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13 Post author: ShanghaiTEFLer 02 November 2012 11:13AM

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Comment author: DaFranker 02 November 2012 05:48:27PM 1 point [-]

Probably. I'm not sure how large a market it is, though.

The obvious problem is that of finding teachers, or for teachers to find students. A large public website might attract too much government attention. Word-of-mouth friend-knows-someone methods alone sound like each case would be isolated, and so we probably wouldn't hear about it.

Comment author: MileyCyrus 02 November 2012 10:31:28PM *  1 point [-]

A large public website might attract too much government attention.

Host it off-shore. Hell, you can even live in another country while teaching Chinese people English. I've heard of people who do that, though it's harder to make a living that way than teaching in person.