 Hello, welcome to another live session by ITTT. My name is Linda, welcome to this week's live stream, yay, welcome, welcome. How are you all doing? I hope you're doing well, I hope you brought with you a lot of interesting questions for today because this is what we're going to talk about today. Today we're just going to have a casual Tefal talk Q&A kind of situation. So you can ask your questions about Tefal, TESOL, teaching English abroad, teaching English online, all of those things. Today is, yeah, your turn. So you can ask your questions, anything that you have that's on your mind. Feel free to ask. Today is your time. Before we jump in, please don't forget to like and subscribe. Like our Facebook page, subscribe to our YouTube channel. We share a lot of amazing, useful content on a daily basis. Even if you're already teaching, you can use it in your classroom. These tips, also a lot of printable things. If you're not yet teaching, a lot of things that will help you to reach that goal and teach in the future. So don't miss it. Please like and subscribe. And also so that you're reminded for any future life sessions that we do. We go live twice a week once me and one time my colleague Lisa, who is a non-native English teacher from Russia. And she has a lot of really, really great tips, especially for non-native English teachers. But I also learned a lot from her. And actually, she was the reason she kind of got me into teaching English online. She knows a lot about teaching English online. And she did a very, very nice live session about teaching online. And then I got into it, thanks to her. So that's also what we're doing here. Also, if you can see me, if you can hear me, let me know. I already see someone is here. We have Braheem, hi, and Mikey, hey there. Thanks so much for tuning in. Also, everybody else, let me know where you are right now. Where are you watching from? And I actually prepared something really fun. I hope it's what it's working. What I'd like you to do is, if you can, click on the link that I'm sharing right now and then type in the country where you are watching from right now, OK? So this link looks like this. And let me know where are you watching from? Where are you watching from right now? And then it should appear over here. It should appear here on our screen. So let's see if that works. Oh, great. Looks like it's working. Great. All right, I'm also going to participate. Let me put my country in real quick. Yeah. Cool. We have people from Tunisia, from Germany. That's me. Uzbekistan, Turkey, United States. Awesome. All right, we have Azad Kashmir. Great. Very, very cool, all right. Awesome. Keep it coming so that we can then see where everybody's watching from should be really, really fun. And yeah, once we get that down, while we're doing that, you guys keep doing, if anybody hasn't filled it out yet. I also want to mention that we do have a 30% off opportunity, as always, 30% off your TEFL or T-SOL course. And I'm just preparing the link so that you can take advantage of that. So it looks like this. You can click on this link, fill out your application to any TEFL or T-SOL course from ITTT, and you get a 30% discount off of the entire course. So that is my gift from me to you today. So you can take advantage of that. Awesome. Cool. Well, we can check in as more people join this live. We can check in and see what other countries are on our map today as well. So welcome, everybody. I am in Germany currently. I am originally from Germany, but actually, I live in South Korea. But right now, I am back home in Germany over the holidays, and I'm coming back to Korea next year. All right. What country appeared, I think, was Kazakhstan that appeared now. Awesome. Cool. Well, it's a great mix. Thank you so much for joining, and I hope you have prepared some questions for me. I also have some slides. I also prepared a few things that I want to tell you that I think are really, really important when it comes to TEFL and T-SOL. And yeah, if anybody wants to start, feel free to ask a question. And I also, let's just turn this off for a second. We're going to come back to it. This is also the 30% off opportunity, so you can also scan the QR code, or you can use the link that I just shared in the comments, which looks like this. All right. And then I'm opening officially this Q&A session. Feel free to ask any questions about TEFL, T-SOL, Teaching English Broad online, whatever you want to know. And we can start from there. Also, a brief introduction, perhaps, first about myself if someone's watching for the first time. My name is Linda. I'm a travel writer and content creator. My name, my online name, is Linda Goes East, because I've always been obsessed with Asia. And I've been living in Asia for a while now. You can find my own content at lindegoseast.com and also on Instagram, at lindegoseast.com. I share a lot of informative content and pictures on there as well. And like I said, I'm originally from Germany and the US. My mom is German, my dad is American. But I've been based in Asia for the past almost 10 years. I lived in China and also now in South Korea for the past six and a half years. On the other side, I am a Teflon TESOL marketing professional for ITTT, which stands for International Teflon and TESOL Training. You can find ITTT online at tefloncourse.net and also on Instagram and other social media platforms. But on Instagram, we are at International Teflon Training. And what is ITTT? If you don't know, ITTT is a leading Teflon and TESOL course provider worldwide. So that's what we're doing today. Maybe let's have another look at our world map. It's not a map, but. And you can let me know where you are right now. I'm just going to share this link one more time. How do I get this link one more time? So that maybe if someone's tuning in just now, you can click here on this mentee link that works for you. And you can type in the country where you're watching from right