 Hey everyone, welcome! Linda here from ITTT, back with another live session this week. As you know, we always have these live sessions every week, usually on the same day, same time. And today we, because it's the first Friday of a new month, we are doing a Q&A, what I like to call a TEFL TESOL Q&A, a casual TEFL TESOL Teaching English Abroad kind of chat where you have the opportunity to ask me your questions, what's on your mind, your most burning questions, what you're most curious about, about teaching English abroad, about getting TEFL certified, about ITTT, about anything to that extent basically. And that's why I call it Teaching English Abroad online and everything in between. So because it covers a lot of stuff, right? So this is what we're going to do today. Thank you so much for being here. And as always, please let me know where are you watching from today? Where are you right now? I'm in South Korea. It is 1030 a.m. Friday morning. I'm super excited. It is Friday. We're getting ready for the weekend. Do you have any plans for the weekend? Let me know. I'm going to a wedding this weekend. And I'm also going to meet some friends this weekend that I haven't seen in a very long time. So I'm very excited for this weekend. But before we head into the weekend, we are having a chat today. So let me know where you are watching from, where you are right now, what time it is there, and what your plans are for the weekend. I'm always very curious. Also, if you can't hear me for some reason or there's some issues, also let me know in the comments, please, so we can fix that as fast as possible. And please don't forget to like and subscribe. You know, you're already here. You have nothing to lose. And like I said, we go live every week. So you don't want to miss any of our upcoming sessions, especially next week. And I'm going to talk a little bit more about that in just a second. But next week is a very, very special live session. We do have a guest. And I think you should all really tune in because it's going to be very, very exciting. So yeah. Welcome. We have LaTurk here. Hi, LaTurk watching from the Philippines. Oh, Giuliano. Hi. How are you doing in Brazil? It's nice to watch you again. Same. Thanks for being here again. And then we have Hindi with Manish. Cool. Manish from India. How are you doing? It is 7am. Wow. Very early. Thank you so much for joining Manish. That's awesome. Great. Oh, I need to check out your channel. So I assume you're teaching Hindi. That's cool on your channel. I should check that out. I love learning languages. I'm going to do a quick intro about myself in just a minute, but I'm all about learning foreign languages. So I'm going to check out your channel. And maybe I can learn some Hindi from you. That'd be great. Then we have Yusef here from Morocco. City of Benimelal. Oh, cool. Nice. I need to Google where that is first time I hear it. Nice. Very cool. Morocco. Thank you so much for joining. Awesome. That's good stuff right there. Great. What else do I need to mention? Oh, of course. We do have 30% off, guys. That's what I want to mention. Oh, wait. This is me. And then let's see. This one I wanted to show you guys. So we have 30% off today, a 30% discount off of all of our TEFL courses. So if you're not yet TEFL certified, if you're thinking about getting certified, maybe this is a great incentive to do so. So this is the link. So you can either hear, as you can see the QR code, you can scan this with your phone if you can. But if you can't, if you're watching this on your phone or just you can't scan it, no problem. We also have a link, which looks like this. It ends with Facebook Live minus Linda. So if you use this link, you get 30% off any TEFL or TESOL course from ITTT. So if you're interested in starting a career in teaching English abroad, this is a really, really good chance to save a lot of money to do so. So just want to mention that right off the bat, so that we're all on the same page here. And then we also have Jenna. Hi Jenna, watching from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Nice. Awesome. Welcome. Then we have Roshanadi from Egypt. Cool. And then we have Saleh al-Hajri, al-Hajri, al-Hajri probably. I'm sorry if I butcher any of you guys' names. I'm trying very hard. From Oman. It's 5.30 AM. Oh my gosh. What are you doing up already? That's amazing. Thank you so much for being here. I appreciate it. That's great. Wow. We have a very international crowd. We have people from India, from Morocco, Vietnam, Egypt, Oman, Brazil, Philippines. I'm in South Korea. Wow. We're from everywhere today. That's awesome. Thank you guys. I'm excited. Very, very excited to be here. Cool. So yeah, don't forget 30% off. I'm going to mention this of course one more time later because we get some people joining later, more people joining later, or people leaving and coming back in. So I'm going to mention that again. Don't you worry. If it doesn't work for some reason, if this link doesn't work, let me know. I'll help you out. Of course. And then, yeah, let's have a chat today. Let's have a chat about Tefal Tea Sol. I think we also have a lot of new people here today, a lot of new names. That's awesome. So, yeah, as I always say, there are no stupid questions. Okay. So feel free to ask whatever you want about Tefal Tea Sol, ITTT, teaching English abroad, or online, or whatever you want to know. And I'm going to try my best. Of course, I don't know everything, right? I'm not a robot or Wikipedia. So I might not know everything, but I'm going to try my hardest based on my own experience of teaching abroad and obviously working with ITTT for a very long time. So that's where my knowledge comes from. Okay. All