Looking for someone to speak English with us in Danang, Vietnam

Vietnam

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11/12/2019
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A family of 4, including 2 daughters. My first daughter can speak English and she wants to have someone help her to improve her English. I work in information technology field and can speak English a little. I have a big house so I have rooms available.

My house locates in a zone of Danang Economics university, my neighborhoods are all professors working for Danang university. This is a safe place for you :).
Type of help
Language practice
Other
Help
You don't have to do lots of work, I won't have much benefit by giving this free accommodation, you only need to spend about 30' a day whenever you can to sit down and talking with us about whatever we can, that's it.
Languages spoken
English
Accommodation
One free room for 2 or 3 people. Free accomodation but no meals included. Also, the stay is not couple friendly since its one room for many people and no privacy is available.
What else ...
Around my house, there are some places for you to visit such as Marble mountain, Hoi An ancient town, Ba Na hill, Linh Ung pagoda, Hai Van mountain... You can easily go to Hoi An ancient town from my house by bus. My residence is also next to My Khe beach. If you like swimming, it is a good place to live because you can walk to the beach

A little far from my house are there My Son, Lang Co beach, Hue -an ancient citadel of Vietnam... You can also get there by bus or train.
A little more information
- Internet access
- Limited internet access
- We have pets
- We are smokers
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
30' to 1 hour a day

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Accuracy of profile:
(4.3)

Cultural exchange:
(4.7)

Communication:
(4.7)

28/11/2019

Left by Workawayer (Jack & Sara) for host

We had a great time staying with Do and his family for about 3 weeks. During our stay we watched/tutored Nelly 5 days a week when she came home from school, typically around 2 - 3 hours per day. Do was friendly, talkative, and very helpful. Nelly is a playful, energetic, funny 5 year old girl who is eager to get to know foreigners and always up… read more

(Excellent )

21/11/2019

Left by Workawayer (Nadja & Astrid) for host

We stayed at Do‘s house for one week. Our responsibility was to take care of Nelly as soon as she came back from kindergarden. Usually that was around 4:30pm. Talking English, playing games and learning together with her were the things we did everyday for a few hours. Nellys English is already very good. She‘s a smart girl and full of energy.
The… read more

(Very good )

18/07/2019

Left by host for Workawayer (Rachael & Steffan)

Such a lovely family! Although we didn't have the chance to stay with them as much as we wanted to, we hung out a lot and had an amazing time together. Asher is a playful little boy, and he loves hanging out with other people. Rachael and Steffan was incredibly helpful, they did a very good job taking care of our little Nelly. Also, Sonny is such… read more

(Excellent )

30/05/2019

Left by Workawayer (Rachael & Steffan) for host

Do and his family are simply lovely. We thoroughly enjoyed our time with them. Our 3yo son loved playing with Nelly and Sunny. Sunny is a smart and caring girl, and little Nelly is full of energy and quite affectionate - I really enjoyed looking after her for a few hours each day after school. Do and Lien are great hosts and we loved going out… read more

(Excellent )

19/03/2019

Left by host for Workawayer (Julieta)

My wife and I were really busy and have work out side of working hours so we had Julieta and her friend take care of my little daughter. They did this job really well as they took care of their sister. My wife gave to me a lot of best words about these 2 girls. Looking at how they took care of my daughter, we completely know they are very… read more

(Excellent )

18/03/2019

Left by Workawayer (Julieta) for host

I stayed with Do and his family for a week and everything was great!
I was in charge of taking care of Nelly, the cutest little girl of the family, just for a few hours from 4.30pm when she arrived from school. This allowed me to enjoy Danang during my free time.
During my staying I was able to share not only family dinners but also I was lucky… read more

(Very good )

03/02/2019

Left by Workawayer (Jordan & Haley) for host

We had a great time with Do and his family. They are very welcoming and included us in many of their meals and shared conversations. We spent time speaking english and playing with Nelly in the evenings and spoke english to Do's nephew and niece a couple times during our 3 week stay on a scheduled basis. The scheduled allowed us to travel to Hoi… read more

(Very good )

