 Hi guys, Linda here from ITTT, back this week with another live session, welcome, welcome. Thanks for joining me today. Thanks for tuning in. If you're watching this for the first time, welcome. If you've watched before, welcome back. Thank you so much. As always, don't forget to like and subscribe. This is a repeating, reoccurring event. Every week we do the same thing, not the same thing, we go live, but we talk about different topics. So it's not the same every week, but yeah, it's a recurring event. So every Friday or Thursday, depending on where you're watching from, this place, this time, we're here talking about something, Tefl, TESOL, teaching English abroad online related. So if you're interested in that, join us. It's completely free. There's no obligation to do anything, to book a course, to apply for a course, to do anything. Nothing like that. You can, of course, and we will provide you with lots of course information, especially today. We're going to talk specifically about one of our courses, the 120 hour course, and we're going to talk about the question if a 120 hour Tefl TESOL course is good enough or enough to get a good Tefl job. Because if you've done some Googling before, you put in Tefl course, TESOL course, you see a whole bunch of different course options, different hours. There's 50 hour, 60 hour, 100 hour, 120. There's more than 120. There's an ITTT specifically. We go over all the different course options, what they are. But today is most specifically all about the 120 hour course, and we're going to talk a lot about this course. I know that many of you watching have already taken this course. So maybe you can also give us some feedback here. I've taken the course. That was the course that I took back in 2014 before I moved to Korea to teach English. I took that specific course as well. So yeah, let's talk about it. Before we get into it, I always like to ask you guys, where are you right now? Where are you watching from today? What time is it over there? It's a little high. I'm in South Korea. It is 10.30 a.m. Friday morning. Super excited to be here. Also super excited that it's Friday and we're heading into the weekend. Do you have any weekend plans? Let me know as well. We're probably going out for a picnic maybe. We might go to a little stream, just kind of something to beat the heat. The weather is really good. So we'll probably do something outside. But anyway, we have Dia Rakhmi, I hope I'm saying that correctly, saying hello on YouTube. Hi, how are you doing? And we're live on Facebook and on YouTube at the same time. So we have Shawna here from Florida. It's 9.35 p.m. Nice. Hi, Shawna. How are you doing? Very nice. All right. Cool. Hi. Oh, hi, Shawna. Cool. So it looks like Shawna is maybe interested in teaching English in Korea. Cool. Very nice. All right. What else? Oh, let's do. Oh, yeah. OK. So this is the 30% off discount code that I just kind of touched on every live session. And this is exclusive in our live sessions. So you will not find this discount anywhere else. 30% only when you watch our live sessions, you get access to this discount. It's a big discount. So that's why I always say, if you're interested in taking one of our courses, use this code. Don't pay full price. OK. So what you can do is you can scan this QR code that you see right here in front of you. But we also have a link. Let me share the link with you. Then you can just copy, paste this link. And it'll get you 30% off one of our courses, the 120-hour course, but also any other course that you can see on our website. So this is the link. It ends with FB Live minus Linda. And yeah, you can copy this link right now. Keep it somewhere safe that when you're ready, when you picked the kind of course that you want to take, you can just apply via this link. So don't forget. You don't want to pay full price if you can save 30%. All right. And Shana says, maybe. Maybe teaching English in Korea. Yeah, I think that'd be really great for you, Shana. OK. So quick introduction about me. Let's do this. So my name is Linda. I am a travel writer, tech expert, social media, marketer, all these kinds of things. I have my own personal website at Linda Goes East. And maybe, Shana, if you're interested in teaching English in Korea, of course, everybody else as well, head to lindegoseast.com. You'll find a lot of info about South Korea on my website for teaching, for moving there, but also just for traveling there. So head over there. And maybe there's something interesting for you. Also, I'm very active on social media at Linda Goes East, on all major social media platforms, but especially I like Instagram. I like sharing my pictures and videos, reels on there about my travels and my life abroad. So if you're interested in that, also check it out and give me a follow. I would appreciate that. I'm originally from Germany slash the US, so my mom is German and my dad is American. But I'm based in South Korea and this is actually my eighth year in South Korea and before moving to Korea, I lived in China as well. So that's why I've always been very interested in Asia. That's why the handle is Linda Goes East. So I'm very interested in all Asian countries and cultures and all that stuff. I'm also a Teflon TESOL expert. That's why I'm here for you guys today with ITTT, which stands for International Teflon and TESOL Training. And you can find our website at tefloncourse.net. And ITTT is a leading Teflon TESOL course provider worldwide, lots of different course options. We're going to touch on a lot of them in just a minute. And my own personal teaching experience, I am Teflon TESOL certified with ITTT certificates and I have eight plus years of experience. Actually, that's needs to change now. It's like nine plus years in China and in South Korea. I've also started teaching English online in 2021, I think, 2021. So because of COVID, I was actually never really interested in teaching English online, but then COVID hit and I had lost a lot of in-person students because of that, because the restrictions and everything. And so I was like, let me maybe try out online teaching. And I love it. I still do it now. It's very nice. It's exciting. It gets me. It helps me meet a lot of people from places I would never even dream of or I do dream of. But it's exciting. It's exciting. So I also do that and let me have a look here at the comments. Shauna says, I'm chugging my way through the 120 hour course. I got the 550 hour of perfect. I'm going for the top. Cool. I'll check out your sites. Goods and tack. That's fine. Goods and tack. That's what I thought. Thank you. OK, Shauna. Cool. Good question. Shauna says, is China still a good, safe option? And yes, it is. So they did have a bit of a rough situation. I mean, with like everywhere in the world, right? With COVID and everything. But I think what we've seen definitely China was had it especially rough for people in China with all the restrictions that were going on for so long. But now from what I hear, they're pretty much also back to normal. And I know a lot of people who are still teaching English in China. A lot of people have left during COVID. But now the situation is kind of back to normal. So they really need a lot of teachers now. And it is still a good option. And I really loved living in China. It's a huge country. There's so much to explore. If you like Asian, you know, the history, the architecture. There are so many different