Why teaching English on Preply is really not worth it

Nobody is saying Preply is perfect, but it is a great platform. I was unemployed for a long time, and Preply saved my career. I am there since 2018 and it has been a nice experience. I have nothing to complain about it. I recommend it.

Totally agree with Rachel. Teachers should charge as much as possible so they will have the least amount of students for the highest return on their time. This means the students get a higher-quality of tuition, better lessons, and personal care.

Thanks for your insight. I'll be checking out more of your videos!

Thank you so much for the information I was just about to sign up with them but felt like I needed to check reviews

I have been with Preply off and on for 3 years. I just let it be what it is. I teach in m own way and have never gone into their system or watched one of the many video's they send to improve my teaching. I have a high return level and they stay for quite a while. I do not get offered alot of new students. I just go with the flow. I am a voice coach and the only reason I continue teaching English is because of how much I enjoy meeting the people from around the world. Preply has not questioned my method of teaching and for me this has been why I have stayed. I am a super tutor but honestly I am not getting more students because of it. I don't have high expectations from this company and have been fine with how it all works up to this point. I should be making alot more money and am now looking into how to make that happen. Thus I watched your video! Thank you.

Hi Rachel, glad I found your video, I'm just in the process of applying to Preply, having my doubts though. You have a new subscriber!

Brilliant video, Rachael. Lots of misleading videos about Preply around but this is one of the best l have seen.

Rachael, this is a great insight into this platform. Here is my experience of teaching with through them. When I first started out on Preply, the first month was dismal in relation to pay. I taught hours of trial lessons, in that first month and felt used with this. The first rate that I started out with $20 per hour. After 700 hours of teaching, I raised my rate to $40. The next point about native speaker tick box is rather disheartening. However, some words of advice regarding this platform. I would recommend those that are considering Preply to niche or specialise. If you are offering a general language course, then you are competing with the vast majority of teachers whose rate may be rather low. When specialising, you will be sought and can dedicate more time to seeking more reputable students who are willing to pay a little more. I did make a video about Preply - the pros and cons - but I use them to supplement my income, especially at this time where it is getting more and more precarious with employment.

👏👏Oh my goodness yes! I did one trial lesson on Preply or similar a few years back. It was interesting to teach someone in Turkey for a change but I wasn't paid and they didn't continue with me so I got nothing. After that experience, I decided it wasn't worth it. I thought at the time it was free for the student. What a rip-off for teachers!

Thanks for the warning. Appreciated. By the sound of them I wouldn't touch them with a barge pole.

Very interesting point of view. Also very interesting to mention that the student pays full price for a 'trial' lesson, hadn't thought of it that way round. I am currently working on Preply but trying to build my own profile of private students. I think it takes the marketing out of it for you, but it is a huge amount of commission you are paying... for not a lot in return.

Personally I went on Preply and considered it a free internship to gain experience since it was my first time teaching online 😅😂 after one month on the platform and 40+ lesson taught and less than 100$ made I’m moving on to a better paying company

Thanks for the heads up. I’m new on Preply to understand the business model. I’m a newly retired professor and not sure I want to teach English yet. Thought of it as an easier way to see if I should invest in creating online teaching materials. Glad to find your channel. New subscriber🎉🤓

I want to talk about preply from a refund perspective. I’ve used them and I think the ‘buy flow’ is pretty happy experience (meaning from finding tutor, to booking, to set up schedule to pay) but when you want your money back from unused hours, they seriously make it difficult. A bit sad that they try to squeeze as much they can from both tutors and buyers.

I worked on Preply and taught French for 3 years and at the rate of 50 hours per week for 8 or 9 dollars per hour with the first course at 100% commission and the others at 18% (+ 21% for Urssaf and 3% for Paypal...) I had a "Super Tutor" and "Super popular" profile then one day when I was trying to send documents to learn phonetics to a new student a "Bryan", incompetent Arabic from their support falsely accused me of wanting to teach a course outside of their platform. First of all I could no longer send messages to anyone then 24 hours later they maintained their false accusations against me without even answering me and closed my profile even though I had given them the screenshots of my answers negative to the last students who asked me for a WhatsApp as well as those showing that I had tried to simply send documents for phonetics before a first lesson was booked. I am 39 years old, I have been fluent in Chinese, Spanish and English for 20 years, but I have never had any training or work in France. For me this slave job was a chance.

I had no ideia, Rachael! Thank you for those information!!!

I started Preply because I need the money since I have no job right now, so when the person asked for a trial I make sure is a child because that’s where my expertise are and I filter all the other ones. Yes I agree, I understand they should get a commission but for the 1st trial 100% is a lot the only benefit I see with this is that they find you the students so I don’t have to do it, yet I have to find more students on Outschool😕

Great informative video. So please tell me where new teachers can go to get students.

Hi i am working on preply since this week. And i am working the whole week, i did a lot of experiment lesson but never earned nothing. I Don t have any time for my daughter, because there a such a Mountain of e mails to respond. If you dont respond the app blocks you. I didn t slept more than 3 hours a night. Really, i am very sad about all this situation

thanks for informing us about this platform