now. And as we move through this live session, we're going to see this mind map grow with more places. Hopefully that should be a fun thing for today. And then I'm going to look at comments. All right. Raheem is asking the first question. How can we meet each other in person? That is really funny. I love it. Well, you either have to come to Germany because I'm in Germany now, or you need to come to South Korea because I live there in Europe. Great. We have a question here from Ebrar. And I'm just going to make myself bigger again. I like talking with you more face to face. She says, hey, Linda, I want to work in Sweden as an English teacher, but they say that it is hard to find a job. Do you have any ideas about it? Great question. Yeah, so Europe, especially like Northern Europe, can be more tricky to get in. That's definitely true. This has to do with your passport, your nationality. It is more difficult to find a job without sponsorship. So most of those schools, they already hire people who have a work permit to work there. So it can be a little bit more tricky. If you do have that, then there should be no big problem. But yeah, so if people who really want to go to Europe, we usually recommend the Czech Republic or places like Spain, Portugal, Italy, they tend to be a little bit easier to get into. Because also in Italy and in Spain, you can apply for a language course. And that gets you a student visa. And with this student visa, you can actually also work a certain amount of hours, a week or a month. And so it's a little bit easier to get into. With Sweden, it is definitely a little bit more harder. However, if you are a TEFL and TESOL graduate from ITTT, we help you with job guidance and job placement. We help you find a position. But it's also not 100% guaranteed. It always depends on your background, what I was just saying. So yeah, maybe you need to be a little bit more flexible. And then once you have gained a little bit more experience in the field and you're networking, you can then go to Sweden and find a job there. I hope that kind of makes sense and helps you. Thank you for the question. OK. All right. Then we have here a question from Abdul Salam. Hi, thank you. He says, thanks, Linda. It's great to me to follow you because I am a student of the English language. Awesome. Thank you. Thanks for following. Great. And Brahim has another question. Brahim going to Cambodia scares me a little. I don't know maybe if I'm going to get a job or not. Cambodia is definitely one of the places where it's a little bit easier to find a position. Also, especially as a non-native English speaker, Southeast Asia tends to be one of the best regions, actually, for non-native English teachers. They also hire non-native English teachers. They're not as picky as other regions. So I would definitely give it a go. And don't be scared of Cambodia. Definitely try and apply first always. And this goes for everyone. Apply, even maybe if you don't fulfill all the job requirements of a job offer, still apply. Because sometimes, usually, these job offers, they have utopian requirements. Nobody can 100% fulfill those. So if there's a job that you think you would like, just go for it and apply. The worst thing that can happen is that they just reject you. They don't reply. That's the worst thing that can happen. Even if you apply to 500 different jobs, just try. And one of them will probably get back to you. So never give up. That's my advice. All right. Do we have any other people here who participated for our mind map here? I think I need to share the link again, but OK. I forget how to do it. Let me try and retrieve this link. I think I got it. One second, because I think we have some new viewers. So if you just tuned in, please, please, please participate. I'm going to share it one more time. So we can grow our mind map. Oh, no, that's the wrong link. Great. I just put copy link, and it didn't do the curve. OK. Excuse me. All right. Here, mentee links. Go to here. Anybody who just tuned in and just put in the country where you're watching from. We can see this mentee mind map grow a little bit of all the countries and the people who are watching today. If you can already see your country, you can still put it in, because then it's actually going to get bigger. And we know that there are more people watching from a certain country. So that's also really interesting. Hello, Matya from Bangladesh is back. I remember you. Thank you so much for tuning in again. That's great. All right. Should I switch back to my slides? Let me see. OK. So I think one of the first things that I want to talk about is, let me see that, this. The difference between TEFEL and TESOL, so. Because I think maybe some of you are completely new to TEFEL and TESOL, so I just want to let you know what is it all about? What is TEFEL about? What is TESOL about? What does it all mean? Let's start from the very beginning. TEFEL stands for teaching English as a foreign language, and TESOL stands for teaching English to speakers of other languages. And the training that's involved, so whether you take a TEFEL course or a TESOL course, the things you learn in the units are exactly the same. The only difference between TEFEL and TESOL is the usage. So as you can see here, TEFEL is most commonly used within the UK and Europe as a term, and TESOL is usually preferred in Australia and the US and Canada. So that is the only difference. They are the exact same thing is what I'm trying to say. So at ITTT, you can actually choose whether your certificate says TEFEL or TESOL on your certificate. However, you also have the ITTT logo, which also says TEFEL and TESOL, both in the name. So you will have both TEFEL and TESOL, both acronyms on your certificate anyway, but you can then still choose in the text. And it says on the certificate, if you wanted to say, you know, successfully completed a 120-hour TEFEL course or TESOL course. You can choose that depending on