places. I'm always really interested in Silk Road things. Obviously, there's so much history along that so many different places. You have deserts, you have tropical forests, you have mountains, you have beaches. So in China, you have everything. And with the high speed bullet trains, everything is also very well connected. So it's great for traveling around. Comparing that with Korea, for example, Korea is very small. It's very small. You can get pretty much anywhere within like three hours depending on where you are. Maybe if you're in Seoul and you want to go to Busan, it takes a little longer. But even with the high speed train, you can get there in things two and a half hours. So Korea is very small and not, you know, that varied in landscape. There's also a lot of different landscapes in Korea. But in China, because it's so huge, you have a lot more options. But still, it's both really good options, I would say. If you're interested in East Asian culture. Great, we have Lurado back. Hi, Lurado. Hi there, Linda. This is Lurado from Botswana back yet another week. It is 3.38 a.m. here. I've been looking forward to this. Well, I hope Lurado, you're not getting up for me, right? I don't want you to get up this early or stay up this late just for this live session, let me know. And I can maybe schedule the next one a little bit later. So it's more convenient for you. Let me know. I think 3.00 a.m., 3.30 a.m. I hope you're not getting up or staying up late because of this. Let me know because then I'll just move the live session a couple hours later. I don't mind doing that. But happy to have you, really happy to have you. All right, cool. Yeah, so today we're going to talk about, like I said, the 120 hour course. If it is enough to get a good teaching job abroad, we're going to touch on a couple of other, actually, I have an agenda here. Why don't I show you this here? So we're going to talk about what's the 120 hour course is, what's so special about it in particular, why is everybody talking about this particular course? And is it good enough to get a teaching job, a job teaching English abroad? How long does it take to complete a 120 hour TEFL course and how much does a 120 hour TEFL course cost? And also what are other course options? I also added that in. Alarata says I'm perfectly fine with the time. OK, OK, great. Well, that's good then. All right, just checking in. OK, so this is the agenda for today. Now, of course, Shauna's already taken or already taking this course right now. Maybe you can give us some real time live updates of what it's like working through the course right now. I've taken it, like I said, in 2014. So it's been a couple of years. So maybe a fresh, a fresh take on it would be appreciated. Then also at the end, we're going to have a Q&A time where you can ask me any questions about teaching English abroad, to have a TESOL. Excuse me. But also, I mean, if you have a question at any time during the live session, feel free, just leave a comment. It's fine, totally fine. And I also have some coffee here, even though it's almost gone. So grab a beverage, grab a snack, whatever you feel like. And then we're getting into it. Most live sessions take between it's really hard to say, but like 30 minutes, 45 minutes, some of them even take an hour or longer. So I think today is not going to be that long. We'll see, it depends on you guys, how many questions you have. I'm going to be finished when there are no more questions. So I want to make sure that everybody has everybody has the opportunity to ask a question. So Shauna says, I'm learning so much. I thought I knew it all, but wow, Shauna, could you let us know? Are you were you a teacher already before? Do you have teaching experience already? Or is like teaching totally new to you? But I'm guessing from your comment, you were already maybe a teacher before. I thought I knew it all. But wow, yeah. And I think especially Shauna for native speakers. This course is definitely super useful. I think a lot of native English speakers think like, oh, yeah, like I don't need this course. I'm a native English speaker. I know English. Like why would I take this course? But I think you're going to be surprised, especially with the grammar units. Right. You learn a lot about English grammar and what. What what the the the difficult things about English grammar and the English language is for people who are learning it because that's not something native English speakers know or think about. So I think that's really useful. OK, Shauna says not a teacher, but older. Yeah. OK, cool. And Shauna is driving home from work in a minute. OK, all right. Well, depending on how long you have to drive home, maybe then you have to watch the replay or you just join us again when you're home. Whatever you feel like, Shauna, thank you so much for joining. Anyway, I appreciate it. You can always come back. Watch the replay, our replay, our videos, our live sessions remain in our playlist on YouTube and also on Facebook, so you can always rewatch it if you miss it, if you don't have time. So all good. But yeah, this is today's agenda. So let's jump in and answering what is a 120 hour TEFL course? So if you really don't know anything about TEFL TESOL at all, this would be a good explanation. So it is a certification course and it is taken primarily by English speakers who seek to teach English abroad or online. And there are two formats available with this course or this length of the course. So the 120 hour course online or an intensive four week program at a training center so you can choose whatever your budget is, whatever. You know, if you if you have four weeks to go to a physical location, training center, or if you prefer doing it all online from the comfort of your own home, very flexible, you can study at your own time. So these are the two formats that we have in the course content. So instruction and practice in the primary skills, skill areas required for graduates to teach English as a foreign language. So there are 20 units in this course and they are almost split between teaching methodologies, so teaching techniques and English grammar. So all the tenses, basically, what else is in there, just the most important English grammar topics and not just reviewing them for you, but also from from the viewpoint of a learner, it will teach you which English grammar topics are difficult for English learners and how to effectively teach those English grammar components. So this is the 120 hour course. So it's two things. It is this piece of paper and I should have brought it out. I have it back in my folder back there. It is a piece of paper that certifies you, which is necessary to teach English abroad or also online in some cases, just a certification that allows you to do that. But it's also for you personally. So you learn these skills and you offer the best value teaching experience to your students or future students, if that makes any sense. So and Shauna, before you're leaving us, Shauna has a question, is remote teaching viable for us older ones? Sixty two years young next week. Oh, congratulations. Early, early happy birthday here. Yes. You know, I would say remote teaching is definitely a possibility at any age. I think I don't know if you've tuned in before, but a couple of weeks ago, we talked a lot about the the many new digital nomad visas that basically allow us to work to teach English online while living abroad in