right. Good. And let's go back to this and just a quick introduction about who I am because, like I said, I think we have a lot of new people here today. And I just want to show you guys so you know who I am. So my name is Linda. I'm a travel writer and content creator among many things. I do many different things, but those are like the main things that I do. And so my name, my online name I handle is Linda goes East and East because I've been, since I was a teenager, very, very interested in Asia. And so that's why Linda goes East. And I lived in China for a little bit. And now I'm based in South Korea. Now I've already been based here for seven and a half years. So already a long time. But before that, I lived in China and obviously I travel all around Asia. And now finally after COVID, all the countries are pretty much open again and travel is back on. I'm very excited about that. So if you're interested in this part of the world, especially in Korea in China, East Asia, but also all the other countries in Asia, feel free to head to Linda goes East.com and you might find something that you like and enjoy some travel guides and tips and good information for traveling there and also teaching English in different countries. So go ahead and check that out. And also, if you're on Instagram, I love creating content. Photography is a huge passion of mine. I also recently got a drone, or I guess this year I got a drone, sorry, it was in spring. But so if you enjoy that kind of content, feel free to head to at Linda goes East on Instagram. And you can also follow me there. And also, if you have a question that you might not want to ask here in front of everybody live, you can always DM me. And I'll answer the question there privately. That's also possible. You can also book a time slot with me one on one on my website. If that's something you're interested in to discuss certain things, how, you know, more like tailored to you, because everybody's situation is different. So if we, if you want some time just one on one consultation, we can certainly also do that. And there's a place on my website where you can book that or you just reach out to me on Instagram. I'm originally from Germany at the US. So my mom is German, my dad is American. And yeah, I'm based in South Korea and I've been here for seven and a half years and it's been a wild ride and I still love it. And I teach here. I teach, I used to teach full time my first year in Korea. And then I transitioned over to this is the next side. So this is definitely some marketing for it. That's what I started doing. But then I continued teaching on the side different projects. I taught business professionals at companies here in Korea, but also children. I've done winter camps, summer camps, these kinds of things. And also online teaching, I started teaching online during the pandemic, which was really great. And I'm still doing it now. So I do a lot of different things. And yeah, ITTT. So that's also kind of what I do work for ITTT, which stands for International Teflon T-Soul Training. And what we do is we help people sort of achieve their goal of moving abroad or teaching English professionally. So you don't even need to move abroad to do that nowadays. It's super easy, especially because of the pandemic to just do that online. So we help people just become English teachers. And our website is TeflonCourse.net. You might know it. Some of you are probably already certified. Some of you might not be. So this is just yeah, how you can find us. And ITTT has been around since 1998. So since the 90s and is a leading Teflon T-Soul course provider now worldwide. We also have in-class courses, so in-class centers around the world, but also a wide variety of different online courses. And if you're interested in that, I have some slides I can show you. I always like to use some slides in these live sessions so you can just visually see it better. I think that makes just more sense. Yeah, so this is it. And a little bit about me. And now let me have a look at the comments. All right, already two questions. Great. All right, so Saleh, I hope that's how you say Saleh, is asking, I did my SELTA. Should I do a Teflon T-Soul now? Yeah. So SELTA is a type of Teflon T-Soul certification. They are sort of their own brand. And when it comes to Teflon courses, let me just do this. Or what should I do? Maybe this one. And when it comes to Teflon T-Soul courses, it really depends on kind of every company, every provider, what their course content is. So it might vary. So I always say the more qualifications you have, the better it is and the more helpful it will be for your career. So if you have a SELTA already, that is really, really great. You can certainly move on now to do a Teflon, but maybe you should actually do the T-Soul Diploma course. So maybe that was your second question. I would recommend that one. And I can share the link with you so you can see this program. This is basically the most advanced, the most advanced that we have, the T-Soul Diploma. And that is an advanced level training course. And this is really for people who are already certified and who want to step up in terms of ESL knowledge and you have access to higher, better jobs and things like that. So let me share that with you and you can check that out. I think that would be a great next step for you after your SELTA. And I added the 30% off bit at the end to this link. So when you click on that you and you apply, you already have that 30% off in there. So you don't have to worry about it. So that is this one. So maybe I can show you all or you know what, I'll do that in just a minute. I just want to mention one more thing. And I kind of already