Hi all! I thought that’s how you always get someone who knows English. I always thought they matched the volunteer to the person requesting the help by language so that makes logical sense to me. I have never had anyone who’s cocky enough to think they know more English than they actually did; so they must test volunteers for English fluency, or fluency of other language for folks who don’t speak English as well. I believe that in the case of English, they must test volunteers when they regester, particularly for when the volunteer has learned English later in life as an additional language. Ok, that’s my guess because there are always the brave and cocky folks who claim to know a language when they only know a few words of it; which includes English too. reminder: learning a whole language is not at all the same thing as learning just a few words in a language. They are two totally different ball games. The difference is day and night for those who have not attempted this kind of activity. Well, I have since I’m still at it with learning Spanish and have been at it with Spanish for 5 years now, so speaking from first hand experience here. With that said, I’d hope that Be My Eyes has such a system to weed out the overly confident folks to avoid preventable language barrier problems. I have not heard anyone complaining about getting volunteers who don’t know as much English in them as they’d like so they must have some sort of system to prevent such problems. I’m glad if they do because it avoids a lot of headaches, especially in the monolangual English speaking world.
Kendra Please excuse any errors that sneak past my editing attempts. Thank you for taking the time to read my email message! Kendra Schaber Pronouns: she, her and her's I'm a multicultural who's always learning about the world. I'm a language learner who knows from first hand experience that languages are more complicated than we ever know until we learn a new language for the very first time. I'm not an expert in any calture, including my own. If i'm an expert in anything, it's my own lived experiences. May we all embrace diversity and improve the environment! Blessed be! “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.”, author unknown ________________________________ From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Eric Caron <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2025 3:27:08 PM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Be My Eyes question No worries, I read about this years ago. They put the calls into places that are in different time zones but still speak your chosen language. Use the app and let folks waiting for calls get a chance to participate. Eric Caron > On Oct 20, 2025, at 4:26 PM, alapointe89 via VIPhone > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello all, not sure that this is the list to post this but thought it is > okay as we use it on iPhone. > I am finding that I need to use Be My Eyes around 2:00am to around 8:00a on > a daily basis. I have used Be My Eyes a few times but at reasonable hours. I > have tried to contact th Be My Eyes team to ask if I was to call the App > very early in the morning or late night if it would wake someone up. I use > Iar when I can use the free 5 minutes and that works great and I know that > they are there waiting for calls. I am in the eastern time zone here in > Mass. How does this work? Is there a system with Be My Eyes that controls > who gets a call that early? 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