different countries and also experiencing that living abroad side of things. But we're teaching remotely. We're working on our computers, but we're living abroad at the same time. And so if you're interested in that, check out. I don't remember exactly what it's called, but it was called something with digital nomad visa, digital nomad, something like that. In our playlist, there are now 55 different digital nomad visas in in countries all around the world. So that would be another great option. And there are so many online teaching platforms as well. And I've also done live sessions specifically about teaching English online in the past as well, so I recommend you check those out as well. A complete guide to teaching English online, because like I said, I started personally teaching English online back in 2021, I think. And this basically everything that I've learned, because I didn't know much about the online teaching world either, I just knew the stuff, you know, coming through to me through it, but then I went through all of it personally. And I can tell you from a more personal perspective. So, yeah, look up the replay on YouTube and then join us next week. If you can, I would love to see you again. Shona, also feel free to always email us or send me a DM on Instagram here at Linda goes East and I can send you some resources as well. Feel free to reach out at any time. And then I hope that helps. All right, somebody's saying here, hey there. Hi, how are you doing? And Amitava is here. Hello, Linda. Good morning. How are you? I'm doing great. Thank you, Amitava. How about you? How are you doing? Great, we're talking about the 120 hour course today. And we just went over this little explanation about what this 120 hour Teflocourse is. And so, like I said, it is a certification, but it also obviously teaches you how to teach so that you can be the best teacher possible for your students. So these are some of the units and the topics that this course covers. So, like I said, kind of split half and half between teaching skills and grammar components, so you will learn things like teaching theories and methods and techniques, classroom management, so how to manage your students because we all have disruptive students from time to time. So there's some techniques, useful techniques, how to manage those so that you can still have an effective learning experience. Also, lesson planning is a big part of it. How to plan your English lessons, how to plan out a whole curriculum, all of these things. We have receptive and productive skills. So all of the four skills, reading, writing, listening, speaking, all of that and how to structure your lessons around those. We have units on pronunciation and phonology. You're going to learn the phonetic alphabet in there as well. And then also some units on evaluation and testing. That's also very important how to test your students and evaluate the progress, the different types of evaluation and tests you can do with your students, all of that good stuff. So everything you need to know to be a teacher and then the grammar components. So you learn you go in depth of all the different tenses in the English language, conditionals, reported speech, modals, phrasal verbs and passive voice. And if some of these terms don't sound familiar to you, don't worry. But that's why you're taking the course. So you know what these these grammar things mean and how to teach it to your students. So basically, this is the course content of the 120 hour course in a nutshell. And like I said, there are 20 units and it includes all of these things. And once you're done, you're really good to go when it comes to teaching English abroad, you'll you'll you'll have it all in your head, hopefully, and then you can use it in the real world. OK, and then this is kind of our question, right? So is a 120 hour TEFL course enough to get a TEFL job abroad? Because like I said, in the beginning, you might be doing some Googling and you might see some other course options, the 220 hour course, the 250 diploma course, the 550 hour course, which one should you take? So is the 120 hour course enough to get a job? So yes and no, I think yes and no would be a good answer. So first of all, you need to know that the 120 hour course is the basic international standard for gaining employment as a paid English teacher abroad or teaching English online. And I'm saying paid here because we also, for example, have a 60 hour introductory TEFL course and that one would be something you want to do if you want to if you want to do volunteer teaching in different countries abroad, for example, so those would be unpaid. But if you want a full time, paid teaching job abroad, the minimum you should get is the 120 hour course. This is the basic international standard. OK, and so here, essential criteria, instruction provided by a qualified instructor typically holding a university degree related to TESOL and possesses accreditation from a recognized body within the field. So this is the essential criteria for a good 120 hour TEFL course. Basically, if you want to pick one, you should make sure that they are provided by a qualified instructor who has a university degree related to TESOL, who has worked in the field, of course, and who possesses also the institution, the TEFL institution possesses accreditation from a recognized body within the field. So these are two things, two important things you need to look out for when choosing the right TEFL course. And of course, I'm going to tell you that ITTT's TEFL courses check all of those boxes and more, right? All of our staff have been teaching English abroad for decades. In some cases, they are all qualified instructors, university degree holders and also ITTT as an organization has accreditation from various recognizing bodies in the field. So if you pick ITTT, you're good to go. You're you're fine. That's what I'm just saying. All right. So I think is there something more because I wanted, yes. OK, so is the 120 hour TEFL course enough to get a TEFL job based on these two things? Yes, it is enough. However, it is the basic international standard too. Right. So and maybe we're going to talk a little bit about that more in detail, but later on. But yes, so this is the minimum, the basic international standard course that you want to get if you want to teach English abroad. Get the 120 hour TEFL TESOL course. A lot of international schools in other countries, employers, English migrant centers, also some of the government funded teaching programs that there are, for example, the JET program in Japan, the Epic program in Korea, Taepith program in France. All of these different teaching teaching programs from these different governments, they also want a minimum of 100 hours of studying. So that's usually the thing. One minimum of 100 hours of studying. And that's why the 120 hour course covers that. And that is the international standard, the 120 hour. You want to have at least that everything under that is not going to be enough in most cases. So you really want to aim for at least 100 hours, 120 hour TEFL course. All right, we have Jing here. Hi, Jing. Hi from Philippines. We plan to enroll in the 120 hour TEFL course. Great. Well, you're in the right place here, in the right place. Let me know if you have any questions, but we're going through the 120 hour course right now, so stay tuned and then you can also ask any questions that you have about