which term you want to prefer. Okay, cool. Yeah, that's the only difference. I think most of you probably already knew that. So we just wanted to put it out there, mention it, because I know some of you are watching for the first time, which is awesome. And thank you so much for tuning in. Okay, as always feel free. I'm just going back to this. So it's your time. You can ask any question that you have about TEFEL, TESOL, teaching English abroad. I'm sure you have a ton of questions if you haven't started doing that yet. So please just type in your questions, anything. I always say there are no stupid questions. Now is your opportunity. I am here for you and I am doing my best to answer your questions today. We usually do these Q and A's. I do them once a month. And on the other days that I do a live session, it usually has a topic. All right, here. Ooh, you have a really difficult thing to say. Kudratula, I hope I'm saying that right, probably not. Can I just say Mazar? Mazar has a question, which is not resolved. Okay, sure, go ahead. What's your question? I'd be happy to answer. Go right ahead. And also let me know where you're from. I don't think, yeah, I didn't see that in the comments yet. All right, meanwhile, while we're waiting for Mazar's question, please, you guys also think about anything that you might wanna know or anything from the news about teaching that you recently learned, anything. It doesn't have to be a question. It can just be something you wanna add to our conversation today. I'm just thinking if I should open up some other slides. Oh yeah, this could also be a good question. Actually, we could ask everybody, I'm curious about, which specialized TEFL and TESOL chords are you most interested in? We have teaching business English, we have teaching English to young learners and we have teaching English online. Which are you most interested in and why or which one have you already taken? And if you've taken all of them, which one was your favorite? Let me know. All right, we have a question here from Ebraar who says, I'm having a hard time to find places to get experience, do you have any suggestions? Yeah, it's difficult, right? Because a lot of places they want experience already. I know that especially in Asia, there they hire a lot of inexperienced teachers. But if going abroad, going to Asia, like China, China is a little bit difficult right now, Thailand, Vietnam. I know it is difficult at the moment to go out. So what a lot of teachers are actually doing is they are getting into teaching English online to get experience. So maybe that would be something for you that you can try out. There are a lot of different online teaching platforms actually that also hire not only native speakers, but also non-native English speakers. There are so many different platforms. Some of them are specifically targeted at children. Some are only for adult learners. So it really depends. And you have so many to choose from. So maybe that would be something that you could, excuse me, try out and get into online teaching first to gain experience. And then once maybe the global situation improves, you can then go abroad and you already have experience under your belt. And like I just mentioned, in the beginning, I actually also started teaching English online this year. So yeah. All right, Juliana says teaching English online. All right, why is this the specialized course you are most interested in? Or you think is the best? Why? Are you currently teaching English online? Let us know and maybe also your experience and how that course maybe helped you. That'd be really interesting. I also took the teaching English online course as well. The first specialized course that I took was the young learners course actually because I was already teaching children at the time. And it kind of helped me get them more under control and classroom management and things like that. And then I moved on to teaching business English. And I also started teaching business professionals after that which is very different from teaching children. So that course definitely also helped. And then when the teaching English online course came out, I also took that one. And I started teaching English online this year and this course has definitely also helped me do that because that's also very different because you can't use many of the tools you would normally use in the classroom. So you really need to learn how to adapt. So yeah. All right, Mathieu says I want to do a TEFL course but I think is it possible for me to get the TEFL certificate by overcoming all the stages to be followed online as I'm not so expert in computer? Yeah, I think didn't you ask the same question last time? Kind of remember something similar. You do not need to be a computer expert at all. I'm not a computer expert. I don't do any IT or anything. It's super easy to navigate through the platform. Actually we did a live session before where I showed live how the online teaching platform looks like. So if you go into the playlist, you'll see that video there. It was probably almost a year ago now when I did that and you can scroll down. We have it, I see you're watching on YouTube. So we have a live videos playlist on YouTube and you can scroll down and you can see that and you can see how it works. It's super easy. I had to recommend you check out that video so you can actually see what it's really like and then you can decide whether or not that is maybe too difficult for you or not but it's really quite simple, quite simple. You just log in and all of the content is there. You don't have to download any special programs or anything like that. Here we have a question from Umair. Umair, hope I'm saying that correctly. Hi, Linda, is it necessary to have a T-SOL certificate to teach T-SOL? If yes, then how to get this T-SOL certificate? Well, I think, yeah, if you wanna teach something you should probably know how it works before you teach it. So I would