 Back with another live session for ITTT. Yeah, today we're gonna have a Tefal TESOL Q&A chat. Just a casual opportunity for us to have a chat about all things teaching abroad, online, Tefal TESOL, everything in between. Whatever you are curious about, you have the opportunity to ask and hopefully I'll be able to answer and help you out with your questions in this field. So hello and welcome, my name is Linda. You can also find my personal account at lindegoseast on Instagram and also on my website, lindegoseast.com. If you can see me, if you can hear me clearly, please do let me know in the comment box below. We are live on Facebook and on YouTube at the same time and we're also available as a podcast. So if you're listening to this as a podcast, thank you so much for the download. We recently just hit a milestone of over 6,500 podcast downloads. So woohoo, that's awesome. If you're also interested in our podcast, you can find us on all major podcast platforms. You just type in a Teflon TESOL podcast by ITTT on iTunes, Google podcasts, Spotify, all of those places. And yes, let's jump in. Let me have a look at the comments. Hello, we have EG. Hello, Linda, good morning. How are you today? I am pretty good. How about you? Thanks for joining again. It's awesome. I also have my coffee here. I like to have a coffee nearby. It is 10.30 a.m. I am based in South Korea. So I need my morning coffee. And actually this is already my second morning coffee today. But yes, this is what's going on today. We are having a chat, a Teflon chat. I also have some slides for some typical questions that we get all the time. So maybe if someone asks the same question, I'll be able to also pull up some visuals. And I also have prepared some questions that I have for you, everyone who's watching today. Hello there, Hasnawi Mohammed. Hi, where are you watching from? Hi, welcome. This is actually one of my first questions I have for you. Where are you right now? Where are you guys watching from? Where are you watching from? I am in South Korea. I'm about an hour and a half south of Seoul, pretty much in the center of South Korea. I've been here for almost six and a half years now. So long time. And I have taught English here. I am teaching English still. I also work for ITTT. I teach online as well. And before I came to Korea, I was actually in China. I also taught English over there. And yeah, that's a little bit about myself. I actually have an intro slide that I always use about myself. So I'm gonna share that with you also in a minute, if there's some new people who don't know who I am, who've never seen any of my live sessions before. Okay, Morocco, awesome. What time is it there? Isn't it like 3 a.m. or something? Wow. Then we have somebody from Mexico. Ooh, the city. Can I pronounce it? Cuerna, Cuernavaca, Cuernavaca. I hope I didn't butcher that. I actually took Spanish in school, but yeah, I need to brush up on that. Yes, Morocco is a very beautiful country. You are right. I really wanna go to Morocco, actually. I really wanna go. Then we have Dubai. Awesome, I also wanna go to Dubai. Cool, very, very cool. Another person from Mexico. Hi, Kika from Veracruz, Mexico. Awesome. I have also never been to Mexico. I'm so sad. I really wanna go. I used to live in San Diego, which is like literally 30 minutes away from the border, but I did not cross the border at the time when I lived there. Cool, it's 2.34 at night. Wow, in here it's 5.30 a.m. What are you all doing up? Wow, you don't need sleep? If I don't get eight hours of sleep, I'm like trash in the morning. I can't. Awesome, okay. We have a good mix. So we have some people from Mexico. We have people from Morocco and Dubai. I'm in Korea. Great, that's a good start. Awesome. Very, very cool. Okay. How about this? I'm just gonna do my introduction and you can follow along. For those who don't know me, so my name is Linda. I am a Teflrider and also content creator under my name, Linda Goes East. Also here, this is my handle. You can find my own website, lindegoseast.com and also on Instagram. I'm very active on Instagram. I really love Instagram. You can find me there at lindegoseast. Go ahead and follow along if you're interested in all things Korea where I'm at and also teaching stuff. I'm originally from Germany and the US. My mom is German, my dad's American and I'm based in South Korea for about six and a half years now. I'm also a Tefl and TESOL marketing professional for ITTT, which stands for International Tefl and TESOL Training. And you can find our website at Teflcourse.net and on Instagram, International Tefl Training. We're also on all the other social platforms. So some of you are watching on YouTube right now. Some of you are watching on Facebook. So you're already there. If you haven't liked the page or subscribed to the channel, I recommend you do that. You're already here. You don't have anything to lose and we share a lot of great content every day. Yeah, ITTT is a leading Tefl and TESOL course