this course and the process. OK, so then how long does it take to complete a 120 hour TEFL class or course? So just for your timeline, if you want to teach English abroad, you know, how far in advance do you need to do this when you need to start? So basically, this is what it looks like. OK, you choose a TEFL course and you work through the units. And depending on the type of TEFL course you choose, you have between six and 12 months to complete the course. This is the online course. But if you're doing an in class TEFL course, those are four weeks long. So you stay at a physical training center full time, roughly eight hours a day in addition to homework and practice teaching. And this is usually Monday to Friday and then off on the weekends. And then you can choose a training center of your choice all around the world. You can check that on our website in the in class teaching section, all the available training centers at the moment, but really everywhere kind of in the world we have one all all continents are covered. So you can check it out. Typically, what you want to do if you want to take an in class TEFL course and, for example, you want to teach English in Spain, you would pick an in class TEFL course in Spain and then you would go there for four weeks, do your thing. And then in some cases, you can find you can start applying, start your job search right after this course when you're already in the country. So that's usually a very smart move. But sometimes you can't do that because you can do that, but then you have to go back home anyway to apply for a work visa. So this depends on the country. Some countries, they will not let you do the paperwork when you're already in that country, you have to do that from your home country. It depends sometimes. But a lot of in class TEFL training centers are doing that. They will help you with your job search and then you can stay right away. Or you just go back home real quick, do your paperwork and you come back. And then so with the online course, specifically the 120 hour course, you have up to six months to complete this course. So as you can see here, you choose a TEFL course. So let's say we choose the 120 hour TEFL course. You work through the units. You have six months to do that. But most people finish it much faster. It depends on how many units per week or per day you're working through. So in my case, when I did this course, I was already working and I didn't have that much time to work through all the units. So I did just a couple of units, a couple of hours a week. And it took me between three and four months to complete it while working full time. So if you're working full time, maybe three to four months is a good timeline. If you have more time and you study more quickly, you can do it faster. If you're really in a rush, you could do it in technically in 10 days. You can do two units a day and there's 20 units. So you could be done if you do two units a day, which I don't recommend. But if you're really, really, really in a rush, because like you need this quick, you could do this technically in 10 days, but it's not recommended. And then you receive the certificate. You receive a hard copy certificate in the mail to anywhere in the world where you live an actual hard copy certificate and you also receive a PDF version of the certificate. And to be honest, you don't really need the hard copy certificate. In many cases, you'd sometimes need it depending on the country you're moving to, then you would have to show it at the embassy. It's part of the application process, the documents, but in some countries, it is not a requirement and you really need the PDF one for applying for jobs when you send off your online application. So that's when you really, really need it. So I think the PDF version is actually much more needed than the actual hard copy one at the PDF version. You receive as soon as you finish your course right away. But for the hard copy, of course, you have to wait a little bit until it gets to you in the mail and then you can start applying for jobs and you start to teach. And Shauna here has a question saying, when I finished a 120 hour course, will the online tutor help me find and apply for all those government jobs? So your online tutor will actually not do that. Your online tutor is there to guide you through the course process. So they will help you with any questions related to the course that you're taking. So they're with you throughout the whole course process. And then after that, other ITTT staff will help you. Might be also the same person, but we have a special team for that. For the after course things, they will help you find and apply for all those government jobs, so they will give you all the resources to all the places that you need to apply to. They will also help you with your application. Make sure your application looks good. They will send you some stuff for interview, interview, preparation, these kinds of things. So this might not be the same person. It might be a different person. Yeah, but all ITTT course graduates have lifetime job support. So that means you get access to our database of job offers all around the world. They're also updated daily with new jobs. Some of them are on our website. You can everybody can see them. They're open, but a lot of the resources also are for your eyes only, for internal use only. So these are unadvertised jobs and we've been working with a lot of schools and recruitment agencies and all of these government government programs as well, who specifically like to hire from our course graduate pool. So they would send us job offers that we then share internally with you guys and not advertised openly for everybody else. But yes, there's there's job support there. Absolutely. OK. Yeah, absolutely. Lifetime job support fantastic. It is fantastic. I agree with you. And that's great because, for example, if you're taking this course right now, but then life happens, right? Sometimes it's unpredictable. Something happens and you might not be able to start your teaching journey right away, maybe it takes a year or two or five or six. I don't know. You can still after all that time come back to us and be like, hey, I graduated from this course in 2015, but I never had the chance to go abroad. But now I have the chance. Now I'm ready and please help me and we can still help you. So that's really good because sometimes life just happens, right? You never know or things like COVID, right? Where everything just changes drastically and you can't really go abroad. So things like that. It's very useful. OK, so this is how long does it take to complete a TEFL course? Again, you have up to six months to complete this course. And if you take, for example, what Shauna is taking, the 550, you have even more time because you take these courses individually. The TEFL, the TESO, the PLAMA course, you have up to one year to complete this course. So it depends on the course, but specifically the 120 hour course, you have up to six months to complete that one. And that really should give you all the time in the world to do it. OK. And then, yeah, how much does a 120 hour TEFL course cost? So the regular price as advertised on our website, you will see is two hundred and forty nine US dollars, but with today's discount, I just put this up here, it's only one hundred and seventy four US dollars. So you save seventy five dollars with today's discount. So