definitely recommend if you wanna teach T-SOL, you should get a T-SOL certificate or do you mean if you wanna teach English as a foreign language? Either way, my answer would be yes. Yeah, how can you get this T-SOL certificate? Today, during our live session, during this live session, we offer a 30% off discount opportunity. So you can just simply apply through this link. I'm just gonna share it again. And you can get a 30% off discount. And why don't I show you how you pick a course? Maybe that will also be useful. So if you click on that, how can I share? I'm sharing so many different scripts already. I need to, okay, let's stop this. Give me one second. Okay, I hope it works. I hope you can see that now, yeah. Maybe I'm gonna make myself smaller so we have this bigger. So this is the discounted, when you click on this discount link that I just shared, this is what you will see. So this is just the application page. So this is kind of if you already know what course you wanna take. So you would pick online course and then what kind of online course and we have many different options. And usually for someone who's completely new to Tefl T-SOL, we would recommend either the 120 hour course with tutor or without tutor you can choose or what's even better would be the master package here. So if you choose and see, there is not much difference even. There's just $40 different, but here you get actually two courses, no three courses. So you get the 120 hour plus two specialized courses. So this one is actually the best deal. You can also take this without tutor support. Tutor support just means that you have a professional Tefl slash T-SOL tutor at your disposal. So you can ask your tutor questions. If you don't understand anything, if you want some more information, you can ask your tutor questions. If you are comfortable studying online by yourself, you're like, no, I don't need any help. I can do this, you can do without tutor support. So that's what you could choose. And so I would really recommend the master package because it has those two specialized courses in teaching English to young learners and business English. So yeah, why don't we fill this out together? So I can just show you, so you need to enter your first name. And I'm just gonna do tests. I'm gonna fill out a test application. So I'm just gonna use a fake email address as well. You can also do this if you just wanna see how it works. That's fine. See, this is optional. You don't even have to fill this out. And then we are choosing, let's just choose the tutor one. And you can also choose your free course, which is the teaching English online course. So with this package, you actually get four courses for the price of that, which is a really, really great deal. And that's why I love this master package. And this is also what I have, but I did not take it all together as a master package. I should have, but I took mine over a couple of years and it was much more, it's much more expensive to do it that way. So if you already know these are the courses you wanna take, this master package is really worth it. It's really the best deal. And then this is also optional, but if my test application has the test, and then you put apply now, and then this is what you will see on the next page. So it's like loading a little bit. And then it takes a little bit more time. Yeah, so then you can also see with our 30% off discount, you save $120 just today with our discount for this live session. So actually this course is 399, so $400 almost, but with our code or our link for today, it is only $279 for four TEFL courses. So this is really great deal. And then you can choose how to pay. But yeah, that's how it works. That's how it works. All right, let me have a look at all your other comments. So I really need online courses, but I don't know how to enjoy. Can you explain me more about it? Yeah, as you can see, it's easy. This was the signup process, and then you will work through your units. And maybe this is something I'm gonna do next week then because a lot of you wanna see how it works. I have done that in the past where I showed you live in a live session like this, how the online course platform looks like, how it works. I cannot do this right now. I haven't set it up, but this would be something I can do next week and show you again. You can also find this in our playlist. You are watching on Facebook, but we have it on YouTube, we have it on Facebook. If you just go into the live video folder or playlist and you scroll down a little bit, you'll see it's called a live look into our Teflocourse platform or something like that and you can see how it works. But it's super easy. There's also videos. There's pictures. It's not boring. Yeah, you can definitely enjoy it. There's a lot of resources, extra material that's very interesting to read, to study, to watch. So it's not bland. It's fun, basically. Hi, Amitava. Thanks so much for tuning in from India. Awesome, thank you so much. Good to see you again. Yeah, I'm not serious. Thank you for the information, no problem. And also Ibrar is watching. Hi, I'm good, how are you? And then we have a question again from Mathieu. Thank you so much for sending in all your questions. It's really great. So how long does it take to get Tefl certified? That's a good question. And I actually have slides prepared for that. So let me show you what we call the Tefl timeline. It's somewhere towards the end. Let me see. At least I think it's there. Yeah, this one. All right. So this is what I call the Tefl timeline, the teaching English timeline. So first, that's actually what we just did. You choose a Tefl course or your liking. That's what we just did here on this application page. If you remember, we just filled out the application. Then we pay for our course and then we are done. We can log in, we can start, we can get going. So that is step one here. Choose a Tefl course. And then number two, you work through