08/11/2018

Left by Workawayer (Janie) for host

What a lovely family! I’d like to start by once again thanking the whole family for welcoming me into their home. It is a lovely, big, clean house in a perfect location. Close to the beach but also the city too! I spent 2 and a half weeks here and could’ve done longer if only my visa allowed! When I came there was the family 4, Nanny, Chau and… read more another volunteer living in the house so Sunny kindly let me sleep in her room! I soon got my own room but overlapping with another volunteer really helped actually! I feel I came during a difficult time for the family and they were all rather busy with their studies and jobs. They all work extremely hard! However, they still tried their best to spend some time with me! I would recommend going during the school holidays so that you can spend some quality time with all of the family including Nelly and Sunny.
Although, everyday I spent hours playing with Nelly and her friends and they are all very good at English! Nelly loves watching English YouTube videos so if you can sing along with them she loves it! She’s very easy to play with and loves colouring so just incorporate English in this. She also has bundles of energy so try to keep up!
With Sunny we spent hours on end perfecting applications for American schools for her to study abroad next year. She speaks perfect English and loves horror films! We managed to watch one on Halloween but otherwise she studies so hard it was difficult to spend time together unless it was doing work. I hope the next volunteer takes her to Sun World as I didn’t get the chance! I expect Sunny will have a great future and can’t wait to see her songs published!
Sadly I am vegetarian so couldn’t try any of the amazing dishes the mother had cooked. Vietnam is difficult being veggie anyway so I wouldn’t expect the family to accommodate this, but they did still give me rice, veg and nuts a few times!
I really enjoyed teaching both Chau and Henry, Do’s niece and nephew. They are both lovely people and really keen to learn! Chau is 18 and is trying to grasp speaking English but understands words themselves. Just speak slowly and clearly to her. Whereas Henry is 16 and is almost perfect just needs help with grammar and he is a little shy so prompting him really helps. Chau always bought work with her to our lessons and Henry only needed help speaking so I didn’t have to prepare for either teaching lessons. Just hold a good, grammatically correct, conversation! They are very chilled and you can decide when’s best to teach but I did: 2 hours with Chau every Mon, Weds and Friday. With Henry we done 1 hour Weds and Friday.
A few recommendations for the next volunteers: use the mosquito net! It’s in the room just have to find it under the desk, hang it up because otherwise you will be easily bitten! Always ask Sunny if you need any questions answered. TMS Coffee shop next door has super fast WiFi so go there if you need to do any work with faster WiFi. Also, try to keep weekends free to spend with the family if you can, as during the week you won’t see them as much.
As long as you’re an easy-going, independent and confident person you’ll fit in fine! I really enjoyed my time in Da Nang and done a few tours and trips from there, it’s a good base for a few weeks!
Thanks again Do for welcoming me and I wish all of the family the best of luck in the future. Can’t wait to hear about the children as they grow up!
Feel free to message me with any questions I could’ve written an essay about my amazing time here!

(Excellent )

07/10/2018

Left by Workawayer (Silo) for host

I was welcomed into the family straight away, the family consisted of Do, Lien, Nelly and Sunny along with Do's mother at the time, a cousin and a nanny for Nelly (the grandmother and nanny do not speak English).
Sunny is by far the brightest thirteen year old I've ever met! Nelly herself is an adorable four year old full of energy and loves to… read more

(Excellent )

12/09/2018

Left by host for Workawayer (Fábio & Helena)

It was a great time having this couple staying with us!
At first, I didn't believe that it is easy to get along but Fábio & Helena are matured and result-oriented people so that they helped us a lot even they are not native speakers.

(Excellent )

06/09/2018

Left by Workawayer (Fábio & Helena) for host

We had only 3 days with Do and his family, but it was nice. Unfortunately, we forgot to inform that our date of arrival had changed but Do was kind enough to receive us in his house and share with us some moments.
Sunny, Do's older daughter, is very smart and speaks very well english. She teached us some things about the Vietnamese culture and… read more

(Very good )

05/04/2018

Left by Workawayer (Audréanne & Justine) for host

What a wonderful loving, caring and open-minded family! My trip in Da Nang was amazing, I couldn't asked for more. I had great conversations with Do, played a lot of games with Nelly and was always beyond happy to listen to Sunny about her school, ambitions and of course her piano. The mom is an excellent cook and a very sweet person, you will… read more

(Excellent )

10/11/2017

Left by Workawayer (Ben & Toni-Rose) for host

(Do, so sorry for the delayed review!)
We stayed with Do and his family for 2 weeks around mid-July 2017 and we had such a great time. We really enjoyed our time together, laughing and getting to know each other. From the moment we arrived, we felt so welcomed. Sunny, is an intelligent, charismatic young lady with a love for horror films. We… read more

(Excellent )

01/07/2017

Left by host for Workawayer (JULIAN)

This family is a nice one as well. They always want to share with you their experience. They respect others as their kind hearts. It is interesting to host this family, sure! Especially, their little daughter will make you feel love is very close around you.

