Teaching a language, one link at a time
This started as a chat room and turned into a tutor's tool because tutors kept being the people it suited. Here is what it gives you that a call does not.
One link, and they are in
You get a page with your name on it and one thing to do: start a lesson. A student types their name, picks the language they read in, and they are in a room with you.
No account for them, nothing to install, and it works on whatever phone they already have. Each visitor gets a room of their own, so two students never land in the same one.
The correcting is already done
What they write is marked with how a fluent speaker would have put it, before you get to it. What is left for you is the part only a teacher does.
And where you disagree, you mark it yourself. Your correction starts from the sentence they typed, so changing one word costs one word of typing, and what you write replaces what the room had put there.
You write in your language and they read in theirs, or you both write in the one they are learning with their own a tap away. Either way neither of you is translating.
The hour carries into the week
Send a word into their review during the lesson, with what it means, and it joins the schedule that brings it back over the following weeks. An hour that ends is an hour they forget.
Ask what they keep getting wrong and the corrections from this lesson are read back as habits rather than as a list. That is the thing worth opening with next time, and the thing hardest to see while you are in the middle of talking.
When it is over the lesson can be read back: what the hour covered, the words worth keeping, and where to pick up. Each word it finds goes into their review in one tap, and the reading itself can go to your student, who finds it in their own panel in the same room.
Written, on purpose
This is not video, and that costs you pronunciation work. It is worth saying before you decide.
What it buys is everything else. A beginner reads at their own pace instead of nodding along to a sentence that has gone, taps the word they did not know without stopping you, and opens the same conversation a week later still learning from it.
What it needs
Claiming your link, writing the page and seeing exactly how it looks are free. Publishing it, so students and the tutor directory can reach it, is part of Premium.
The same subscription covers the line of HTML that puts your page on a site you already own, so a student never leaves it.