the units. Now with the master package, you actually have a long time to work through that. The 120 hour course, which you take first, you have up to six months to work through that. And then every additional 50 hour specialization course, you also have six months to complete that. So you actually have a very long time to complete all the courses. And that is why that's because we have many different course takers. You know, some of them who don't have a lot of time, some of them who are working full-time, always depends. Some of them who have more time, they can work through more units. Some who don't have so much time, they only have a couple of hours a week maybe to work through the units. So we wanna make it as flexible as possible for anyone. And that's why you have so much time to complete the course. So how long the step number two takes is entirely up to you. It depends on how much time you have, what kind of learner you are, et cetera. But you have up to six months or more, depending on the course to complete it. And once you have completed it, we are moving on to step number three here. You receive your hard copy certificate in mail. As soon as you complete the course, you actually receive a PDF version of your certificate as soon as you complete. So you can already start applying for jobs or add this PDF picture file to your online teaching profile. So this is as soon as you complete. And then we also print it out in a really, really nice certificate, hard copy embossed. It's very, very nice. We send it out to you, to anywhere in the world as well. So while you're waiting for the certificate, like I said, you can use your PDF copy. You can already start applying for jobs. That is number four, apply for jobs. You can apply for as many jobs as you like. You can also work with recruiters. As an ITTT course graduate, you have access to lifetime job support. That means we will help you find a position, a teaching position anywhere you like. And we also have access to, or we work with a lot of different TEFL recruiters and schools around the world, partners in the TEFL TESOL field who hire our certified teachers. And then number five, you start teaching. You get hired, you start teaching. And this process can take anywhere from four to six months and more. If you wanna start teaching English abroad, depending on the country, it can take a little bit longer obviously. So typically, if you wanna go somewhere abroad, if it's a country that hires you from outside, so via like a Skype interview, it typically takes, we would recommend starting a year earlier, a year before your desired departure date, so to speak, or even longer, because programs like the Jet program in Japan for teaching or the Epic program in Korea, they hire, their hiring process starts almost, a year before you actually start your position. So you need to be early. That's why now is a perfect time to take your TEFL course while the world is on hold a little bit and slowly opening up again. So now is actually a great time to then be ready for when you can go abroad. And somebody was saying it is difficult right now to get teaching experience, it is, but you can, for example, start teaching English online and get teaching experience that way for then when the world is opening up again, you are ready, and you have experience, you are certified, and you can go and find a position abroad. For example, I hope that makes sense. If you have a question about this timeline thing, let me know if it wasn't clear, I'll be happy to explain again. Just let me know. Oh, that was a lot of talking. Need some water now. And breathe. I'll get back to Adam's question next. So let me see what Adam is saying. Okay. Adam is saying, if I became TEFL certified and had no prior teaching experience, could appearing teaching English and teaching on italki count as valid experience when looking for a job abroad? Certainly, definitely. I mean, teaching English online is certainly also work experience. Why wouldn't it be? And especially in nowadays world where everyone is spending so much time learning online, teaching online is definitely valid and not seen as anything less than in class teaching. So definitely, yeah. Any kind of teaching experience, even if you're just tutoring someone in your neighborhood, that is also teaching experience, for sure. And appearing is also great. That is experience abroad. It shows that you are adaptable, that you're open to foreign cultures and countries. And that's also great. So definitely, yeah. We have Terek. Thank you for your question. Hello, Linda. How to start teaching English online? How to get help from you? Yeah, I'll be happy to help. Yeah, like I said, teaching English online, I think has never been easier than at the moment. I'm thinking if I have a slide about teaching online, I might have, let me just have a look. So be a little bit easier. Yeah, maybe not in here, actually. But I can still tell you about it. Also, from my own experience, I started teaching online this year as well. Yeah, okay. So I'm gonna just make myself bigger again. Oh, this way. Yeah, so teaching online, there's so many different platforms actually available. And ITTT just recently partnered with Precley, who is one of the biggest online teaching platforms. And they are also eager to hire ITTT course graduates. There's also many other teaching platforms. And let me just get, again, I have the spreadsheet, and I think some of you probably know this already, because I share it all the time, but it's a Google spreadsheet that I share with you that you can save with 20, it's called 20 non-Chinese online teaching platforms to work for, non-Chinese because with Chinese online teaching platforms, as of this year, summer this year, there have been new regulations, and it's a little bit more difficult now to teach for Chinese companies because of new regulations put into place from the Chinese government. I did a live session about this topic not