mentioned this a little bit. So this is actually next week. I want to say this right away. I mentioned it a little bit that we do have these live sessions every week. And next week is very special. We actually have a guest speaker which is Dan Warden from Teach English Global Recruiting. So he's a recruiter specialized in China. So we're going to have a live session about teaching English in China in 2023 next year, what you need to know. Okay. Everything you need to know next week, it's going to happen. Same here on Facebook and on YouTube. So go ahead and check that out. Especially if you're interested in teaching in China, this is going to be a really, really useful live session for you. And you can ask Dan all of your questions and we're going to answer a lot of things, especially a lot of things have changed when it comes to teaching English in China because of the pandemic. They have a lot of new things implemented and I think it's going to be really, really interesting because China used to be the biggest teaching market in the world and it still is. And I think because of the pandemic and sort of a little bit of bad rep, it's gotten a lot of people are kind of looking for alternatives, but Dan will be here to kind of explain a little bit and show you guys a little bit how, what the teaching situation is in China right now, how you can get hired, what you need to know, and basically just the situation. So it's going to be really, really good. And if you're interested in that, please join us next week. It's going to be really great and you're going to have the opportunity to ask a true expert here. So yeah, this is something that Dan is going to be able to answer. So is teaching English in China legal for non-native speakers? Dan is going to talk a lot about that about the requirements because they have really, really changed in China in recent years. So when I was teaching there, which was literally seven years ago, I think, well no more, hold on, nine years ago, eight years ago, nine years ago, and I was teaching there, the requirements, the restrictions were very different. So anybody could basically come and teach in China. Now it's very different. And non-native English speakers, especially people from non-English speaking countries, are having a harder time. So it is, is it legal? I think we need to ask Dan that for sure. So please join us next week with when Dan will be here. I think that would be really interesting. And he'll be able to really answer that and say what the situation is right now. Okay. Yeah, the Turk. Yes. Excited. Definitely excited. And I hope you'll join if you're interested in teaching English in China. Mark this on your calendar. It's going to be really, really great because we have a guest who knows what they're talking about. I mean, I know what I'm talking about, but he is an expert in teaching English in China at the moment. What it's like, what has changed, what you need to know for the next year. Okay. So great. All right, now back to the diploma and the different courses, what Saleh here was asking. And let me just move to the right slides here. And if there's anything that you see on the slides that catches your interest, please let me know and I'll talk about that. Okay. Yeah, maybe this is a good thing for Saleh here, which Teflon course is right for me because literally there are so many different course options also within ITTT, not just in general, but also at ITTT's website or our course offer. In general, we have a lot of different course options. So how do you know which course is right for you? Right? That's always a big question. So let's first look at the different, oh, I need to make this bigger. Also the cost of things. So basically you really want to stay away from these free Teflon courses, right? Be wary of any Teflon course costing close to nothing or offered completely free because with those kinds of things it's really like you get what you pay for. So cheap and free Teflon courses, they aren't going to get you the desired teaching job abroad. They're most likely not accredited internationally recognized and they also lack basic things like job assistance and even a hard copy certificate. So I always like to compare this with a budget airline, right? We all know them. They're all over super cheap tickets, but then you have to pay for everything extra. You need to pay to check your luggage. You need to pay for booking your seat. You need to pay for everything extra, right? Everything extra. You need to pay for your water in some cases. So this is kind of what this is like. These Groupon Teflon courses, right? It looks great in the beginning, but then it really adds up. And it's basically, in some cases it actually gets much more expensive than choosing just a Teflon course from like a provider like ITTT from the go, from the get go, from in the first place. So yeah. And then they don't have this accreditation. They don't have jobs assistance. They don't even have a way to contact like customer service like we do. We have course coordinators and tutors that can help you and assist you. So they don't have any of that. So that right of the bat, you want to stay away from that. And then yeah. So at ITTT we have Tefl training starting from 50 hours all the way to 550 hours. So obviously there's a huge difference, right? What you want to aim for if you are a new teacher and you want to move abroad or you want to teach English online or in your own country, like professionally long term, you want to aim for a certificate that is at least 100 hours long. 100 hours just has become the international standard basically. That's why our most popular course is the 120 hour Teflon course. We don't have a 100 