again, how can you get this discount? You can scan this QR code or you can use the link that I'm going to share with you again right now in the comments section for everybody who tuned in a little bit late. This one, it ends with FB Life minus Linda. So if you apply to this course or any other course, it will get you seventy five dollars off. So you only end up paying one hundred and seventy four US dollars. So I always say that don't pay full price, even if you're not ready now to take this. Just copy and paste the link that I share with you. And then when you're ready, just use this link and apply through that later. Don't pay full price, right? That's one of the perks for all of our viewers. Like I said, we only share this during our life sessions. Nowhere else, nowhere else, 30 percent. OK. And then also these are some other course options here, the one hundred and twenty hour, we also have one hundred and seventy hours, two hundred and twenty hours, four hundred and seventy hours and five hundred and fifty hours. And as you can see, of course, the more hours you have, the more expensive it gets. And then at the four hundred and seventy hour mark, it gets the most expensive because this one includes the TESOL diploma and the diploma is the highest level TESOL TEFL certification on the market. So that's why this gap or this jump in price is so big, maybe here. But really what I want to say with one hundred and twenty hour courses, because they are the international standard, right? When you do a Google search, again, you find many different providers. You might even find group on Tefl courses that are twenty dollars or with a discount and they're completely, completely free. Stay away from those. That would be my recommendation. Stay away from free Tefl courses. Just be wary of any one hundred and twenty hour Tefl courses or whatever the number is, honestly, one hundred hours, sixty hours. Any of those courses are free, costing close to nothing. Because with those, it's really like you get what you pay for. Not very much. So cheap and free Tefl courses, they really aren't going to get you the desire to teaching job abroad. Hate to say it, hate to say it. I would have loved to be like, yeah, you know, just use the group on twenty dollar course, you're fine. No, they're most likely not accredited at all. They're not internationally internationally recognized. And they lack basic things like job assistance and even a hard copy certificate. So I really like to compare this to a really cheap budget airline, right? We've probably all flown with budget airlines. The ticket is really cheap, right? But then you have all these add-ons. You have to pay for your luggage. You have to pay for all of these extra things. You have to pay for the boarding pass. You have to pay for checking or I don't even know all of these little things. It's like a budget airline ticket. The initial price is cheap, so you get it. But then you have to pay for getting your certificate. Maybe you have to pay fifty dollars to get your certificate. Maybe you have to pay ten dollars or twenty dollars to get the PDF version of your certificate. Maybe you have to pay for job assistance. Maybe you have to pay them to check your CV or resume. You have to pay them all these extra little details and it's ITTT and any reputable Teflor T-sol course provider. All of these things are already included in the price. And so what ends up happening, you get this twenty dollar Teflor course, this free Teflor course, but in the end you end up paying a lot more than an actual qualified, certified or accredited Teflor course on the market from any of the bigger brands. And Shona says, go with reputable ITTT people. Thank you, Shona. Yes, that's what I'm trying to say. That's what I'm trying to say. Exactly. Go with ITTT or there are other companies out there too that are accredited and that are really good. I'm not saying ITTT obviously is not the only one, but there are a lot out there that are just not it. Honestly, they're just not it, especially the really cheap ones. They're just not it, honestly. So, yeah, avoid those. That's just my recommendation. Avoid those. Don't go and get Groupon, Teflor courses. Just do not get you anything. It really not. OK, then let's talk a little bit about the other course options. And I'm just going to have some more coffee here. Yeah, delicious. So we talked about the 120 hour course, but you're asking, well, what about any other course options on your website? What about those? What's different, etc. So it really depends on so which course to pick. And I'm just going to make myself a little bit bigger. Yeah. So which course you should pick depends on a couple of different factors. OK, it depends on the country you want to go to. Is it a very competitive place? For example, Korea, where I live, is very competitive, especially the epic program for teaching English in Korea. Japan is very competitive. China depends on where in China is competitive. So if you're applying, if you want to go to a very competitive place, for example, the 120 hour course is the minimum, the international standard, the basic minimum certificate. So this means all the other applicants are likely also going to have it. So if you go to a very competitive place and you want to stand out, a great way to do that is to get more hours of training, just a higher, tethered course with more hours and then you stand out. It stands out if everybody else has the 120 hour course, but you have 220 hours. Well, that stands out. So that's kind of why. Another thing could be like if you are, for example, a non native English speaker and you're going to competitive market, you're competing with native English speakers and we talked about that a couple of weeks ago in the live session. Unfortunately, there is great prejudice and bias, of course, you know, towards native English speakers, not native English speakers. A lot of places they just prefer hiring native English speakers because they think they're better teachers, which is just not true, right? It's not true. But unfortunately, that's how a lot of people in the EFL industry still think. And so if you are a non native English speaker, getting more higher, more hours with your TEFL T-SOUL certificate will also help you compete with them, but it really depends. For example, if you have no bachelor's degree, no university degree, you can also get more hours in TEFL that will also be a plus for you, right, if you have more TEFL hours, so just things like that. That's when it becomes useful, more hours in your TEFL course. So let's look at these other options. So the one the next one after the 120 hour course would be the one hundred and seventy hour course, and this course combines the one hundred and twenty hour certificate with our five hundred and fifty fifty hour, excuse me, with our fifty hour specialized course in teaching English online. OK, so this is a popular option that provides the perfect start for anyone who wants the skills to teach in both a traditional classroom and a virtual classroom. So the one hundred and seventy hour course specifically is great for somebody who wants to teach English online. So for example, or you want both, right? Like I mentioned earlier with now the whole remote working and digital remote visas, it's possible to teach English online remotely, but work abroad. And a lot of times you're going to see this if when you move abroad as an English teacher