too long ago, so if you wanna know more, if you're curious, you can go into Playlist and check it out. But let me share the spreadsheet with you now and you can make a copy and you can apply to those platforms and there's also the, I'll show you, I'll just show you, it's easier that way. So you can click on, yeah, you can click on this link and then you'll see the spreadsheet and I'm also gonna share it just now and tell you a little bit more about it. But yeah, this is it, looks like this. And as you can see, there are 20 online teaching platforms listed here and also information like the hourly rate and requirements, some are, for some, you need to be technical qualified, for some, you need to have experience, for some you don't, native speaker minimum hours, what kind of students, whether or not they provide less material or you need to make your own, whether or not a degree, a degree is required or not and any other like additional information you can find this here. And if there's a platform or more to your liking, you can just click on here, apply and it leads you straight to the application page and you can apply to become a teacher on that platform. So yeah, and what you can do now, you can, if you wanna go on file and click on make a copy and it will make a copy for you and you can save it, you can edit it, you'll have access to that. So you can go ahead and do that. Again, you would just click on file and make, oh, file and make a copy here and then you can save your own version of this sheet and you can use it for reference. All right, meanwhile, while you're doing that, while you're saving the sheet, you're looking at the sheet, if you have any questions about the sheet, let me know or anything else. We have a question from Ekane. Thank you so much. She says, hello, Linda, greetings. I am teaching in Turkey. Can I have a teaching job in Dubai? Thanks. Yeah, so Dubai is the Middle East in general is one of the more difficult regions to get into. So you definitely need to have teaching experience. You definitely need to have a degree. You need to be TEFL certified. And then if you also have, yeah, teaching experience, definitely useful. So I would say it depends on your professional background, your skill set, your qualifications, but you can definitely, like I said earlier, just apply. The worst thing that can happen is that they don't get back to you. That's the worst thing that can happen. I would definitely give it a go. But how great is Turkey? You're teaching in Turkey? That's amazing. Whereabouts in Turkey are you teaching? And how long have you been there for? And how do you like it? Let us know. I'm curious about it. All right, I'm closing the sheet now, but I am actually going to wanna check in and see if we have any more countries here. So back to our mentee meter in our different countries. So if any one of you just tuned in, we are collecting countries where we're watching from. So if you also wanna participate, you can simply go to this link that I'm sharing right now. Looks like this, you click on this link and you just type in the country where you're watching from and we'll be able to see our mind map grow here. So that maybe towards the end, by the end of this live stream, we'll see how many countries, how many places we have here. All right, Ikeane said, I have a degree, testful certificate and been teaching for seven years. So then I would say, yeah, that sounds pretty good. Obviously every, you know, school has their own requirements and also Dubai is probably very competitive. So, but with seven years of teaching experience, I would say that's very good. So go for it, give it a try, give it a go. Definitely, nice. No new countries yet, we're still waiting for that, but anybody else before I'm leaving, we are at the 45 minute mark. Usually these live sessions go between 45 minutes and an hour. So we are towards the end now of our live session. So if you still have a question that we didn't talk about today, do let me know. I'll be more than happy to answer it for you. Also, as I always say, if you don't feel comfortable, you know, asking a question here live in front of everybody, you can also just go to Instagram here and send me a direct message at Linda Gozist and I'll be going, no, I'll be getting back to you through that, no problem. No problem. Just checking if I mentioned everything so far, but yeah, sometimes you need to check in, you know. It's just me doing the live thing here. I have two laptops here, my phone in front of me. Sometimes it's a bit overwhelming. I don't have an assistant or anything. I wish I had one, but yeah, this is fun. All right, Adam has a question. If you want a teaching job in Dubai, do you know if a bachelor's degree in languages, Spanish and German would be accepted or must it be an English degree? Yeah, I would say it's probably preferred it's probably preferred if the degree is in English. However, since your bachelor's degree is in two languages, Spanish and German, I would probably think that that's also not too bad. It depends really from school to school. It's hard to say. So I would just give it a go and apply and see what happens. Ooh, we have someone more from Turkey. Turkey just got bigger. Awesome, thank you so much for voting. Ilkar, thank you from Istanbul. Do you have any information about taxes on online teaching? You know, I would think it depends on the teaching platform where that platform is registered and where you are, where you live, where you pay taxes normally. Usually the online teaching platform, any online teaching platform will be able to assist you with that because they pay you. So you can usually fill in tax information there in their profile. All right. Okay, yeah, we have a question here from Azar. Why do some adjectives come after the noun, like mission impossible? That's a good question. I would say with mission impossible, it's just kind of like military language and you would have to be, it's kind