hour course. It's a 120 hour course because this one includes all the things you need to know. It teaches you all the things you need to know to be successful in your own classroom, to lead a classroom, to be an English teacher. And so yeah. Among all of these courses, like I said, we have a wide variety to suit all needs. We also have specializations that, you know, teaching business English, teaching children, teaching grammar, phonology, those kinds of things. And those are really, really great to kind of add to your portfolio and make you stand out because there's 120 hour course because I said it is the standard course. Most people are going to have it. So you want to kind of stand out from the crowd, stand out among all the other applicants and you want to get the specialization to kind of just have something different on your resume. All of the courses are internationally accredited, of course, and accepted worldwide. And let's have a more detailed look here. So this is the one that I mentioned earlier, the 120 hour course. This is the most popular among all our courses. And this one is completed 100% online, which is really, really great. Huge flexibility. This is also the course that this is how I found out about ITTT. Basically, I was looking for technical courses. I Googled as you do and ITTT came up and I looked at the website. I looked at the reviews and everything seemed really, really great. And I took this course and I really enjoyed it. I was working full time at the time. So this course was really great for me because I could study whenever I wanted. I had a lot of flexibility. There was no certain time where I needed to be online to join a class or anything. So I could really do my own studying at any time I wanted, whether it was really early in the morning in the afternoon or late at night. Didn't matter. I just log into the dashboard and I work through the course units all independently. So there are 20 units you need to work through with this course. You can study at your own pace. You have up to six months to complete the course, which is really, really great. So it gives you so much flexibility. It doesn't take most people six months, of course. You can finish this. I finished it and I was working full time. I didn't study like too much per week, a couple of hours per week. So it took me between three and four months to complete it. But if you are in a hurry or if you have more time, you can finish it much faster maybe. And I think if you do, you can do two units a day, I believe. It won't let you do more. If you do more, because you don't want to do too much too fast, you need to retain this information. So you can only do two units a day. If you do two units a day, I think it comes down to, well, it comes down to 10 days, doesn't it? So if you wanted to, you could finish it in 10 days, but I wouldn't recommend it. You really need your time to kind of work through everything and get it into your head. But basically you could do it in 10 days, but not recommended. At least I would say take a month, you know, really focus on it if you really want to do it super fast. But generally speaking, you could do it in 10 days. And then at the end, when you're all done and you're past, you get an embossed hard copy certificate shipped straight to your door wherever you are in the world. We will send it to you. And also that's the great thing. As soon as you pass, you actually get a PDF version of your certificate. Because when you apply for a teaching job, you're not, you're applying online, right? You're not actually sending them your certificate. So you would just attach the PDF anyway to the application. So you can do that right away. As soon as you pass and you don't have to wait for your embossed certificate, the embossed certificate, you only need, for example, if your certificate is needed for visa purposes. So for example, if you want to teach English in China, or in countries where the TEFL certificate is required, you need to show that to like the immigration and the visa people, then you will need that. And I believe in Vietnam and things. And in those countries, you'll also need a notarization. So this is like an extra stamp on your certificate to just get it super verified, notarized basically. And this is also something that we do at ITTT, so we can help you with that as well. But this is only needed in certain select countries. So most of you guys are not going to need that. But if you need that, we can help you with that as well. So yeah, in this course starts at $249 and $339 U.S. dollars with tutor support. So all of our courses or most of our courses actually come with tutor support. So tutor support means you have access to a tutor, an experienced TEFL tutor, who you can ask questions, who for clarification, you can reach out to them if you don't understand something. So that's really useful for people who maybe are taking an online course for the first time, they don't really know what to expect, or people who just have a hard time kind of studying on their own. So then it's a really great idea to have this tutor. But if you're used to online studying and you're like, no, I'm good, you can certainly take it without. So this is that course. And then we also have, oh, this one. Okay, let's talk about this too. So I kind of already talked about this. So how long does it take to complete the course? So like I said, you have up to six months. If you do the diploma course, because this is an advanced level course, you actually have up to 12 months to complete the course. So this is usually how it works. And then we also have, of course, in class courses, and they are four weeks long. So you actually travel to a in class center