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Teaching In Thailand Being a international school teacher in Thailand can be a great career with salaries in the range of $2,500 to $6,000 per month, or you could become a TEFLer teaching English with a salary range of 350-600 pounds per month, although with many teaching jobs it could be worth doing a TEFL course even if no experience is necessary, but will teaching students fulfil your overseas jobs yearnings? Is a English language teaching job something you really want to do? Can you teach English?

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Old 20-08-2009, 08:49 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Any chance for getting a teaching job for non native speaker in Thailand?

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I am 23, originally polish, although have been living in London for last couple of years. I spent 3 months backpacking in Thailand and I absolutely love the place!

As I mentioned in the title, I would like to know what is a realistic chance for getting a teaching job in Thailand, if let’s say, I obtained bachelor's degree in English philology and TEFL course?

I don’t mind to work in smaller town and certainly I am aware that my earnings would never reach your level, but after all, if I wanted money, I would simply stay in Europe.
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Old 21-08-2009, 08:12 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Since no one wants to reply, I will response to myself I've done some research and there are some Scandinavian blokes teaching in Thailand which means it is possible. Also, I actually don’t mind to work in any other country of Thai neighbourhood and according to my research, it would be much easier to find employment in Cambodia which is wild west for english teaching in SE Asia.
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Old 21-08-2009, 08:15 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Since no one wants to reply, I will response to myself
I don't think it's a case of not wanting to reply

Most of us haven't a fucking clue when it comes to this subject
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Old 21-08-2009, 08:20 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Yes, you can work here, I know a hungarian lady that teaches in Chiang Mai at a Private school, Very easy to get a job here, there are a lot of dorks that have jobs as teachers.
Doesn't seem to be that much of a problem, especially if you are a reasonably attractive lady.
Thai prefer pretty people, they think I am great, and my wife is also a teacher.
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I've been teaching in Thailand 3 years and I do not think you would have any serious problem finding employment here. As long as your English skills are good and your accent not too pronounced, you'll do fine here. They hire many Philippinos, and English is not their native language, many of them just speak it. You are from where you last lived, so you are from England and were born in Poland. The pay here for teachers is quite low, but it's a fun job. Also, since teaching a language here is as much about culture as it is about teaching language, the fact you "look white" (sorry I cannot think of a better way to say it) will actually mean you are more employable than the Philippinos.
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Sadly, yes. Even worse, they'll employ Northern Monkeys as English teachers.
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You'll be able to find work in vietnam, burma, laos and indonesia also.
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Ok., thanks guys, I appreciate your opinions and advises Well, I still have a long way to improve my own English before I can teach it to others, but being surrounded by English speaking people at all times, from girlfriend which I share flat with, to all colleagues at work, makes all the process much quicker. Don’t know if it would help much, but I could get British passport very soon (which is quite useless and costs 700 quids).

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Sadly, yes. Even worse, they'll employ Northern Monkeys as English teachers.
Dude, I truly believe that, let’s say, educated Austrian teaching English is going to be far better than average British chav with problems to speak properly in his own language. The fact of being native English doesn’t necessary make you better teacher. I’ve met loads of people not even realising how incorrected they are.

The next thing is, I took a part of voluntary project providing English education for children in Cambodia and, gods, no matter how bad I would be with my English, I am still roughly 10 times better than the local teachers which really is sad indeed.
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Ahh and btw, has calling others a "northern monkey" anything to do with avatar of Kingwilly?
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Better to speak American English, I have a relative here of my wife and she speaks UK English and you can't understand her either.
And MTD and KW have kissed and made up, but KW is still an Ape.
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True. It's dumbed down so it is easier for people to learn.
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Ok., thanks guys, I appreciate your opinions and advises Well, I still have a long way to improve my own English before I can teach it to others, but being surrounded by English speaking people at all times, from girlfriend which I share flat with, to all colleagues at work, makes all the process much quicker. Don’t know if it would help much, but I could get British passport very soon (which is quite useless and costs 700 quids).

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Any chance for getting a teaching job for non native speaker in Thailand?
Sadly, yes. Even worse, they'll employ Northern Monkeys as English teachers.
Dude, I truly believe that, let’s say, educated Austrian teaching English is going to be far better than average British chav with problems to speak properly in his own language. The fact of being native English doesn’t necessary make you better teacher. I’ve met loads of people not even realising how incorrected they are.

The next thing is, I took a part of voluntary project providing English education for children in Cambodia and, gods, no matter how bad I would be with my English, I am still roughly 10 times better than the local teachers which really is sad indeed.
redded for being a crap troll.

I dont think your english is as bad as you are pretending,

i dont think you are looking for a job teaching.


I suspect that you are EN or Scumpoy
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Old 28-08-2009, 05:13 AM   #13 (permalink)
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I dont think your english is as bad as you are pretending
Lol, thank you for a nice compliment! I must a admit, I find it really hilarious that at the same time you praise my English ability, you use two words of meaning I do not know (e.g. ‘redded’ and ‘Scumpoy’).

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I suspect that you are EN or Scumpoy
Lol, you are so suspicious. You would do great as police investigator! Although I do not seek employment right now, I strongly do consider teaching career in SEA in the future and therefore do some research.But why on Earth would I pretend to be someone else???
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Better to speak American English
True. It's dumbed down so it is easier for people to learn.
I think it's more regarding the accent. For instance, even though I have been living in London for almost 4 years, I still find it much easier to understand Americans than British. That could be also because most of the films on TV are American.
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What makes me troll? I do not post anything controversial, irrelevant or off-topic nor intent to provoke other users. In fact, all I did was creating thread about teaching in Thailand, on Thai related forum.
Apparently you miss understand what trolling means.
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He knows what it is alright, he just don't like others in his territory.
We need more cute little Pollock chicks in Thailand.
Especially if they can cook.
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originally polish, although have been living in London for last couple of years
Still Polish are you not?

Anyone with a pulse can teach English in Thailand. Even former Poles. Good luck.
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Paknam Webs has a forum that has a very cute Hungarian lady that teaches, go there and look and talk to her, Her name is Betti and she lives in Chiang Mai.

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