Well I’m interested in seeing what you can do.

Here’s a skype I use for conversation practice with others.

andlang8

Anybody can add me so we can practice Japanese.

よろしくお願いします。

• This reply was modified 12 years, 11 months ago by  Anden.

I don’t understand the need for the snide comments. Missing is offering to help you for free to gain practice in tutoring and teaching. If he sucks at it, at worst you lose an hour or two of your time. Even then though, if you are helping him become a better teacher you are helping all of his potential future students. He’s offering the language-learning equivalent of free haircuts from stylists in training. His Japanese may not be perfect but he has demonstrated a level above that of most of the users of this site (this is speculation, but reasonable, I think), as this is a site for beginners in the language. He has also made contributions to the forum that show a general willingness and interest in helping others learn.

You don’t understand the need for snide comments? This is missingno15 we’re talking about here, one of the forum’s snidest members, I believe. If it was anyone else, everyone would just be like “Hmmm… not for me though, sorry; good idea though” :P Also, it’s like the blind being lead by the visually-impaired; I’d rather have a guide dog and/or a human with standard vision to help me around haha

OT: I’ll beat Reiden’s rate and offer $20/hour for the opportunity to teach me.

What? O_o Is he really that bad in Japanese? I don’t believe it. Aren’t we all just students helping other students here? Give the guy some break.

what Bvoncrumb said. its just…so true

@thisiskyle: I meant the *visually-impaired* leading the blind, people who aren’t blind but still have bad vision. Us plebs are the blind while missingno15 is the half-blind. It’s not meant to be an exact analogy, but it’s close enough. You don’t want to be lead along your Japanese-learning path by someone who isn’t an expert in the area. I’m not saying missing is bad at Japanese – he outstrips everyone on the forum, no doubt – he’s just not the man for the job. I have every confidence he could teach the *basics*, but Textfugu is already there for that. And it’s not like you get any serious speaking/listening practice, just because he’s not fluent yet. It’s a nice idea, yeah, but I don’t think it’ll work too well, at least at the beginning (since he hasn’t done anything like it before and will need to get into the swing of it/improve his own Japanese first).

@Hashi: Ah! Put the scary red font awaaaay!!