of your choice in a city or country of your choice or in your own country, if you don't want to go abroad, and you stay there for four weeks, and you study full time. This is usually eight hours a day in addition to some homework and practice teaching. And then yeah, you can choose a training center of your choice around the world. You can check on our website. We have a lot of different locations in Asia, in America, in South America, in Europe, Africa, Middle East, wherever you want to go, we have a center there pretty much. So yeah, and if there's no center, no center near you, or you don't want to travel anywhere. And obviously the budget is also very different, right? In class courses are a lot more expensive than the online courses. So depending on your budget and what you want to do, you can pick an online course or an in class course, basically. But the certificate you receive is actually the same. That's also what I want to say. So, but of course, with the in class course, you have this additional teaching practice, right? Because you will be going to an actual English teach in English language school. So you will actually teach real students there. So this is the benefit of the in class course that you actually get to teach real English students with the online course. You don't have that part. But the certificate at the end is the same. And also the online certificate, it doesn't say that the TEFL course was done online. That's another thing. So I think that's what a lot of people are also worried about. Oh, does it say online on the certificate? It doesn't, it doesn't. Nope. Okay. Yeah, then these are the specializations. I already mentioned these, you can add these on. Or sometimes we have special offers where if you buy a course with tutor support, for example, you get a free specialization course on top of that. So there are a lot of options like that on our website, you can check it out. Yeah. And then these are the bundles. I actually wanted to mention those, because that's very interesting. So if you purchase a bundle, it's basically a couple of courses in one. And it's cheaper to buy it this way. And actually, my favorite course bundle is the 220 hour master package. That's what I have done. But when I did the course, they didn't have the bundles yet. So I actually had to do every course individually, which is a lot more expensive. So now they came out or ICTTV came out with the packages. So it's a lot more affordable this way. So I like the 220 hour master package because you get the standard 120 hour course. And then you also get two specializations, which is teaching business English and teaching English to young learners, children, because those two are really the biggest English teaching niche fields. And if you have those, you're really good to go. You can teach in any environment because business people or children are basically the two groups that you will encounter in most teaching scenarios. So if you're, if you take this course package, you're really good to go and you don't have anything to fear. But of course, we also have these other ones. So this is great because as you can see with the 470 hour one here, the final part, and here also this part is the TESOL diploma, right? The diploma course, which is the highest level that we offer. And so this is great for people who want to do this long term and who want to go to a really good school, high level school, they want to earn a higher salary, they want to be head teachers, leading roles in their schools, or maybe you want to start your own school, then these are great course packages to do if this is something you are interested in. Awesome. We have D.R. Rakhmi. D.R. Rakhmi. I hope I'm saying that correct. Hi, I'm from South Kalimantan Province, Indonesia. Nice. Good morning. Happiness and healthiness. Happy Friday. Thank you to you as well. That's so sweet. Sending you a lot of happiness and healthiness. Thank you. Great. All right. Yeah. Then let me know. I don't want to talk too much about or just rambling. This is not a lecture, so this is for you guys. So yeah, I just want to put this slide back on and I'm going to make myself bigger. So ask me your questions. You listened now to a lot of the things I said. Now is your time. Please ask me your questions, anything you're curious about. And then if a slide that I have here fits with your question, I'm going to show it. But yeah, I just really want to have this as a conversation between you guys and me. So yeah, I'm open to your questions now. Please send them my way. Even while I'm talking with these slides, feel free to just send questions. That's all cool. Amitava. Hi. I'm doing very well. How are you doing? Thank you for being here. And maybe I also have a question for you. Let me know, guys. I'm going to ask you a question while you think about your questions for me. Are you already TEFL or TESOL certified? Yes or no? Just leave a yes or a no in the comments right now. And then we'll talk about it. Very curious. Let me know. Are you already certified? TEFL or TESOL? Yes or no? Let me know. Yes or no? And of course, ask me your questions as well. But are you already certified? Perhaps? I'm quiet because there's always this delay between, that's what I've heard. There's a delay between me talking and then you guys seeing it because of Facebook regulations. They want to make sure there's no weird content coming up. Okay, great question. Sorry, I cannot read your name. I can't read Arabic. I'm so sorry. So the question is I have a bachelor's degree in English but looking for more sophisticated experiences. Awesome. Yeah, I mean if you have a bachelor's degree in English, great English language, probably not English