and you live there for a while, you make connections, you make you have a network and opportunities are going to come your way, right? So there might be like an English school and they're looking for someone to teach there just a couple hours a week, maybe. And with a one hundred twenty with one hundred and seventy hour course, you can do that, right? You can do both. So maybe you're three days a week, you're teaching at this training center and then the remaining time you're teaching English online. That's all possible. So then if this is something you would like to do, then the one hundred and seventy hour course would be great, for example. Then the next higher up level would be the two hundred and twenty hour master package course, and this is the one that I have also. So this is this is a great value package and it combines three of our most popular online courses, which is again the one hundred and twenty hour TEFL course and then the fifty hour teaching English, teaching business English and the fifty hour course in teaching English to young learners. So this is the one that I but when I took the courses, this package did not exist yet. So I had to take every course individually, which is actually more expensive. So then I decided, let's just put it all in the package and then it's cheaper. OK, so this course is great. And this is I would recommend this one literally for anyone who wants to just get more than the bare minimum, the one hundred and twenty hour course because young learners, especially if, for example, if you want to teach English in Asia or in places where where most of your students are likely going to be children, then the young learners course is just so useful and beneficial. And then also if you're going to a place where you can teach business English, great, this course is just great. And employers are going to be very impressed because you have a hundred hours more than the international standard. So I think that's really great. And this course, because I have business English certification, I also have teaching English to young learners certification. This has got me a lot of different jobs. I've taught business English because I had this course or the certification, which was super interesting. I really liked it. I worked at really big Korean companies, pharmaceutical companies. I think are technical. One pharmaceutical company, a really famous one. I worked for and then some technology companies. Well, I've also done some English interviewing for some of these big companies. So you can get these kinds of projects when you have a business English certificate as well, which is really, really interesting. It can be a nice change from teaching like your regular kindergarten English classes. If you have a little bit of business English experience, that can be really good. So these are two options. And then we have two more options, which is the three hundred and seventy hour diploma course and the diploma in TESOL will really add some weights to your resume when applying for teaching jobs worldwide with professional tutor support and a free additional course, which can be business English, young learners or teaching online. It's a very popular choice as well. So the diploma courses and also the five hundred and fifty hour experts diploma package course also includes the diploma course. So these are packages, course packages for people who really want to maximize. Everything is everything. So, for example, Shauna said she's taking the five hundred and fifty hour expert diploma course. So great. You get everything, everything. You have the standard one hundred and twenty hour course. You have every single specialized course as well. And you have the TESOL diploma course. So this is really as best as it gets. If your goal is to teach English abroad, maybe in a very competitive place, maybe Shauna, somebody who's already older a little bit, you know, and going to a competitive market, then you really want to have the best possible foundation. If somebody wants to go and teach English long term. If, for example, you want to go teach English abroad just for a year or two, this course is probably not right. Probably just 120 hour or two hundred and twenty hour course is enough. The five hundred and fifty and three hundred and seventy courses with the diploma are for people who really want to make this a long term career. So people with this kind of certification, they can also move on to be head teachers in their schools later on. All of these things and Shauna says everyone will be fighting to get me. Absolutely. Yes. Yes. Absolutely. So this is really great for people who really want to do this long term and want to just have the best possible foundation when applying the best possible skill set is the five hundred and fifty hour course. Yep. Great, Shauna. So these are the course options. Now, I hope you know a little bit more about the course options, the differences and which one might be right for you. If you still have any questions, you can always reach out to me if you want. Or always a good idea is to talk to one of our course consultants. So you can just email us at courses at tsolminusteffel.com and tell us a little bit of the background, your background, you know, your educational background and kind of your goal where you want to go. And then we can we can have a consultation. We can recommend the perfect course for you, basically. So reach out to us courses at tsolminusteffel.com and we'll have a consultation. OK. Yes. So what about specialized courses? So we touched on those already because they're included in these course packages. But for example, if you're taking the 120 hour course and then a couple of years later, you come back to us and you're like, oh, I really want to take one of the specialized courses, you don't have to purchase a package right away. Or people who have taken this course a long time ago and the specialized courses were not a thing back then. You can come back now and you can also take them individually. So again, this is the 60 hour CTBE teaching business English, 60 hour teaching English to young learners and 60 hour certification with no sorry, teaching English online course. So business English, children and teaching online, those three options. And with today's discount, they're only one hundred and thirty nine U.S. dollars each. And so this is for people who are already Teflor T-SOL certified. And you can also be Teflor T-SOL certified from a different provider. That's also fine. As long as it is an accredited course of at least 120 hours, then you you can also take one of these courses just separately if you don't want to get a package. That's also fine on top of what you already have, for example. Just wanted to mention that because, again, these specialized courses are just really great to kind of uh, yeah, top up your resume and just make it a little bit more powerful, impactful, impressive, all of these things. So good. Then, yeah, let's talk a little bit about what can you do with a Teflor course, right? You you're like, what can I do? Can I only teach English abroad? What can I do? So yes, basically it is mainly for teaching English abroad. Right. It can open doors to really exciting opportunities, teaching English abroad, online, a combination of the two. A lot is possible. So for teaching English abroad, some hot spots definitely include Asia. Asia is the biggest market for teaching English