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The cheapest place in the world to learn mandarin

fluentfuture.com offers a much more fun environment to learn languages, for instance our students who learn mandarin.

By: James Cavanagh
Category: Education
Posted: Feb 23, 2010
Updated: Feb 23, 2010
Views: 53


One would have thought the cheapest place in the world to a find a teacher and learn Mandarin would have been in, it’s actually fluentfuture.com.

A quiet revolution has been occurring in market for language tutoring. Traditionally in western counties students and companies have been paying in excess of USD $30 per hour for individual language lessons. Although now with the emergence of services such as skype lessons no longer have to take place face to face, but can instead take place online. Fluentfuture.com, a growing internet phenomenon, now offers a portal for students to be able to learn languages online from teachers based in emerging economies. Through the website it is now possible to learn Mandarin at a fraction of traditional costs. For instance members can learn Mandarin, from native mandarin teachers, at prices starting at $2 per hour. Teachers set there own prices, students take lessons over skype and the pay teachers the directly.

James Anderson, the CEO of fluentfuture.com stated "we have seen some of our most remarkable growth in students who want to learn Mandarin, we have over 1,000 registered students learning Mandarin…” “fluentfuture.com offers a much more fun environment to learn languages, for instance our students who learn mandarin, can create groups and meet other members who also want to learn mandarin, it has created a huge community of online mandarin learners, they can also learn mandarin from native speakers at a fraction of the traditional cost"

People have mixed views on learning languages over skype, but at prices like these the market for traditional language tuition might have trouble keeping up.

To pick your mandarin teacher based on their cost per hour and feedback they have received from other students visit www.fluentfuture.com

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