provider worldwide. We have a big variety of different courses, all of that good stuff. And I actually also have some slides where I have a little bit of some information about the courses that we offer in case you are not yet sure which course to take. Hi, Juliana. Hi, good to see you. Awesome. Good. So that's a little bit about me. And then I also wanna mention that we do have a 30% off opportunity today. So you can get 30% off any Tefl or TESOL course from ITTT. You can either scan this QR code with your phone and you'll be taken to the application page with the code or you can also click on the 30% off discount link in the comment box. It looks like this. You should see it now in the comments on YouTube and on Facebook. And you can just click on that and then it leads you to the application page. You can fill out your application and you get 30% off any Tefl or TESOL course. And this is a very special discount that we only share during our live sessions. So only you guys can take opportunity of this. Okay. Good. Hello, Daniel. Hey there. Good to see you. All right. So this is that. And yeah, like I said today, you have the opportunity to ask away questions that you have about teaching English abroad or online or maybe in a specific country or about any of the Tefl courses, anything Tefl or TESOL related. Any questions that you might have today's your opportunity to ask and I'll do my best to answer them based on my years of experience and my time at ITTT. And yeah, I myself have the certificates. I took the courses as well. That's actually how I found out about ITTT. I was in China at the time. I was already teaching and I knew that after China, I wanted to go to Korea. So then I was looking for a Tefl course provider and I found ITTT. And then I just took the course, got the certificate and then I just somehow ended up here working for ITTT. So yeah, that's the T about this situation. Okay. Good. We have our first question from Jason. Hi, Jason. How are you doing? Jason asks, do I need a bachelor's degree to teach in Africa generally? Okay. So Africa is a huge continent, right? Many different countries. All the different countries do have different requirements, regulations. So let me take a look. I do have a slide about requirements here. So let me just pull that up. Just that's the demand where requirements. I think here. Yes. So the requirements for teaching English, like I just said, they really vary from place to place. Now for Africa specifically, do you need to have a bachelor's degree? So the bachelor's degree is one of the requirements that are pretty typical for any teaching job in any place, but it doesn't have to be in the field of education or teaching typically. It can be any kind of bachelor's degree. However, there are still positions that you can find where if you don't have a degree, you can also find positions. That's what I was trying to say. And specifically for Africa, depending on the country, there are a lot of volunteer teaching positions in Africa. And for those, the requirements are definitely a little bit lower than for example in Asia or Europe or the Middle East. The Middle East tends to have the toughest requirements. It also depends on the school type. Some other requirements for teaching English tend to be teaching experience. Some countries actually need experience. Also in the Middle East, I think they need at least two years of experience. You can also be a native or a non-native English speaker in most cases. So even if you are not a native English speaker, you can still find teaching positions abroad or online as well. And then just some other requirements like adaptability because you are going to be teaching in a different culture if you teach abroad and just the eagerness to learn new things. Just open-mindedness is a very good skill to have for teaching English abroad. Yeah. All right. Hey, Brett, how are you doing? All right. Let me take a look. Oh, okay. Jason added some comments here. Notably, Zambia and Botswana have a three-year degree with 70% early childhood. Yeah. I mean, that sounds very, very good. So I think you're more than qualified for sure. Add to that a Teflor T-Soll certificate and you are good to go, Jason. That sounds really good. Cool. All right. Let's have a look at Christina's question here. Hi, Christina. Is it hard to get a teaching job in Spain if you don't have teaching experience but you also have a Teflor certificate? Yeah. So actually about experience. Most teachers that I've met abroad didn't have any prior teaching experience before going abroad to teach. So it's pretty common not to have any experience. Experience usually is a plus, right? Unless you're applying for like an international school or you wanna teach at a university, then yes, you do need to have experience. But just your regular normal school, most of the teachers who teach in normal schools, public schools or just private language schools, they don't have teaching experience. We all start somewhere, right? But