teaching. So you might definitely want to add on a TEFL certificate if you want to go down that route of teaching. That'd be really great. So a TEFL course basically teaches you how to teach English, right? You might speak fluent English. Your English grammar is great. But a TEFL course really also focuses on teaching techniques and how to basically bring that across to your students. We have classroom management units. Lesson planning is a very big thing, how to structure a lesson. And we use a very good system. It's called ESA, which means Engaged Study Activate. And if you follow this kind of pattern, you can plan a great lesson, a very successful lesson. So this is all included in a TEFL course. So in your case, yeah, I would either recommend again the 120 hour course, which is the standard course. Or if you're thinking about doing this more long term and you maybe also want to teach children and you want to teach business people too, the 220 hour master package that I just talked about for a while is great, which includes the standard 120 hour course and then two of these specializations for teaching business English and for teaching English to young learners. So if you take that one, you're really good to go. And especially because you have a degree in English, I think your chances will be really good because in most places, people, when a degree is required, the major is not important. But your major isn't English. So that's already a big plus. And then adding on a TEFL certificate, that will really be great for you, I think. All right. I mean, I was just, yes, a double certified in both TEFL, 120 hour in class intensive and TSOL 250 hour online diploma as well. Great. Amitabha, that is awesome. I love it. That's great. Awesome. I think that's a good idea. All right. Hello, Maria from Uzbekistan. My name is Maria and I'm going to take your 170 hour course, but a bit confused. Should I choose with tutor support or not? Okay, great. Let me see if I have a slide about the 170 hour course. I might actually not have one. Let's see. I have a lot of slides. Let's see. We talked about the courses. We talked about all this. 120. I feel like there should be one for one. No. I should have one for, let's see. If not, I'll just, what can you do? No. Okay. Well, I guess maybe I don't have one. Okay. 120 hour course for those of you who don't know, this is the TEFL certificate with online teaching online specialization. So this is the 120 hour course, the standard course, plus a 50 hour teaching online specialization. So this is great for anyone who wants to either go abroad and teach or also teach online. So this online portion, the online teaching portion really focuses on how you teach online, which is so, so different. And I've learned that when I started teaching online is very different from teaching in a classroom. So I also took the specialization actually, the online teaching one, because it's so useful because you think, oh yeah, like I know how to teach, but teaching online is very different. Like the environment is very different. You need to use a lot of different techniques. So very helpful. So yeah, a bit confused. Should I choose tutor support or not? So this really depends on your own study preference, I would say, and how you study. If you've done an online course before and you're confident and you're more of a, like, like solo, no, what do you call that? Like a single study, solo study person? If you study by on your own, you're comfortable with that. Or if you prefer someone who pushes you a little bit and somebody who is there and kind of guides you a little bit, you can ask a tutor questions. If there's something you don't understand, you know, a lot of course takers who are non-native English speakers, they choose tutor support because just sometimes it can be, oh, maybe there's something you quite, you don't quite understand because of like English or, you know, I don't know. Then you can ask the tutor as well. So it really depends on you. I recommend tutor support in general. I think it's really good. And if you have a question, you can always ask them and they provide really, really great feedback. And especially if there's something you don't understand from a language standpoint, you can ask them or if you took an assessment and then maybe you didn't pass the assessment, sometimes it can happen. You can ask your tutor, hey, can you have a look at my assessment results? Like why, what, I don't understand why I got that wrong or something like that. So you'll be able to do that. So it really depends on you, Maria. I hope you can make a decision. And don't forget to use our 30% off, okay? If you book any course or sign up for any course, please, please, please, do not pay the full price. We have 30% off here. I'm going to share the link again, by the way. Let's share this link again. I think we have some new people here. And please ask me your questions, more of your questions. So this is the 30% off link, this one. So don't pay the full price. Use this link. Save 30%. It's a lot of money. Please, please, please. You're welcome, Maria. Awesome. Great. Okay. So we still have some time. Feel free. I always say there are no stupid questions. So please ask away whatever you want to know. I'm here. You can ask me. And again, don't, don't miss next week. I think next week will be really great. Even if you're not interested in teaching English in China, you might get interested when you watch this. I taught English in China. I studied Chinese before as I'm a bit biased, but I really like China. I love the culture. I love the history. It's such a big country. There's so much to see and do. So teaching English in China is really like the lifetime experience. It's going to blow your mind. So if you're interested in that, interested in teaching English abroad, but you're not quite sure where yet, join us next week. We have a guest speaker, Dan, from Teach English Global Recruiting. So he really knows what's going on in China, in terms of English teaching, how to get a job, where to get a job, when to get a job, all of those things. Good. We have Jessica, until when is the 30% promo? It does not expire. It does not expire. It doesn't expire. You can use this today, tomorrow, next week. Oh, good. All good. Just make sure you use it. Don't forget. Copy, paste, and maybe save it somewhere. This will work anytime, anytime. We're just only sharing this during the live sessions. That's why it's so special. You're not going to find this anywhere on our Facebook page. You're not going to find this. 