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We are a 14-year-old institute, working on English practice for learners. Our attendees and team are all easy-going and fun. Including my wife and me, we are a team of 8-10 people from different countries. Our sessions start at 5 pm and 7.30 pm during the week and we need our workawayers to take 2 hours a day just at 7.30 pm. All the systems and the topics are ready. It's a fun and easy job.
Our institute is located in the centre of Istanbul, in the old city, Fatih. Topkapı Palace and Hagia Sophia are about 4-5 km away and Taksim is 5 km away. Our accommodation is 350 metres from our Cafe and we have shopping centres a lot of good restaurants and some of the best restaurants in Istanbul in our district. Central tramway and metro lines are 200 metres and 400 metres from the Cafe and our flat is even much closer to transportation.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Language practice
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Our attendees are all educated and friendly people. What you will get is a lot of good connections and true friends from Istanbul. Workawayers will learn a lot about our culture and you will meet a lot of people from a lot of different professions. Our institute is the first speaking club in Turkey. That means you will talk, interact, learn and have a great time. As our work is about making people speak English, our workawayers will learn how to manage a group and how to moderate a conversation. We have a topic-based system in our app, where they will see the speaking topics about cultural and common subjects. The part is like all we do, being one of the speaking moderators and managing the ongoing conversations. You will be one of our speaking moderators, or in other terms teachers. Our attendees will learn how to teach English and manage language acquisition with our very complex and on the other hand very easy-to-manage teaching methodology. It's a great chance to learn about Turkish culture and lifestyle while moderating speaking sessions talking about daily, cultural and fun topics.
Help
We have 4 levels of groups in the cafe at the same time both at 5 pm and 7.30 pm, each group managed by one of our native or native-like speakers. As we already have a speaking curriculum, which is like a course book in our application and website, workawayers don't need to prepare any materials or lesson preparation. Our work is not a teaching job, it's managing a speaking group and their conversation, our attendees learn and practice the language in the group. We need native or native-like English speakers to manage the speaking sessions. It's not like running a lesson but it's more like running a group and their conversation following the topics in our system. You will follow the topics in our mobile app and extend the conversation according to the attendees of the speaking session.
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Accommodation
We have a flat in the centre of Istanbul, where we can host 3 workawayers and we have a nearby restaurant where you can have one healthy and clean meal for about one Euro, about 30-40 meters away. Free tea coffee and drinks in the cafe. We are an institute, working like a cafe and speaking club. We offer workawayers unlimited tea, water and coffee in our cafe
What else ...
As our cafe and flat are located in the old city, transportation is effortless all around Istanbul from our district
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
We have a wifi connection both in our apartment and the cafe, workawayers can do their online lessons in their free time
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
2-4 hours a day, 4-5 days in the week. weekly 10 hours inm total
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I spent a month at the cafe in May last year. My time at the cafe with Altan and the crew was a fantastic experience and one of the most rewarding things I've ever done. I truly enjoyed every moment with the… read more
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I spent a month at the cafe in May last year. My time at the cafe with Altan and the crew was a fantastic experience and one of the most rewarding things I've ever done. I truly enjoyed every moment with the… read more
Altan, Esra and Yaren, thank you guys for making this… read more
He was really friendly and easy-going. He became one of us. We would be happy if he stayed longer. He just stayed one month but he was really good and we would love to have him again. Thank you so much for supporting us and always helping when we needed it.
We wish you the best in the future too, see you again :)))
This Workaway it's amazing!! It is an incredible opportunity to meet local people and submerge yourself in Turkish culture. I had such a great time here, I want to thank Altan and Esra for this fantastic opportunity!!
What I really liked about the job was the cultural exchange I experienced, talking with local people from Istanbul… read more
First of all, I felt very welcomed from the moment I stepped into the cafe. As a non-native speaker with no experience in… read more