of course, any kind of experience helps. And if you do have a Teflor certificate, it's great. So I think you can definitely find a job in Spain with a Teflor certificate without having experience, for sure. And I actually did a live session about teaching English in Europe before and there was a section about Spain. So I encourage everybody to check out our playlists about previous live sessions and just browse through them on Facebook. And also on YouTube, we have a whole playlist of our previous live sessions and you can find maybe something that you're interested in. So for example, Christina, you could check out the how to teach English in Europe live session and then just watch the part about Spain, for example, and there's a lot of great info there as well. Also some good job sites or places how to find jobs and positions in Spain. So I highly recommend checking that out. All right. Oh, and I have a question for you guys. Can I go back to the beginning? Okay, let's go back here. And I have a question before we continue. Here. Are you already Teflor or TESOL certified? Who here is already certified? You can just say yes, certified or no, not yet. I'm really curious. This is also gonna help me fine tune my answers to you. If I know a little bit more background about you guys, but just let me know, are you already certified? Teflor certified, TESOL certified, yes or no? Let me know. I'm very curious. I am certified. I just showed you my certificate. So this is the 120 hour certificate. That's like the standard course. And I also have specialized Teflor certificate courses. If you're interested, I'm also gonna talk about those in a little bit because those are really, really interesting. Okay, Jason says I have a diploma of TESOL but girlfriend wants a certificate but needs IELTS first. Okay, got it. Okay, cool, cool. Yeah, so at ITTT we accept native speakers and fluent English speakers into our Teflon TESOL courses. So yeah, she can definitely apply and with this 30% discount that should be a great incentive. Okay, EG is not certified yet, okay. Brett, yes. I actually wanted to ask you about your course. Oh, I'm covered. Okay, let me just read this real quick. Brett says I took a course in Rome over the summer and now I'm back in the States preparing this year to make my big move this next summer. Had a blast. The range of place is like to go to has expanded though. Okay, I love Italy but other places intrigue me. I'd like to know the best way to look for jobs and set everything in place so that I'm ready to leave work visas, documentation. Okay, got it. Yeah, I wanted to ask you about your course. How was Rome? It's so jealous still. Awesome. Yeah, I mean the best place to look for jobs it really depends on where you wanna go, you know. You can definitely find teaching positions in like generic places like even LinkedIn or the ESL cafe, places like that but there are also specific sites for specific countries. I also always recommend Facebook groups, you know there's lots of Facebook groups for like ESL teachers in Korea, for example, ESL teachers in China, ESL teachers in Japan. So wherever you wanna go, I think you should first pick a few countries or places you're interested in and then kind of go down that route and go more specific and yeah, like I said, we also have live sessions about how to teach English in Europe, how to teach English in Asia and there are specific sites mentioned there. We also at ITTT, if you are an ITTT course graduate so you have access to lifetime job support. So we can help you find a job in wherever you wanna go and provide you with resources and information. So you can just email us at any time. And yeah, we'll take it from there. Okay, great, Juliana has the 170 hour TESOL certificate. Awesome, congratulations. Irma, hi Irma, how are you? Not yet certified, okay, very good. Very interested, yeah, good. So maybe this 30% discount is a sort of like a little push for you guys to maybe get started on that. The world is slowly opening up more and more so we will hopefully soon get to travel places again. So if you are, now still is a good time to prepare yourself and get ready. So I think, yeah, take advantage of that. Yeah, Jason says, great tip for ESL groups. Yeah, for sure, there's so many ESL groups, particularly on Facebook. We're also even expat groups, you can search for expats in China or whatever. I think networking is a really good strategy to find jobs and also just opportunities in general. So I think, yeah. We have Diana here who is CELTA certified. Awesome, hi Diana. Cool, very, very cool, okay. All right, so now I actually have another question for you guys. So at ITTT we also, besides the standard TEFL course, we also offer specialized courses. We have teaching business English, teaching English to young learners and also teaching English online. Which out of those three are you personally most interested in and why? I would really like to know. I have all of those three certificates