Online education is the future of education, and this can also be applied to language learning. If you’re busy with work, having the chance to learn a language at home or at an environment where you feel safe is wonderful because this won’t affect your normal life. While being able to learn at home, we can also get rid of the biggest time sucker we have in today’s society—commuting. An average American wastes over 15 full days per year commuting. While we can’t change our working environment overnight, we can change our learning environment, which means learning online helps us win back more time.

        The best teachers are everywhere, not just in your local city. The chance of your finding the right teacher that matches your learning style, personality and needs, and comes from your desired location is pretty slim. However, by learning languages online, we have the opportunity to work with the best teachers, not just the ones we find in our local city.

       When it comes to learning languages online, first of all, you’d better work with someone who not only deeply understands your goals and needs but also has rich experience in teaching. Secondly, you need to realize language learning is a marathon. Though we’ve become used to sitting in two-hour-long lecture halls, trying to remember as much information as our brain allows, yet learning over long periods of time doesn’t work, especially if you risk burning out too early. Thus, try to break it down into 30-minute periods several times a week.

       In addition, when you’re learning languages online with your teacher, you have to make a plan for your lessons in advance. This is often ignored because we’re already so distracted by everything else in our lives. One way to solve this problem is to book lessons in advance and set up repeat events on your calendar. In this way, you won’t forget to show up for your lessons.