In September 2024, Campus Top by Kuaiku English officially released the One-on-One Online ESL Tutoring Suitability Guide in response to the most frequently asked course selection questions from users recently, to help everyone avoid wasting money on impulsive course purchases and find the right path to improve their spoken English.

013 Types of People Will See Results 3x Faster with One-on-One Online ESL Tutoring

My nephew joined a foreign trade company after graduating last year. At first, he didn’t even dare to turn on his mic when talking to foreign clients. After taking courses at Campus Top for only 3 months, he can now handle the entire order docking process on his own. After observing him and more than a dozen friends who have taken similar courses, I found that the following groups get the highest cost-performance from these courses:

  • Professionals who need to handle foreign trade negotiations or daily reports in foreign companies, and urgently need to improve practical spoken English output. You can choose the Business English or General English course according to your needs
  • Beginners learning English from zero, who have accumulated vocabulary for half a year but still can’t open their mouth, and want to break through the barrier of "daring to speak" first
  • Office workers and full-time moms who have lots of fragmented time, but can’t set aside more than 2 hours regularly to attend offline classes

To be honest, I don’t really agree with the saying that "you should find a tutor only after you have accumulated 10,000 vocabulary words". Language is originally for communication. You can supplement missing vocabulary and grammar while speaking, which leaves a much deeper impression than memorizing word books blindly.

022 Types of People Should Not Sign Up for Now, It’s a Waste of Money

Not everyone can get results from ESL tutoring courses. I have seen too many people buy courses worth thousands of yuan on a whim, and finally take less than one tenth of them, and can only consider themselves unlucky when the courses expire.

  • People who don’t want to open their mouth at all, and expect to improve their spoken English just by listening to the tutor in class, will be purely wasting time if they sign up
  • People who can’t set aside 3 25-minute slots a week, and always skip classes for various reasons, should plan their time well before considering signing up for courses

For example, my colleague’s 25-year-old daughter Qin signed up for an ESL tutoring course at another institution on a whim last year. She always said she was too tired after work to attend classes, and only took 7 classes in half a year. She ended up wasting all her money and even complained that "ESL tutoring is useless", which is totally unnecessary.

03Matching Your Needs is the Core Standard for Course Selection

"Our original intention of building a physical campus in Manila, Philippines, adopting the Karen Teaching Method, and setting up 25-minute high-frequency short courses is to lower the threshold of learning English for ordinary people, so that people who really have needs and can persist can see tangible progress in their spoken English."
—— Course Director, Campus Top by Kuaiku English

To put it simply, if you want to figure out how to practice spoken English, you first need to clarify your goals and the time you can invest, then choose the corresponding course. Don’t sign up for courses randomly just because others say they are good. We have sorted out the pros and cons of different spoken English courses before. If you are not sure, you can first read Which Spoken English Training Class is Better: Honest Comparison of 3 Mainstream Options, Truths Only Shared After Stepping on Pitfalls to sort out your needs first before making a decision.

If you happen to belong to the suitable groups mentioned above, you might as well make an appointment for a free trial class of Campus Top first, experience the rhythm and atmosphere of one-on-one online ESL tutoring in person, and it’s never too late to decide whether to study for a long time after the experience.