I've been lurking in this forum for more than a year and after having finished my undergraduate studies I decided that my life needed a change. God knows why but I stumbled across MJ's The Millionaire Fastlane book in 2015 and I couldn't help but finishing it all in one sitting (Of course there were some concepts that were unclear to me and I'm currently re-reading the book). It was a lifechanging experience but I did nothing back then to start my road to the Fastlane.
Long story short, I'm from Mexico and I work online as a language teacher. In my more than 3 years of experience I've had more than 300 students and I noticed a common problem among them: The low level in the speaking portion compared to listening, reading and writing.
If I had to travel to a place where nobody speaks my first language of course the ability that I'd need the most is speaking! And despite the fact that we live in the technological era, there are currently few ways to improve this partical skill: Either by traveling to a place with native speakers of your target language, having a language exchange partner or hiring a private teacher. While these are really good ways to enhance the speaking abilities, they share one boundary: They're all synchronous.
With this in mind, I created Mextalki, an innovative way to learn Spanish where I show videos of conversations with dual-language subtitles about daily life topics. Also, for the speaking portion, I have a section where I encourage learners to speak as if they were talking to somebody, record that and then, I can personally (for now) give feedback and suggestions.
Outcomes so far:
Following the Five Commandments that MJ suggests:
Need.... ✓ (hope so) - 92% of my students wanted speaking practice
Entry....✓ - We don't have competitors in YT and I'm sure that few can do what we're doing.
Control...✓ - I have the entire control of my YT channel and Website.
Scale...✓ - Being an online business we have the opportunity to reach thousands of people and also, in the future, to expand to other languages.
Time.... X - For now, in this venture, I'm trading my time for money.
Now, to be honest, we haven't earned a substancial profit out of this (less than $100 so far) and I don't know exactly what I can do to turn what I'm doing into a legitimate business, but be sure that I'm highly motivated as a result of the positive feedback, my passion for teaching and my incesant eagerness for helping others.
Any thoughts, insights, feedback and suggestions are welcomed. Thanks for reading.
YT Channel: Mextalki DE
Website: Mextalki || Home Page (not mobile friendly)
Long story short, I'm from Mexico and I work online as a language teacher. In my more than 3 years of experience I've had more than 300 students and I noticed a common problem among them: The low level in the speaking portion compared to listening, reading and writing.
If I had to travel to a place where nobody speaks my first language of course the ability that I'd need the most is speaking! And despite the fact that we live in the technological era, there are currently few ways to improve this partical skill: Either by traveling to a place with native speakers of your target language, having a language exchange partner or hiring a private teacher. While these are really good ways to enhance the speaking abilities, they share one boundary: They're all synchronous.
With this in mind, I created Mextalki, an innovative way to learn Spanish where I show videos of conversations with dual-language subtitles about daily life topics. Also, for the speaking portion, I have a section where I encourage learners to speak as if they were talking to somebody, record that and then, I can personally (for now) give feedback and suggestions.
Outcomes so far:
- We have a growing Youtube Channel with over 1K subscribers.
- Nearly a 100% Positive feedback
- Today we launched the website and started creating an email list.
Following the Five Commandments that MJ suggests:
Need.... ✓ (hope so) - 92% of my students wanted speaking practice
Entry....✓ - We don't have competitors in YT and I'm sure that few can do what we're doing.
Control...✓ - I have the entire control of my YT channel and Website.
Scale...✓ - Being an online business we have the opportunity to reach thousands of people and also, in the future, to expand to other languages.
Time.... X - For now, in this venture, I'm trading my time for money.
Now, to be honest, we haven't earned a substancial profit out of this (less than $100 so far) and I don't know exactly what I can do to turn what I'm doing into a legitimate business, but be sure that I'm highly motivated as a result of the positive feedback, my passion for teaching and my incesant eagerness for helping others.
Any thoughts, insights, feedback and suggestions are welcomed. Thanks for reading.
YT Channel: Mextalki DE
Website: Mextalki || Home Page (not mobile friendly)
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