If you could, would you pay for...

"how can you call it 'losing an hour'?" You're obliged to return the favor, which means you have to put your own time into it. Time which would otherwise be free. Hence you lose an hour (or whatever time it is you got out of it). But basically, you owe that much time in return to them. There are people who wouldn't want to lose that time. And if you're paying for lessons, you can expect (no, demand) a MUCH higher standard of quality than what you'd get from some free, personal arrangement.

And you don't think I'll make any money from this? Did you not read all the posts by people who say that they'd pay for such a service if they could? Or anecdotes about people they know who are already earning money from this? Edit: sorry, I'm not trying to sound full of myself. I'm just saying that all signs point to being able to make a little money from this.

No I whole heartedly disagree and I am entitled to. Those who wouldn't pay haven't bothered posting in this thread as the title tells it all.

You're also forgetting that you're not even a native - why would I trust your language?

A friendship can be built from tandem exchanges. That is what helps the learning. Oh and another thing, as a non qualified teacher why do you suppose you are so great at teaching?

the bottom line is, there's no harm in trying, right?

And if not trusting her language, because she's not a native, is an issue then I obviously misplaced my trust in all my old teachers who weren't natives... Just because she isn't a qualified teacher doesn't mean she can't teach. Give the OP a chance at least before beating her down in such a blunt way.

Didn't she say she was educated in France? That makes her French a hell of a lot better than some of the teachers I work with who haven't spent any significant time abroad since their degree.

And the fact that she is willing to give lessons at all implies she's confident in her own language skills.

Just because certain people don't think it will work, well, that doesn't mean that it won't!

As I previously said: Good luck. I still believe you will be excessively lucky to have more than 2 hours a week, thus rendering the whole charade pointless.

Having a PGCE doesn't necessarily make you capable of teaching - everyone knows that. And unfortunately, very little school/classroom based experience is usually enough to get you onto a PGCE nowadays - they should make it harder in my opinion.

I realize you're trolling for negative rep (as you seem to like to collect the little red gems), but you're going to have to try somewhere else, because you won't be getting it from me.

Hmmm clearly have no idea of what a troll actually is.

I am just responding to the argument you started as you picked up on my original comment.

I don't give a poo about rep and had you been on here longer, you would know that.