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Originally Posted by Sangetsu
The going rate for one-on-one private lessons is 3000 yen per hour. Anything less than that is not worth the trouble, considering the hour itself, and the time spent getting to and from the meeting place.
Most conversation schools will charge about 3000 yen per hour to students, but they charge as much as 5000 yen per hour for private lessons.
Even if your your English is not first rate (you should see Japanese "English" teachers who work in the schools), you should accept no less than 2000 yen per hour. Let your student try to find someone who accepts less than that, there won't be anyone who does.
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I agree. When I was at uni here one of the German exchange students I lived with had a gig for 2000 yen an hour. I think that was a fair compromise for not being a native speaker, but kind of silly since he, and most of the Germans I met, have near native English levels, and even if their English is not that good it probably most certainly tops the majority of Japanese high school/junior high English teacher levels.
Katja, if you are a student here have you looked into whether or not your uni has a German program? Perhaps you could find some students willing to pay you for tutoring sessions?
In any case I would accept no less than 1500 yen per hour, and that is without travel fees. If you gotta pay to get to them, tell them to come to you, or ask for extra money to pay for the travel expenses.
I typically will charge 2500 yen just because many students come to my apartment, and I just sit there and shoot the shit with them for an hour. Basically I would feel bad charging much more since I do not do anything to prepare half the time, and usually have a good time just talking to them.