(Very good )

30/06/2017

Left by Workawayer (JULIAN) for host

This experience was really amazing for our family! Unfortunately we spend just a week with them.

Do, his daughters and all his family are beautiful persons, always tried to help us and taking care of our baby. Sunny is a smart girl who play the piano and sing very well, we play with the girls and went out to see the fire works festival. I… read more

(Excellent )

17/06/2017

Left by Workawayer (Irina) for host

I stayed with Do and his family for two months and I couldn't have enjoyed my time more. They have taken me out, invited me for dinner and made me feel like a part of their family. I had a great time and can definitely recommend Do and his family as hosts, they are wonderful people.

(Excellent )

16/03/2017

Left by host for Workawayer (Mariona & Lidia )

I was very happy when having these 2 easy-going volunteers staying with my family. They always sat down and shared with us what they experienced. They also eager to learn something new. Helping my daughter is also their hobbies. Although, we did not spend much time together but I would like to recommend you to host them, you will love them as I… read more

(Excellent )

08/03/2017

Left by Workawayer (Mariona & Lidia ) for host

We had a really nice stay with Do and his family. Even if our stay wasn't so long we could appreciate how is the daily life of a Vietnamese family and they were always willing to answer our questions regarding vietnamese culture.
The place where they live is a really nice area because is quite and non-touristic, next to beach and full of good… read more

(Excellent )

25/10/2016

Left by Workawayer (Indre) for host

Do and his family were amazing hosts, they made me feel like at home and after traveling for a while it felt really cozy :)
Thank you for hosting me, for sharing highlights of Vietnamese culture and issues, and for all the meals I was invited to :)
I really loved being a part of your family and enjoyed all the conversations we had. I really like… read more

(Excellent )

08/09/2016

Left by Workawayer (Tiffany) for host

Do and his family were wonderful hosts. I felt very welcome during my short stay in their home. I was given a key to come and go as I pleased, but I very much enjoyed spending time with th family. Do and his wife are extremely generous, inviting me to share in home cooked meals and taking me for dinner and dessert in Hoi An on one occasion. Sunny… read more

(Excellent )

26/06/2016

Left by Workawayer (Uliana) for host

This is was first workaway project for me and my friend and everything was great! Do is very nice host and his daughter Sunny is lovely and curious girl with fluent English. And younger daughter Nelly is supercute kid :)
it was big experience of leaving in Vietnamese family, and to meet up closely with local customs and habits. Thank you very… read more

(Excellent )

01/06/2016

Left by host for Workawayer (Katy)

Katy,

Thank you for giving us a perfect feedback, :). You also brought us a lot of interesting stuffs.
I’m happy that you enjoyed your stay and I’m looking forward to seeing you again.
Do

(Excellent )

30/05/2016

Left by Workawayer (Katy) for host

I stayed with Do and his family for almost two weeks while I was volunteering at a cafe. I had a great time with the family as everyone was very friendly and helpful, and I felt truly welcomed. Do's 11-year old daughter is incredibly smart and outgoing and I enjoyed talking to her a lot. I usually had work during the day but for the evenings, I… read more

(Excellent )

28/04/2016

Left by host for Workawayer (Heather)

Thanks Heather,

We were also very lucky when having you stay with us.
That was a great period of time!

Hope to see you around!
Do

(Excellent )

25/04/2016

Left by Workawayer (Heather) for host

I was lucky enough to stay with Do and his family for two weeks while I volunteered at the English Speaking Cafe in Danang and I had a fantastic time. I was well looked after, always invited out with the family and made good friends with his two daughters.
The house is clean, modern and safe. It's in a nice area just 10 minutes walk from a… read more

(Excellent )

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