I need a meeting room every week - I want it for free. Is this possible?

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So I've been trying to start Japanese lessons again and I've found a teacher and she seems nice and friendly but for some reason, she seems pretty insistent on not having a lesson at her home (she's married by the way, so it's not like she'd be home alone with some random neckbeard), so I have to respect that.

I don't really want to have lessons at my house because I don't want to intrude on my housemates as me and my teacher speak in tongues.

We had a lesson at a public place (coffee shop), but I found it pretty distracting and a bit cheeky. Problem with libraries is they close too early, so are only available to NEETs and OAPs.

So I suppose the only option I have is to find a meeting room. But is that even a thing?

Maybe I should just nip this in the bud and go solo again. I don't need a teacher right?
 
is she fit?

if yes, I can let you use a room in my house (once cameras are installed in certain areas)

if no, sorry I don't have any space available and can't really help you
 
Help if we have a rough location.

Otherwise can you not look in to hotels etc? Might costs mind
 
She's probably working location independent and may even be in another country. Quite a few language tutors do that now (charge UK fees and live in a cheaper country). Even a UK phone number doesn't mean she's in the UK (my 0203 'London' Skype number follows me around the world).

As for a room, your best bet is definitely to try doing the lessons at home. But get a decent headset which has active noise cancellation on both the headphones and the microphone (I use a Plantronics Focus UC when working at home or in a noisy location - love them!). If that really isn't viable then you can probably work from a cafe if your headset is good enough.
 
Hades said:
She's probably working location independent and may even be in another country. Quite a few language tutors do that now (charge UK fees and live in a cheaper country). Even a UK phone number doesn't mean she's in the UK (my 0203 'London' Skype number follows me around the world).

As for a room, your best bet is definitely to try doing the lessons at home. But get a decent headset which has active noise cancellation on both the headphones and the microphone (I use a Plantronics Focus UC when working at home or in a noisy location - love them!). If that really isn't viable then you can probably work from a cafe if your headset is good enough.
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Not if they've met in public? He wouldn't need a place, if they were doing it online. Or am I missing something?
 
Begbie said:
Not if they've met in public? He wouldn't need a place, if they were doing it online. Or am I missing something?
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Probably not missing anything. I assumed he took thew call in a cafe rather than them meeting in person there. But yes it's far more likely that they probably met in person there.

Either way, a good noise cancelling headset may help in public spaces.
 
Assuming the OP is meeting for a physical lesson, given that he doesn't want to have the lesson at home due to the teacher talking in heathen lingo and distracting his housemates whereas if it was an online thing a simple pair of headphones would address that ....

I have done the same for quite a while and have had lessons in various locations over that time depending on my schedule and my teachers schedule. We used to have lessons in a coffee shop which was fine a lot of the time but occasionally was a bit noisy (fortunately there are many coffee shops so moving to another was always an option). As long as you are buying something then it's not cheeky at all, you see students doing working there and people working on their laptops in there for hours on end so nothing wrong with having a language lesson.

What we do now depends on whether it is term time or not (she also teaches as a couple of language schools). During term time we actually have a lesson in a pub (no alcohol involved of course). Sit in a quiet corner out the way with a couple of soft drinks and have the lesson ... not had a problem with doing that and it's close to the language school she teaches at that evening so she can go there after my lesson. Outside term time she doesn't need to be at the language school so we actually have a lesson in a supermarket cafe which is usually quiet when we are doing it and is in a convenient location for both of us to get too.
 
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