of like, let me maybe say, spell it, mission, impossible. You know, like if you were making a list of some sort and you write mission and then impossible, that's the result. So that's why it's kind of after normally adjectives, they come before the noun, right, in English, like the impossible mission, but also because this is a movie title, it's kind of different. I don't know if that was a good explanation. Good question, yeah. I don't really know the answer to that. I need to look that up. Great. Yeah, another one, hotel Transylvania because that's the hotel name. So the hotel is called Transylvania. It's hotel Transylvania, system international. What is, is that also, because it's a name, is that a company name? I'm not sure. It gains that the explanation is correct. Thank you. I was just making a guess, an educated guess. Yeah, because it's a name. So for hotel Transylvania, because it's a name for sure. Because Transylvania is a place it's also not an adjective. Yeah. Okay. I hope that helps. We figured it out with E.K. himself, awesome. All right, so let me know if there are any, let me see if I have anything else in my slides I wanna mention. Okay, let me show you this. So yeah, we often get the question right, which Tefl course is right for me? Oh, I'm sorry, Ikane. Is it Ikane? I'm sorry. I'm sorry I was saying your name wrong. All right, so the question was, which Tefl course is right for me? How do you know there's so many different Tefl course options? Which one should I apply to? Which one's right for me? So let's have a look at that. And ITTT, and I think I need to make this bigger. It's kind of small. We offer between 50 and 550 hours of Tefl training. Now the international minimum is here at least 100 hours or more. That's the international standard minimum that you would typically need if you wanna teach English abroad or also online. At ITTT, we offer a wide variety of courses to suit all needs. So we also have special Tefl and T-cell specialization courses that you can add to your portfolio. And I'm just gonna show you in a minute what that means. We also have all of our courses are internationally accredited and accepted worldwide. Because that's very important, right? But your course that you take a course, it's also accredited, it's accepted, and our courses are. So the most popular option or the international minimum usually is the 120 hour Tefl certificate. This one is 100% completed online. I know that some of you have already completed this course, it is 20 units long and the units are pretty much half-half, so 10 units on teaching, methodology, classroom management, lesson planning type things and half about English grammar. You can study at your own pace. Like I also said earlier, you have up to six months to complete this course and after you complete the course, you'll receive an embossed hard copy certificate straight to your door, but you also receive a PDF version of your certificate, right when you finish and complete the course, you can already start applying or adding it to your online profile. We also have different notarization services available, for example, some students require that for certain countries or jobs, but it's kind of rare, but we do also offer that if it is needed. Yeah, this is the price, so it starts at $2.49 and $3.39 with tutor support and if you just tuned in and you didn't know, today we have a special 30% off your TEFL course, so what you can do is you can scan this QR code in the upper right-hand corner there or I'm just gonna share it again. We have an application link that you can also use and that gets you a 30% discount off of any TEFL or TSOL course today and we only share those during our live sessions, so very special discount. And then let me talk a little bit about the specializations. We just mentioned that a little bit earlier, but we do have three specializations, so business English, teaching English online and young learners. Yeah, what is my name on Instagram? I can see a question here. It is at Linnagos East. Linnagos East, like this. I guess at Linnagos East, if you type that into Instagram, you can find me. I'd really appreciate a follow and if you wanna say hi and send me a DM, that's totally fine as well. Good, then we also have bundles and that's the master package that I mentioned earlier. So it has 120 hour TEFL course and 250 hour specializations, plus if you choose the tutored version of this course, you also get the teaching English online. So with the master package, you get all of these three specializations plus the 120 hour TEFL certificate. So that's why this master package is my favorite, my personal favorite, because it's just really gonna help you and it's the most useful. If you then wanna do more, for example, if you wanna teach more of a head teacher kind of role, a more leading role in the classroom, you can then also add the diploma here, the diploma course, this one, and this one also includes the diploma plus, I can't read this now, the 30 hour teaching practice. So this is the highest level that we offer, 550 hour. Yeah, and then these are all our online courses. I also wanna mention that we do have in-class courses. Of course, at the moment, some of them are not running or they can't run in person, but this is also something that we do and this map shows you all the locations that we have around the world. So you can take a four week in-class type of course as well if you prefer that or we also have a combined course where you first complete the online part and then you also do some training in class and that is the combined course option. You can see all of these mentioned on our website, no problem, you can check it out. And yeah, you can take advantage of the 30% off. So, oh yeah. So let me go back to this slide and then I think we are going to turn off soon if there are no more questions, but take your time if you have more questions. You can also leave them under here in our video sections. We