abroad. So if you're interested in Asia, teaching English is a really great way to kind of get a foot into the door here on the Middle East as well, Latin America. These are the hotspots where the demand is the highest. But we also have a lot of graduates who move on to teach English in Europe. Even though Europe tends to be more competitive, but Asia, Middle East, Latin America are the hotspots. But other places are not impossible, but might be a little bit more challenging. Celery, they really range from a thousand to over five thousand US dollars a month. So it really depends on obviously the country where and also the city. Definitely Asia has high salaries, especially East Asia. So that is China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong also. They have pretty high salaries and also great benefits. You get like paid airfare, paid housing, health insurance. You get pension plan and bonuses sometimes. Like when you renew your contract for another year, you get a bonus. Things like that. The Middle East actually has the highest salaries out of all of the regions and many countries in that region also offer tax free salaries. So you don't pay any income tax, you get everything out, which is really great. Latin America has the lowest salaries out of all of these pretty much. So it's still a hotspot. But if you're in it for the money, Latin America probably is not the best option because you also don't have many of these additional perks. You don't have free housing most of the time. You don't have paid airfare, any of these things. They are typically found in Asia and the Middle East. So if you're in it for the money, Middle East and then Asia and then avoid Latin America, but you know, everybody's different. If you're after the money, go to these places. If you're after whatever you're interested in, right? If you want to really learn, if you really want to learn Spanish, for example, of course, go to Latin America, whatever your dream is, right? Teaching online, you can also do that with a TEFL certificate, of course. You can work for different teaching platforms or you can also work independently. You can set up your own online teaching business. You can set up your own website and offer services, for example. And then really when you do that, the salaries are up to you, right? What you make your hourly, what you charge your students is up to you. On many teaching platforms, it's up to you how much you charge. There are also online teaching schools that hire teachers and they have set salaries and they're typically between ten and thirty dollars per hour. So it depends on the platform, how much you make there. So, yeah, some teaching platforms also have minimum teaching hours per week, for example, there are some out there where it's like you have to at least teach 10 hours a week. Some other platforms don't have that at all. Even if you just teach one hour a week, that's fine. Or if you don't teach it all one week, you take some time off. That's also fine. So if you're interested more in teaching English online, go and check out our playlist of previous live sessions. I did a whole guide to teaching English online from from the beginning to then getting regular students and all that because I went through all that in 2021. I had no idea about teaching English online. And so in that life, I also share a lot of my own personal experience about the whole process and good platforms to work for the differences between these platforms, all of this stuff. So go to our playlist and check it out there if you're interested. Also, if you're interested in kind of combining these two, you want to live abroad, but you also want to work remotely. Like teach English online. Go and check out our previous digital nomad sessions. They're not too long ago. I did one and now we have, I said it earlier, but there's 55 countries with digital nomad visas around the world. So you can go live abroad, but work online, which is great for and one great way could be teaching English online because the demand is very high. Yeah, there are also a couple of other things you can do just from my experience and other people really living abroad, teaching English abroad can open up so many different opportunities. So I have friends who ended up then working, for example, in Korea here. They started out being English teachers and then one of them just recently or maybe already a year ago, actually, but not too long ago opened his own English language school. So a lot of people are doing that, right? Because it's really great when you have a native English speaker or a foreigner opening an English language school, that can be a great advantage when you're amongst just local schools. So he's done that. Some other people have moved on to, for example, work for companies who create English language teaching material. So you could be a textbook writer for teaching materials. You can write your own textbooks. Really, there are a lot of opportunities once you are abroad and you make these connections, like I said, the sky is really the limit where it can take you, right? Teaching English abroad is just one basically the beginning of an adventure of living abroad and doing all these different things. So let's recap maybe before we go into Q&A. So if you want to teach English as a foreign language abroad or online, a TEFL certificate is a must have. It's super useful. Again, what is a 120 hour TEFL course? So this is taken by people, English speakers who want to teach English abroad or online, it is a certification, but it also teaches you how to teach, right? So you can provide high value for your students. Is a 120 hour TEFL course enough? Yes, it is the basic international standard for getting a paid English teaching job abroad or online. So it's it's the standard. Again, if you want to stand out, if you're applying in very competitive places, you might want to add on to that. You might want to get some of the specializations. You might want to get the 220 hour course just to stand out a little bit. But yes, it is enough. It is enough, but it is the standard, the minimum. How much does a 120 hour TEFL course cost? We talked about that. Should have put the price on here again. But it is how much was it with the discount? I forgot here. One hundred and seventy four dollars with today's discount. So you save seventy five dollars. And I'm going to share the link with you again in the comments in just a second. Or you take a screenshot of this real quick and you can scan the QR code. So, yes, one hundred and seventy four. Here we go. And again, just want to put that out there. Be wary of any TEFL course costing close to nothing or offered completely free. Again, like your group on courses, twenty dollar group on courses or free group on things again, like I said earlier, it's kind of like a budget airline, so the ticket is really cheap. But then all the add on start piling up. So this is what this is. You have to pay for every single thing you have to pay for your certificate. You have to pay for the shipment. You have to pay to get it printed. You have to pay for the PDF. You have to pay for job support. You have to pay for everything. And then it just ends up so and then it ends up costing more than if you chose a reputable company in the first place. So just stay away from that. It's it's not great. It's not great. That's the recap, I think. Let me know if there's any other things I didn't mention or you