Daniel Harris

Yes, you can usually request a female English teacher for your daughter, and it’s a completely reasonable thing to ask for. Many families in Saudi Arabia and across the Gulf prefer a female teacher for their daughters, whether for comfort, values, or simply because their child opens up more with a woman. The real question

A free trial lesson is the most useful twenty-five minutes you’ll spend before choosing an online English platform, and most parents waste it. They sit nearby, half-watch, feel a vague “that seemed nice,” and book a package on a gut feeling. Then three weeks in they discover the teacher talks too much, the content doesn’t

When you’re a parent in Saudi Arabia or the Gulf signing your child up for online English, the worry isn’t usually about grammar. It’s about what else comes into your home along with the lessons. Will the teacher respect your family’s values? Will the stories and pictures in the lessons sit comfortably with how you’re

You’re scrolling through teacher profiles on an online English platform, and the same three acronyms keep appearing: TESOL, TEFL, CELTA. Sometimes all three on one teacher. The marketing pages talk about them like they obviously matter, but nobody actually explains what they are or which one you should care about for a six-year-old in Riyadh.

A teaching certificate tells you something useful, but it only tells you about one day. It says a teacher passed a course at some point in the past. It does not tell you whether that same teacher showed up prepared for your daughter’s lesson on a Tuesday evening, kept her talking instead of just talking