Ezyp:

You dey find free English tutor for your unborn kids... badt guys

BoldBrainz:
Wait, so you created a thread just to ask us how much you ought to charge your clients for services that you're supposed to render to them?

No vex abeg, but why is this supposed to concern us? As in, why should we be in any place to even make inputs into your financial dealings? And you were actually moved to front page?

This matter no clear!

sunsweet33:


Most phoné phoné Nigerians just end up sounding stupid. The Indian people you mentioned can polish themselves up but not to the extent of mimicking British English.

If I’ve gotten the lady correctly these people basically want her to prime their kids so that they will be able to assimilate well once they travel abroad for studies.

From that angle I kinda get it but I severely doubt that it’s possible to imbibe an authentic British accent from some sporadic lessons in Nigeria.

This is how we lost the Benin Bronzes and countless other precious artefacts to the likes of these people. By being neither here nor there and blowing with the wind.

Jewessgratitud3:
A colleague of mine called me last week and Said a woman needs a sounds teacher to come and take the child on sounds this summer to enable the child read before school resumes and that she wants someone with British diction.
So, because I'm a diction instructor and have done that kind of job in the past ( like nine years ago) my friend recommended me.

Back then ( 2014) when I was into this home lesson full time, I was charging 25k per child and its three times a week and I pick the places I go to. No long distance thing.
Now with the current situation of the economy and considering my age, I charged this woman 50k three times a week and she said it's too much. Meanwhile, the school the child is attending was where I taught before I left and started doing home lesson and their school fees then ( 2014) was 95k for prep class. By now it should be around 150k. My friend already told me the school the child attends.

She said it's too much that she can only afford 20k. I just ignored them. They will pay 150k for school fees, nothing much to show for it but will want to give you peanut and expect you to perform magic under 1month.

If I handle the child, no doubt, she'll read and her accent will change but definitely not for that amount. I'll now be trekking that long distance cos no bike and somebody is telling me 50k is too much.

Did I do wrong by ignoring them cos they want me to come and start this August but I have zeroed my mind there.

Would you accept such amount for home lesson?

LtChisom:


When you said because of your age, how old are you? Are you of child bearing age?

Pkgplanet:

Is there anyone old enough to be on nairaland who is not of child bearing age? Most ridiculous question I ever heard from a supposed adult,or maybe you're kid,who knows.

Jewessgratitud3:


I thought as much. Like one soldier woman sometime ago that was collecting pounds from the sister abroad and giving me peanut to take her sisters daughter on diction so she can join her mother later. She even included her own daughter to lesson for the same fees. I just looked at her and laughed. I focused more on the sisters daughter. Later I had to stop cos she was using me to make money.