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But when it is, make sure you check it out so you know when to tune in. But you can always watch the replays as well. That's a good thing. All of our live sessions and we've done so many live sessions are always in our playlist on YouTube and also on Facebook. We have a dedicated playlist of all the live sessions. So you can always browse that. Check it out. We talked about so many different topics. So today is just a casual Q&A, which is what we do every first Friday of the month. And then every other Friday is a dedicated topic, right? It's just more structured. Yeah, Jessica, I just mentioned that. So the 30% promo, you can use this anytime. It does not expire, but we just share it only this specific link during our live sessions. That's why it's so special. You're not going to find 30% off anywhere else only here. But you can use it tomorrow, today, next week. All good. It does not expire. Just make sure you save it. And then when you're ready to sign up, you use that link to save 30%. Don't pay the full price. Don't do it. Why? Why would you if you have this opportunity? You're welcome. You're welcome. All right. Good. Anybody else has more questions, please let me know. Please let me know. Thinking. I mentioned everything I believe, what I wanted to mention. But yeah, anything you're curious about, about Tefal, TESOL, teaching English abroad or online, let me know. Before I go, I want to make sure everybody had the chance to ask a question. And then again, don't miss next week's session where we talk about teaching English in China in 2023, what you need to know. We have a guest speaker, Dan, from teaching, no, teach English global recruiting, who's an expert in teaching English in China, what you need to have to teach English in China, where the best cities are to teach, what has changed, also in terms of lockdown situation, how can you now enter China, all of those things. So how much money can you make there now? All of those things will be answered in that live session. So please join us next week. It will be really, really awesome. Just check in. If I missed any comments, I don't think I have. So yeah, let me know. I'll be able to take a couple more questions, or if there are no questions, I'm cool too. But now is your chance, now is your chance to ask away your big opportunity. Again, this is the discount link. So 30% off with this link, you can find it in the comments that ends with Facebook Live minus Linda. And you, oh no, not this one, but this one too, but this one's the shorter one with apply copy, paste this link, and you'll get 30% off your Teflon TESO course. And also this is our email address courses at TESO minus Tefl.com. You can email us at any time if you have any questions outside of this live session. Again, you can also leave comments here even after this live is finished and we'll get back to you at any time. And yeah, but now I'm still here. I'm still live right now. So you can still ask me right now. So I have a couple of minutes. All right, Amitava asks, Linda, are my credentials enough in order to land me a good job with a decent salary either in Asia, Australia, or Europe? What do you suggest? I think yes, you're more than qualified. Certainly you didn't in class course, you have to TESO diploma. I forget about your university background. But I do believe did you have a master's degree? I think you or a bachelor's degree. I don't remember now. But certainly, certainly you might want to start somewhere like in Asia first, right? And get a couple of years experience. And then you can move on to Australia or Europe. That's I think a good way to go about this. So certainly, certainly. And also we have a job section on our website. And we have lifetime job support for all ITTT course graduates. So just reach out to us again with this email. And Amitava, you too, reach out to and my team at the job department, they will be able to help you find a job. But I think yeah, going with probably somewhere in Asia first, if you don't have any teaching experience yet, start in Asia and get a couple years experience. And then you can move on to a more competitive market. I think that'd be a good strategy. But you're doing, it looks like you're doing so much Amitava, because you're always here too, you're getting so much information, which is so great. And you did the courses. So I think you're really on a good way, good path. There's a good teaching career in front of you, I can feel it. So reach out to us Amitava. We will help you. Okay, yeah, I have a two years associates degree in commerce from the University of Kokkata. Okay. Yeah, okay, two years associates degree might be a little bit difficult. I'm not going to lie. Usually, but in Asia, it's going to be okay. In Asia, I think you're going to be okay in certain countries. But a