this website(Japanese version of this page) written by Japanese people and suggest it implicitly.

Good luck!