italki Mobile Proxies: See Your Teacher Page as US Students Do
italki is a marketplace for language teachers and students. Many of its teachers live in China and Vietnam and many of their students live in the United States. The student search page, the order of teacher cards, the price shown in US dollars and the trial lesson offers all depend on where the student is. A teacher in Guangzhou who searches for Mandarin teachers sees one list; a student in Los Angeles sees another. American Mobile Proxies gives a real Verizon, AT&T or T-Mobile SIM in an American city, so a teacher abroad can see italki the way an American student does. This page explains how to use that view honestly.
What the American student sees on italki
The Find a Teacher page lets a student filter by language, price, availability, where the teacher is from and what the teacher speaks. The order of results, the recommended teachers and the price in US dollars depend on the student's region. The trial lesson price and the italki credits purchase page are also regional. From outside the United States you cannot see the American order, and a consumer VPN with a data center address may get a generic page or a check. A carrier SIM address is a normal American phone address, so the page is the real student view.
Checking your own profile and placement
Open italki from the American SIM without signing in. Search for your language with the filters a typical student uses, such as a price range and an availability window in American evening hours. Find your card. Note the position, the price shown, the first words of your introduction and the thumbnail of your video. Look at the teachers above you and what they show. Update your profile, wait a week, and check again. Keep the same SIM for the month so each check is comparable.
Do not sign in to your teacher account through the SIM. italki expects your teacher account to be used from your real location, and a login from another country can trigger a security review. Do not create student accounts to book or review yourself. Fake reviews and self-booking break italki's rules and ours, and italki removes teachers for it.
Hours that make sense in American time
Students see your availability in their own time zone. A slot you open at 21:00 in Hanoi is 10:00 in New York and 07:00 in Los Angeles. Set the browser profile time zone to the SIM's city and open your public profile from the SIM; the calendar then shows the hours as an American student sees them. Our cities cover Eastern time in New York, Boston, Miami and North Carolina, Central in Chicago and Houston, Mountain in Phoenix and Pacific in Los Angeles. Move the line for free between cities to see how your hours look on each coast and adjust your schedule.
Schools, agencies and research teams
Language schools in Asia that place their teachers on italki use one American SIM to review all their teachers' public pages from the student side. Companies that compete with italki compare US prices for the same language and the same experience level. Localisation testers compare italki's Chinese or Vietnamese interface with the American English one. All of these jobs are public page reading. Read at a human pace, rotate between batches if you read many pages, and do not scrape profiles in bulk. italki's terms forbid it.
Buying a line from abroad
A 4G line is $6 a day, $30 a week or $68 a month; 5G is $7, $33 or $78. The hourly test is $2 for the first two hours on 4G and $3 on 5G, up to four hours, and never renews by itself. It is enough to check your placement once. Pay with USDT TRC-20, other crypto, cards, PayPal, Zelle or wire on request. The dashboard at space.americanmobileproxies.com is in English, 简体中文 and Tiếng Việt. Add the proxy to a browser profile, set the time zone, confirm the address on an IP check page and open italki.com. If your connection to America is slow, ask support about a VLESS tunnel to the SIM. Support answers by email and Telegram at any hour.
Setting up a italki proxy on American Mobile Proxies
- Buy a line in the US city where most of your students live.
- Add the proxy to a browser profile and set the time zone to that city.
- Confirm a US carrier address on an IP check page.
- Search italki for your language as a visitor and find your own card.
- Record position, price and calendar; check again after you update your profile.
italki proxy questions
Can I teach lessons through the SIM?
No. Use your teacher account from your real location, as italki requires. The SIM is for seeing the student side.
Will the price on my card be different?
italki shows the price in the student's currency and sometimes rounds it. The SIM shows the exact US dollar figure an American student sees.
Is one hourly test enough?
For one placement check, yes. For weekly checks after profile changes, the monthly plan is simpler.
