There are skilled Tagalog native speakers in the Philippines with whom you can converse on Skype! Your teacher gets compensated fairly via your lesson payment, and you get to listen to a native resident tell you first-hand stories about her country in English, in addition to the foremost goal of practicing your Tagalog.
MORE INFO ON THE PROCESS
Step 1) Register on Glovico.org as a student. During registration you will need to provide a Skype-account. In case you don't have Skype on your computer yet you can download it here.
Step 2) Browse through the profiles of the teachers and choose the one whose rating you find most convincing, whose profile you find most intriguing and where you consider the price just right.
Step 3) In order to be able to book lessons you first have to buy credit. You can purchase as little or as much as you wish and pay via credit card or debit card. Your credit is displayed in the navigation column on the right.
Step 4) By clicking on the timetable of a teacher you can choose the lesson most appropriate for your schedule. Once you book a lesson the teacher will be notified of your booking. If all the lessons of the teacher of your choice are inconvenient for you, you can also drop her a message through her profile and offer alternative timeframes yourself. If these are doable, the teacher will enter the respective lesson in the booking system where you will still need to book it.
Step 5) You will next receive an email from your teacher with a confirmation and the request to specify your preferred content of the lesson so that he or she can adequately prepare. Please check your spam folder once in a while as emails ave a tendency to get lost there. In case you cannot keep the appointment, please cancel 24 hours before in order to have the credit reimbursed to your account.
Step 6) In parallel, your teacher will add you in his Skype-account which will lead to contact request in yours. Please confirm this so that the teacher can see whether you are online at the scheduled time.
Step 7) The teacher will call you via Skype at your appointed time and teach you via videoconference. Please make sure that your webcam and headset are working properly. A lesson takes 55 minutes in order to allow the teachers for a small break between lessons. Should a lesson need to be interrupted and/or cancelled due to technical problems please arrange directly with the teacher for an alternative lesson straight away.
Step 8) After the lesson you will receive an email asking you to rate the lesson. This is important for us in order to allow other students a decent assessment of the lesson with a specific teacher beforehand. Do please consider the importance of these ratings for the teachers.
Have fun learning Tagalog!