lot of countries really want a four year bachelor's degree. So maybe there's something you can do to get that. And then you'll be able to go to Australia and Europe, and other countries in Asia too. Two years associates degree might be a little bit difficult, but you can still find a job with that in Asia, in Asian countries for sure. Absolutely. And with ITTT, we have the option, you have the option of getting university credits to from your courses. And there's an online, you can do the online degree. So through ITTT. So if that's something you're interested in, again, you can email us and ask about that, how you can do that. It's also a lot less expensive than other universities. Check that out. Might be a good option for you too. Good question. All right. A little bit more time left. If anybody still has a question here, let me know before we sign off. Still have a little bit of time. Thomas says, anyway, thanks a lot for your kind advice, help support and suggestions at all times. Thank you so much. Thank you. I appreciate it. Thank you for always being here. I feel like you're, you're here every live session. That's really great. Thank you so much for your support as well. Really appreciate it. That's why we're doing this, right? That's why we're doing it. Thank you. All right. Let's see if there's one more question coming in. If not, we're going to sign off. Maybe one more question who will be the lucky person to get one more question answered. And don't forget, please join us next week with Dan from Teaching English Global Recruiting, who will be here to answer questions about teaching English in China in 2023, what you need to know. I hope to see you there. Even if you're not particularly interested in China, I think it's still going to be very interesting. You're going to learn a lot of new things too about recruiting in general, TEFL recruiting. Because I think there are a lot of misconceptions out there. One of the biggest ones really is that teachers don't pay for the recruiter, right? The schools pay for the recruiter. So really using a recruiter is a great way for teachers because you do pay them, right? And I think a lot of people don't realize that. They think you need to pay them. But no, the teacher doesn't pay the recruiter. So it's really awesome. And Dan will be able to talk a little bit more about that too. So all right. Well, I guess there are no more questions coming in then today. But thank you so much for being here. We had a very international crowd from all parts of the world and some good questions came in. Oh, I'm going to ask one more question. Awesome. Okay. Would a 50 hour young learners or business English bolster my future chances of getting recruited on an ASAP basis? What do you say, Linda? Of course, the more qualifications you have, the better, right? And if you don't have the young learners or the business English one yet, I really, of course, I recommend getting that, for sure, for sure, especially because business English and young learners, so children are the two biggest markets for teaching English. And especially, unfortunately, as a non native English speaker from a non, and I know like India is an English speaking country, but there's so much. And it's really stupid because there are certain countries that are considered English speaking countries and certain countries who are actually speaking are not considered English speaking in this teaching world. And it's not fair and it sucks. But that's just how it is. So the more certifications you have, if you're not from one of those countries, really the better. And it's not fair. It sucks that it is like that. But that's how it is, unfortunately. I wish it wasn't. And it's changing. It is getting better. A lot of countries are easing their restrictions when it comes to their teacher's nationality and background, which is great. But there's still a long way to go in this, in this area. So, yeah, at the moment, of course, the more sort of certifications you have better. But I mean, if you can, I would really focus maybe on the four year degree. So like I said, we have an ITTT. If you've done a TEFL course with us, you actually can get university credits towards a degree. And this degree can be taken online. I recently looked at that because I was very interested in that too. So you don't even have to attend any university, like you don't have to go anywhere. You can do this from home as well. But I think for you, really trying to get maybe a bachelor's degree would be a better investment for your money. But if that's really not an option, then yes, young learners or business English, definitely a great, great idea. All right, then I think we're going to end it here. Thank you so much for being here, for watching today. I hope you learned something new. And I hope you're going to join us again next week, please, when we have a guest speaker here about China. And yeah, don't forget to like and subscribe. And I'm going to see you all next week, I hope, at this live session. And then I'm going to sign off and I wish you all a very, very good weekend. And I hope to see you all again next week. And if there are any unanswered questions, feel free to reach out either via Instagram, me directly at Linda goes East, or just email us courses at tso-teflul.com. That's our website teflulcourse.net. There are a couple of other ways you can contact us. What's up and whatnot. So definitely reach out. The Turk is saying thank you so much, Linda. See you next week. Thank you. Happy weekend. See you next week as well. All right, then I'm going to sign off for today. And thank you guys. See you next week with this upcoming live session with a guest speaker. Thank you guys. Bye.