and I took them a couple of years apart, not all together. So first, because I was already teaching children, I took the teaching English to young learners certificate and it really helped me better manage my classes. So that course is really great. After that, I did the business English course because then I also started having business English opportunities and that also helped me because it's two completely different things, teaching kids and then teaching business professionals. And last year I also took the teaching English online course and I started teaching English online. So all of those three courses are really good individually but which one for you personally do you think interests you the most? Which of these three interests you the most? Let me know. Like I say, I always need to wait a little bit because there is a delay between me talking and then you seeing it, there's about a 20 to 30 second delay. So let me know which one teaching business English, teaching English to young learners or teaching English online, which of these courses are you most interested in and why? It's also hard to choose one, right? It's best to have all of them, to be honest. Okay, just looking at the comments again, so Brett says it was beautiful but hot, Rome, yeah. Ooh, I bet, yeah. I was in Rome, I think it was already three years ago and it was so hot, yeah. Spain, definitely in the mix. Cool, I also hear right now Portugal is very hot, like a hot, not hot weather wise but it's hot in the summer too but like a hot teaching and also digital nomad destination. So maybe that's, so nobody, nobody's given me any answers here, which specialized Tefal TESOL course are you most interested in? I'm still waiting for somebody to answer. Just anybody, let me know which one's your favorite. Okay, thank you, EG here says teaching young learners. Awesome, okay. Irma says I'm interested in all of them. Yeah, I can see why. It's good to have all of them for sure. I have all of them and I really, I couldn't pick a favorite, to be honest. They're also useful in their own way because they are very specialized, right? In their own field, so that's really good. Okay. Juliana says I was interested in the teaching English to young learners course because I do not have any experience teaching kids languages. So I select this course for a free bundle. Yeah, also Brett says teaching young learners. I currently teach kindergarten. Yeah, I used to teach kindergarten and it's definitely challenging. I think teaching, especially kindergarten, young children is the hardest part, like the hardest type of student you can teach, I think, because it involves so much more than just teaching English. You're also teaching them how to be a proper human being, right? So it involves a lot and just a lot of like sit nicely, raise your hands and stuff. Don't pull your friends' hair, building blocks. Right. Okay, good. I'm surprised nobody said teaching English online. I took that course and it's really a good course. Yeah. And I also, I started teaching online this year and it's been a really great experience. So I really appreciated that course. Okay, good. Well, thanks for your answers. That was insightful. Let's have a look at, oh yeah, because we get this question also a lot. I'm sure most of you already know by now, but we get that asked a lot. You know, what's the difference between Tefl and TESOL? What's the difference between Tefl and TESOL? And yeah, I'm sure by now most of you know this, especially if you're already certified, but Tefl stands for teaching English as a foreign language and TESOL stands for teaching English to speakers of other languages. So they essentially mean the same thing. It's just that Tefl is most commonly used within the UK and within Europe. And TESOL is usually the preferred term in Australia and the US. So it depends on where you are from or where you intend to work. Then you can opt for, hey, I wanna take a Tefl course or hey, I wanna take a TESOL course. The course is the same, the same exact material. But so basically on the certificate, you can choose whether the certificate here should say Tefl or TESOL. That's basically what you can choose. But as you can see also, because it says, oh, maybe I make myself just bigger, because here it also says Tefl and TESOL in like the ITTT logo. But then here you can choose whether it should say Tefl or TESOL. But yeah, that is basically the difference between Tefl and TESOL. Essentially there is no difference. It is just where, what part of the world you are in, you might more use Tefl or you might use TESOL more. Yeah, good. Yeah, I'm throwing it back to you guys. So any question you might have, feel free at any time to ask, don't be shy. I always say there are no stupid questions at all. It's a very broad topic, there's a lot to talk about. And on my slides, I just picked a few things that we get asked all the time. But also feel free to just ask any more specific questions and hopefully I'll be able to help you