Learning/Teaching/Educational Channel of Russian as Foreign

OlgaBer

Miss Teacher
I have posted my previous topic but it disappeared for some reason. I decided to post once again.
I have my channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEd_SbU6jOn8l9aSLmkluew/featured?view_as=subscriber
I am going to create something like Earworms (Rapid French, Russian, German; have you heard?), Book2 (from Goethe Verlag), Pimsleur or Berlitz Courses.
I have seen several interesting channels teaching English as a Foreign (Second) Language, for instance, like that: https://www.youtube.com/user/Gifukids
or like that https://www.youtube.com/user/JenniferESL
The idea of my channel is to create something like Russian Visual Dictionary/Russian Conversation Course/Crash Course for Beginners/Russian for Dummies/Russian in Cartoons or something like that. Is that worth making??
Should I proceed with that?? Because the idea is actually not really unique, I just noticed that there are few Russian courses for foreigners (beginners, elementary).
But I have wasted too much efforts, energy and money on my English Telegram channel ( in vain) and I don't know if it is really worth trying to proceed with Youtube... I have not achieved any success with my Telegram channel (well, I achieved some results, but they did not really not correspond with the time I had wasted on that...)
 
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It's a little bit difficult to answer you as just a YouTube video maker. Teaching foreign language is a specific job with specific skills. And if the competition is Pimsleur and Berlitz, they have some substantial experience and recognition.

The quality of videos itself looks ok for me.
But, I learned some German and some Russian with the Assimil method, and an important part of the trick for me is that this is based on dialogues. Sometimes funny, nonsensical dialogues that you tend to remember and that helps you remember the words. If you can do small animations with dialogues, it would be better in my opinion than just showing 3 times a plane and the associated word.
Good luck.
 
It's a little bit difficult to answer you as just a YouTube video maker. Teaching foreign language is a specific job with specific skills. And if the competition is Pimsleur and Berlitz, they have some substantial experience and recognition.
Thank you for your quick and interesting response and support. Actually, I have some experience in Teaching English as a Foreign/Second Language. I passed some TEFL/TESOL courses (Teaching English as a Foreign Language from the English Language Teaching Institute at Hunter College, City University of New York and Teaching English as a Second Language from Arizona State University), I know some principles of Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language, I tried some courses of teaching Russian for foreigners from Pushkin Institute (where they were open), besides I have a Bachelor degree in Linguistics: Theory and practice of cross-cultural communication, and now I am doing my Master's degree in Fundamental and Applied Lingustics.
I am just curious if you know any other, similar channels of teaching Russian as a foreign language for beginners. I tried to search, but I have not found any courses similar like mine. I know that any channel like "10 funny accidents in sport" will be much more profitable, but I cannot create anything except language videos... I just don't have enough materials and ideas to create a really hype channel where will be lots of clickbait and fans. My content is pretty boring but some language hackers may be interested in that I believe...
 
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