always get back to them even if it's a replay later. So don't worry about that and I'm also going to be back next week again. So don't you worry, I'll come back. All right, Amitabha says, how are you faring in Augsburg, Germany? By the way, I have a degree as well as a TEFL certificate, 120 hour in-class, intensive four weeks. I remember you did that in Nepal, right? That's awesome. And a TESOL diploma, 250 hours online course. Do I need to do a teaching online course in order to teach online? Great question. You don't need to take this teaching online course in order to teach online. You can definitely find positions also without it, but this course will just help you personally to learn the differences between teaching in-person classes and teaching online. It also talks about different online systems and how to basically take all the things that you learned during your other TEFL courses and what you would normally do in your classroom and how to adjust that for the virtual classroom, for the online world, because it's very different. There are a lot of things that you normally do in your classroom face-to-face that you can't do online. And this course kind of goes into depth of that and teaches you how you can adjust these things and make effective, teach effective online classes, basically. I hope that makes sense. Hmm. Okay. Ignane says, I hope I said it right again. I have 120 hours. I want to take a master in class. Can we talk about that? So do you want to take the four-week in-class TEFL course? Do you want to get a master's degree? For these kinds of things, it's better if you email our team at, let me get this, the correct email address. So I don't want to say the wrong ones. Let me just double-check which one that is. And they will help you figure out exactly which program is the best for you because it just really depends and they know more about that stuff than I do at the moment. This is it. I'm going to share that with you. And this goes for anyone. Anyone and everyone. You can, if you have any further questions, you can email, send an email to courses at tson-tefl.com and we will get back to you through that. Ilkis says, I am a teacher trainer. Do I have a chance of working for ITTT? Yeah. Also send us an email at courses at same email address and we will get back to you about that. Okay, Amitala is asking, currently I have a Dell desktop as well as a stable unlimited cable connection. In addition to a quick webcam, what else do I need to have as an accessory in order to teach online? That's pretty much all you need if for example, you are teaching children. Some props would be cool like ABC cards or any kind of flash cards or some kind of mascot hand puppets or something like that. Also what I use, and we also did a live session about that. I did 10 free tools for teaching English online. You can find that in the playlist but it's basically teaching platforms. So if you teach independently or you don't work for a platform, you can check that out. I use MyRow. It's called MyRow or MeRow. Not sure, MyRow, I think it's MyRow.com. That's what I use. It's kind of a virtual whiteboard and that's how I plan my lessons. And then I screen share with my students and teach that way. You can add pictures and texts and we do exercises in there. So that as a tip. All right, all right. Mazar is having problems finding my Instagram. I am on Instagram, Linda goes East. Let me just, maybe I can show you if you're spelling it incorrectly, I'm not sure. Let me show you what it looks like. And then excuse me, and then I'm going to, yeah, answer the last question. So this is it. Can you see that? Linda goes East. Can you find it now? I hope you can. Give me a follow. That'd be great. Amitava says, do I need to have a UPS in order to teach online? What is UPS? I just know the postal service but there can't be it. Not sure. If anybody knows, let me know. Or Amitava, maybe you can help me out what that means. Then I'm gonna take the last question and then I'm going to be out of here and you will see me again next week from the same time, same place, hopefully. Just waiting first. And there's always like a delay between me talking and then you guys hearing it and then you need to type it. So, okay. UPS is uninterrupted power supply. Normally we do not have any power cuts or outages here. Well, I don't really have that, I don't think. So it's not a requirement. Don't worry, not a requirement. What time? What time is it now? It's 4.30 p.m. and it's getting dark as you can see. And I'm getting ready to close our live session for today. So, I'm just gonna show you. I think there's a slide. Yeah, how to find this one, I-T-T-T online. Check us out, follow us. Give us a like, give us a follow. Don't forget the 30% off opportunity. You can find the link in the comment section as well or you scan this QR code up here. And thank you so much for tuning in today. It was a lot of fun, a lot of great questions. I hope that you learned something new today. You found it helpful. Let me know if you did. And I would love to see you again next week when I'm back with probably showing you how our I-T-T-T course platform works. Since we got a lot of requests and questions about that today, I thought why not do that? So I'm probably gonna do that. And I hope to see you all again next week and thank you so much for tuning in. And then I'm gonna get ready to turn it off. I need to turn up all the banners, everything. I'm gonna turn this off. And then yeah, thank you so much. All right, cool, you were able to find me. Awesome, thank you, I appreciate that. Amitabha, thank you so much as well. Thank you, have a good evening as well. Thank you so much for tuning in week after week. Some of you are coming here all the time, it's great. Thank you so much, I really appreciate it. And I hope to see you all again next week. Take care, stay safe. And yeah, until next time. Have a lovely day, evening, wherever you are. Thank you, bye.