want me to mention again, I think that's the most important info. And then how to reach ITTT so you can actually request a call back. So when you go to TEFL course net here, this website, you see at the header menu, it says request call back and then you can speak with somebody face to face, not face to face, like on the phone. We also have conference calls. So you can also arrange that if you want to speak with somebody face to face through Zoom or Skype, also possible. And as always, you can email us courses at T so minus tefl.com. And again, our course consultants will sit down with you. We'll have a chat and we'll let you know which course option might be the best for you specifically because everybody is different. There's no one size fits all with this stuff. It really depends on sorry, your background and your goal, your destination. If you want to teach English long term, short term, all these things. It's not everybody's saying. So I just encourage you to reach out and have a consultation so you really know what course is best for you. And then Q&A. Again, this is our discount code and I'm just going to share the link again in the comments so we're all set with that. You know what to do, apply through this link. Don't pay full time, full time. Don't pay full price. Save 30 percent, you know. And yeah, this is it. Great. All right. This is the link, FB live minus Linda ends with that. So you know, it's the correct link. Like I said before, you can just copy, paste it and save it somewhere so that when you're ready to take a course, you can use this link to sign up or you sign up right away if you already know, oh, this course. I want to take that course. Oh, good. You don't have to do this right away. You can take your time or you can do it right now, whatever. Everything is possible. And then Q&A. So if you have any questions about the courses that we talked about today or just something totally different, now is your chance to ask away. So ask me your questions. I'm going to keep an eye here on the comments and then feel free. Shona says, great call tonight. Thank you for all the info. Eat some kimchi for me. Oh, my gosh. Perfect. Yeah, it is 1135, so almost lunchtime and I'm already thinking about what to eat. And I might have some kimchi. I have a really, my husband is Korean, so my Korean mother-in-law, she always makes the best kimchi and other side dishes and she sends it over to our house and it's just the best. So I do have some kimchi in my fridge and I'm definitely going to have it. It's a must with every meal, right? Great. Thanks, Shona. I appreciate that. Please join us next time again, Shona. I'd love to see you again. Awesome. Yeah. Good stuff. Yeah. So like I said, this is a weekly thing. So if you're new to this, I will be going live again next week with another topic. Actually, Shona, this might be also interesting to you because somebody reached out to me. We also always turn our live sessions into podcast episodes. And so we had a podcast listener who reached out to me and she's over 40. And she was asking about kind of like the challenges and opportunities for older TEFL teachers. So I'm currently preparing the next live session to be about that. And I'm hoping that because there's a lot of information, but I think I will be able to do it next week. So, Shona, this would be great for you as well. Join us again. If you like and subscribe, you're going to see on YouTube and also on our Facebook page, the topic for next week's live session. You're going to see that you're going to get notified. And it might be TEFL T-SOL for older 40 plus people. So, Shona, you might want to check it out. Great. And also, if you have any topic suggestions, anybody else out here watching or listening, reach out to me, send me a message on Instagram at LindaGhostEast. You can reach out to me and just send me a list of topics you want me to cover. Daniel says, hi, Linda. Daniel here. I'm late. Thought I was wondering if there is a live session you hosted where you shared your experience networking with colleagues. I could use some coaching on that aspect in the future. OK, yeah. You know what? I'm going to take a screenshot of this. Cool. Yes. OK. Like networking when teaching English abroad or before teaching English abroad. That's cool. That's a good idea. Yes. Thank you, Daniel. And good to see you. I missed you here for a second. I was like, oh, Daniel's not here. OK, let me save that. That's a great topic suggestion. Very good. I appreciate it. I'm going to save it here. On a document. Because I'm always we've done live sessions for three years now, I think. So, you know, we always try and do something new, obviously. But sometimes it gets challenging to find new topics. So I appreciate you guys letting me know exactly what you want me to talk about. Cool. OK, I saved it. Thank you so much. Lisa Fondenberg says, I did my 220 hour master's a few years back. I haven't done any business English lessons. Is there any way to be able to refresh my business English course? Oh, yeah. Sure. Yes. So what I would suggest email us at courses at tesol minus techful dot com. Let the people know that you're interested in the refresher. Or if you have saved your materials from that time, you know, did you download the PDF? You can always save the course material and you can just review it. Or, you know, if you haven't done that, if you didn't save it, you can ask them if they could just send it to you and then you can review it. That's that would be my suggestion. Email them and let them know. Or if you can still log in, but it's a few years ago, so you might not be able to log in anymore and you can try just give them your login, your ID that you had the student ID at the time or your email address, just your name is fine, too. They'll be able to find that in the record and then they can send you the material and you can review that. Good question. OK, let's do one final minute. Last question. Who will be the last question today? And then I'm going to go. Head into the weekend. Prepare my lunch with kimchi. Let me know. Last question, or maybe everybody's happy. Maybe everybody's happy. No more questions. That's cool, too. Just let me know. OK, Dean here. Hi, just to ask if already been registered. Can I still re-register in your link since it's offering 30 percent? Well, if you haven't paid yet, so if you just apply it, but you haven't paid yet, you can just fill out a new application with the link. No problem. Yes, you can do that. All right, good. Then I think I'm going to say goodbye. Thank you so much for tuning in, everybody. Thank you, Shauna, for all your questions today. That was really great. Thank you so much, Loretto, for staying up that late 3.30 a.m. That's great. Amitava, thank you so much. Jing, thanks for your questions. And Daniel, thanks for tuning in as well. Lisa, thank you for your questions. As always, we will be back again next week. You can always reach out to me via DM if you have any questions at LyndaGhost. Ease on Instagram. Email us with your questions here. Courses at tesallminusteffel.com. And then I hope to see you all again next week. Like and subscribe so you get notified for any future live sessions on Facebook and on YouTube. And then thank you. I'm just going to say thank you and have a happy weekend. Have a great weekend. Stay happy. Stay healthy. And I hope to see you again next week. Thank you, guys, so much. And I'm out. Thank you. Bye.