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Old Apr 10, 2018, 07:42 AM
ArcheM ArcheM is offline
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I wanted to make a correction for something I've said earlier. I said that on the site italki there are free lessons with community tutors. I just checked and nope, complete randos are giving paid lessons... Okay, that's not fair. I mean, I don't know how it is in your country, but there's a long tradition of complete randos giving tuition without any accreditation. At the very least on italki they get a rating. In case you're at all curious, the top community tutor for German charges $16/hour... Curiously, I also glanced at my native language, and the top Russian tutor takes half that much. I'm not going to go into the whole economic situation, but that's an interesting indicator.

And a bonus random factoid that suddenly came to mind: In all the languages that I know, except English, the word(s) for "why" have a more or less obvious derivation from "for what": Spanish por qué, French pourquoi, and also the German warum - a combination of "wo" (which in the modern language mostly means "where"; oh, it's also sort of adapted into "war-" to be followed by a vowel) and "um" which is often used to indicate purpose in the construction "um... zu": Ich schreibe im Deutsch, um dir einen Beispiel zu geben... But English divorced with this tradition. I mean, wikipedia says that "why" is still derived from an ancient (reconstructed) word for "what for", but you can't see it.

Edit: Oh, but if you're a fan of articles (like in "newspaper"), italki might be for you. I've found some interesting ones for German: https://www.italki.com/articles/german (I'm not sure if you're going to be able to look at them without signing up.)
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