http://teach.italki.com/application
The website “italki” offers the possibility to learn or teach over 130 languages. Each teacher sets their own fees, and it is not necessary to have a degree or certification to teach. There are several million users, and over 5000 English teachers, but very few teachers for African languages such as Yoruba (7 teachers), Tamazight (6 teachers), Wolof (2 teachers), Sudani Arabic (1 teacher), Tigrinya (1 teacher), Somali (1 teacher), Amharic (1 teacher)... No Bambara teacher, no Fula teacher, no Oromo teacher, no Kinyarwanda teacher... Same with several Caribbean, Eastern European, South Asian or West Asian languages : Pashto, Kurdish, Chechen, Tamul, Albanese and Haitian Creole all have less than 20 teachers. Sign language (in all its varieties) also has less than 20 teachers. And almost none of the North, Central or South American indigenous languages that the website offers have any teacher at all : Lakota, Nahuatl, Wayuu, Cherokee, Cree, Choctaw, Navajo (diné bizaad), Guambiano (namtrik/misak)... all of them have 0 teachers. And none of the varieties of Rroma language (Rromani) that the website offers have any teacher either. Of course because of eurocentric linguistic and cultural hegemony and imperialism, it’s expected that there be less demand for these languages than for English, French or Spanish, and therefore it makes sense that there are less teachers. But still, I feel like someone who speaks one of these languages could get a decent amount of money by teaching online on Italki. There is not much competition so you could get a lot of students. The website charges 15% of your earnings, but you can set your own prices. For example, one of the only 2 Wolof teachers on the website started teaching in February of this year. She has great reviews and feedback from her students. Since February, she has given 30 half-hour trial lessons for 7,99$, 10 conversation lessons for 10,99$ to 21,99$ depending on duration, and 21 grammar & vocabulary lessons for 11,99$ to 34$ depending on duration. Imagining all the lessons she taught were the shortest (30 minutes) thus cheapest ones, she would have made approximately 500$ teaching Wolof since February, after deducting the 15% commission the website charges. In Senegal, 500$ is a lot of money, almost 1400 times the minimum hourly wage per hour, for teaching 30 hours. And the most likely is that not all of her classes lasted 30 minutes, so she probably made even more than 500$. So, if you or someone you know speaks one of these languages and needs money, that could be an interesting option!
