Have you considered just spending real money for a real teacher? People overestimate how much it costs. In many cases it's actually cheaper than a pimsluer or doulingo subscription.
You'll just keep quitting and running in circles with these shortcuts. Its worse than just forgetting a few kanji because there will be structural issues if you self teach.
You'll make mistakes that you're not even aware of until a native points them out to you when you're in their country speaking silly. This happened to me when I tried to MacGyver a japanese solution through pinsluer, genki, and DLPT materials. Had me saying weird sht like nigete instead of hashiru for running to cath a train until a real native Japanese teacher told me i was silly.
I've mentioned it on here before but I am a bit of a language nerd.I've already been down that path as a polyglot of 5 languages, not counting native language.
You'll make mistakes that you're not even aware of until a native points them out to you when you're in their country speaking silly. This happened to me when I tried to MacGyver a japanese solution through pinsluer, genki, and DLPT materials. Had me saying weird sht like nigete instead of hashiru for running to cath a train until a real native Japanese teacher told me i was silly.
I've mentioned it on here before but I am a bit of a language nerd.I've already been down that path as a polyglot of 5 languages, not counting native language.
I say its realistic for you because you are a grown adult and can legitimately afford to pay native speakers to teach you. You're lucky because your language pair has a lot of developing countries in it.
When i was picking up korean and Japanese i had to pay 15 per hour back in 2017. Three 2 hour sessions per week ran me 360 month. But it worked much better than these fugazi do-it-yourself programs. Spanish was cheap as hell to do domestically because of Venezuelans lacking work authorization but still needing income, so I could legitimately afford to pay $20 an hour by leveraging my local community of hispanics. A lot of the Hispanics were real professionals in their countries but their credentials couldn't cross over so they have to do menial work, but that isn't their limit.
But with your language pairs, i dont see what stops you from paying half or even a third what i paid back in 2017 for Japanese and Korean. Years later i picked up tagalog which was dirt cheap. Because $4 per hour is competitive there. But in your case specifically, i would recommend looking for a professional teacher in Brazil / mozabique or Haiti or Ivory Coast.
It was a bit different for me back in the day when I was sourcing these teaching arrangements. Back then Google Hangouts was still a thing and it was extremely easy to find a community of foreign language enthusiasts. I think your best bet now is to hit up the reddit pages for
If you place a post as a guest in these communities with the tagline that you are American and will pay with paypal , you will get a few bites. And also be very specific about the parts of these countries you target for employment. I could get a very cheap rate for a professional teacher of japanese or Korean because i specifically targeted far off prefectures like iwatte or jeju because I wouldn't play a lifestyle premium for a souel teacher or a tokyo teacher.
And i got a local teacher in 3rd tier Kisumu at $3.5 per hour.My last such engagement was with Kenya when I wanted to pick up Swahili two years ago. I was prepared to use PayPal, but the teacher was tech savvy enough.
As a rough estimate i think you could get a few biters for $7-$10 per hour for brazil, $2-$3 per hour in Mozambique , $3-$4 per hour in in ivory coast and another $3-$4 per hour in haiti. See what I mean about this being affordable? Also you weren't limited to just teachers of these languages to foreigners. You can also leverage certified teachers of English to the local population who are much more accessible since English is taught everywhere.
If you place a post as a guest in these communities with the tagline that you are American and will pay with paypal , you will get a few bites. And also be very specific about the parts of these countries you target for employment. I could get a very cheap rate for a professional teacher of japanese or Korean because i specifically targeted far off prefectures like iwatte or jeju because I wouldn't play a lifestyle premium for a souel teacher or a tokyo teacher.
And i got a local teacher in 3rd tier Kisumu at $3.5 per hour.My last such engagement was with Kenya when I wanted to pick up Swahili two years ago. I was prepared to use PayPal, but the teacher was tech savvy enough.
As a rough estimate i think you could get a few biters for $7-$10 per hour for brazil, $2-$3 per hour in Mozambique , $3-$4 per hour in in ivory coast and another $3-$4 per hour in haiti. See what I mean about this being affordable? Also you weren't limited to just teachers of these languages to foreigners. You can also leverage certified teachers of English to the local population who are much more accessible since English is taught everywhere.
Also a secondary benefit of using the strategy is that you get a natural community of locals that know who You are when you finally get proficient enough to visit these places.
Third benefit is you are halfway to immersion if you're having semi daily convos with locals about their own current events.
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Correct. That’s why I specified Louisiana Kreyòl wasn’t available.
I'm only one city over from you