Is Teaching The English Language Online Worth It?

This article is especially helpful to native speakers of the English language because besides teaching the English language formally, they also get to teach the intricacies of the English language as it applies on a per country basis.

This means that an online content creator whose teaching British English not only can teach about the English British as taught in British schools but also can teach about how the English words are spoken, they may also teach about the different English slangs in Britain.

The same goes for Australian and American English teachers. Having lived in two countries and listened to English speakers from other countries, it is easy to see that you could easily make a career by just pointing out the difference in the English language between countries.

But let’s get to the point, why teach English as against Chinese or Japanese if you happen to know them? The simple answer is that a disproportionate number of people in the world wants to learn the English language. See the Google Trends chart below:

One important reason could be economics. A lot of people know that the number one country in the world is the United States which is an English language speaking country. The UK, Australia are also less notable but equally important English speaking countries.

A lot of people want to trade, do business, work or live in these western countries. This is the reason why they’re studying the English language. In fact, even Singapore which is an Asian country had deemed their official language to be English.

But this is not the only reason. People spend an average of 7 hours online everyday which just goes to show how much internet content is being devoured by each people all over the world. 60% of the internet is in English and many people want to know this 60% internet content.

Third reason: 22% of the worlds books are written in English and most books are now being uploaded online. This means that a lot of people are missing out on these books if they don’t know how to read English.

Fourth reason: Even people from English speaking countries are trying to improve their English language knowledge. This is because with the advent of social media and other online content. Communicating in English properly became more and more important.

If you looked at Google Trends to see if a lot of people are interested in learning the English language in terms of YouTube viewership, you would easily see an identical chart which shows that a disproportionate number of people are trying to learn the English language over others.

I typed the search keyword: “learn English language” and sure enough, YouTube showed me plenty of English language tutorial videos with millions of views. Even the days old videos have a good number of user views.

This just shows how popular or profitable teaching the English language can be and I think YouTube is one of the best if not the best medium to use if you want to teach English. This is because you, the tutor actually get to speak English and get to actually pronounce it properly.

And this highlights one and probably the most important requirement for teaching the English language: You must actually know how to read and speak the English language. This is the reason why natural born English speakers have an advantage in this kind of online content.

Besides teaching the English language by posting your English language lessons on your website or by creating YouTube videos, you could also do private lessons online. In fact, there are a lot of online companies solely dedicated to providing English language lessons.

If you Google for example, the search keywords: "how to teach english online for money", you would be taken to plenty of such articles. These articles even include list of online companies that you can apply to make money online by teaching the English language.

But if you think these online English teaching companies are too competitive or are too limiting for you in terms of growth, income, or even independence, you could setup your own online private English tutoring.

All you have to do is find clients like well to do parents who want their children to know or speak better English. This is especially effective if you happen to have connections in the education department like teachers, principals, other tutors and so on.

You could also turn your English lessons into ebooks and sell them. If you think you won’t be particularly popular as a YouTuber for some reason or another, you could turn your English lessons into audiobooks. This way, your voice is you main asset and not your looks.

Do you remember your English lessons in school? How many where they and how many years did you spend learning English or learning to speak it correctly and fluently? This just shows the depth of English in terms of being a teachable subject.

In fact, there are even university degrees solely dedicated to learning English. According to the Oxford Dictionary, there are approximately 171,146 words in the English language and this does not even include the 47,156 obsolete words.

It is estimated that a beginner can become fluent enough in English in one year if they study for at least 5 hours a day. But who studies English non-stop for at least 5 hours a day for one year? No one I know at least.

The simple idea is that for every student you manage to get for your English lesson, it would take you more than a few years to make them fluent enough in English. This is consists of a lot of lesson which could mean a lot of profit for you.

Don’t get me wrong. I don’t want to say that you should milk your students for all the money they’ve got for years on end. What I’m only trying to emphasize is that teaching English takes a lot of time which could be a worthwhile online career for you.

A lot of people want to learn the English language because it’s the language spoken or the business language of many of the worlds most developed countries. It’s even the dominant language in the internet. The language predominantly increases a person’s financial prospects.

There is just so much to teach regarding the English language that there is potentially no end to the lessons you can post or teach online. This fact is welcome news. This is because it could translate to more income for you.

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