and answer them. No problem. That's what I'm here for. Actually, that's why I decided to do this Q&A because somebody last week in my live session asked, hey, when are you having like this Tefl talk again, the Q&A? And I thought, okay, let me do that. I try to always prepare like a new topic every week. We do go live twice a week. Once me, usually Friday at this time and then one time my colleague Lisa, she usually goes live on Tuesdays and she's a non-native English teacher from Russia, based in Russia, but she taught in China before. So she's really awesome. You should also check her out. And usually we try to prepare interesting topics every week. And last week, what did I talk about last week? Already forgot. Anyway, someone was saying, hey, when are we having the Tefl talk again, just the random, the casual Q&A? And that's why I was like, okay, let's do this today. We should probably do this, have a casual chat like this once a month, I think. And then the other weeks, we have more specific topics. Also, if you have any topic ideas and suggestions, feel free to let me know. Always looking for something new to talk about and also new guests to invite. So that's definitely fun as well. All right. Do you wanna see what other slides I have in the meantime? Let me see, what do I have? The demand, we already talked about that a little bit. So where can you teach English abroad? Pretty much anywhere. You can really find teaching positions anywhere, but these places here in the map are like the more, where the most demand is. So basically Asia has the biggest demand, still has particularly East Asia. I'm in Korea, English teacher. There are a lot of English teachers here. It's huge, also Japan, Taiwan, China, but China has new regulations now. We're all trying to figure this still out. It's very confusing and we're not quite sure what this is gonna mean for the teaching market in China. So we have to wait and see, but also Southeast Asia, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, those places are very, very high in demand. The Middle East is usually the area which has the highest salaries. They, a lot of countries there actually provides tax-free salaries, which is amazing, but also their requirements tend to be a little bit higher. You need to have teaching experience. You need to have a bachelor's degree, a TEFL certificate. Without that, it will be a little bit difficult to teach in the Middle East because their perks are just too good. And then we also have Europe. I did a live session about how to teach English in Europe and the best places to teach in Europe. With Europe, it can sometimes be a little bit difficult for non-EU passport holders to get in, but there are some countries like, we always like to mention the Czech Republic, which has not as strict requirements. And also there are teaching programs in Spain and France, where also non-EU citizens can get in and then get a teaching position there. Then we also have the, we have Mexico, which is huge because of its relationships with the US. They have a lot of, especially business English positions there, but also children. And then yeah, South America, Brazil is such a huge country. There are a lot of opportunities there. And in other parts, we're also currently organizing a live about specifically Latin America. And I'm going to invite some guests from there because I have actually never been, I haven't taught there, I've never been there. So I'd rather have someone who's actually there and from there and has a school there and is a teacher there to help us and provide just firsthand information. So I'm setting that up at the moment. So stay tuned for that as well. But yeah, that's the overall demand at the moment. And even despite the virus and everything going on, teachers are still hired all over the world. You might have to go through quarantine procedures, but that's how it is in Korea. Teachers are still being hired. You just have to go through quarantine. Even though now there are more and more regulations that accept fully vaccinated people from even if you're vaccinated outside of Korea with one of the major main vaccines, you can skip quarantine in certain situations. So that is changing also all the time. But it's opening up more and more. So I had friends who came to Korea during the pandemic and they did their quarantine. They were fine and then they transitioned into their Korean life. So definitely teaching abroad has not come to a halt at all. It's still going on. Teachers are still being hired. So don't be afraid of that at all. However, if you are, you don't wanna go abroad at the moment understandable, then what a lot of people are doing, they start with teaching online and get experience that way. And also obviously income from at home, which is awesome. And then they get that experience so that when the situation is better and has changed and improved, they can then go abroad and have experience to show to their employers, potential employers in schools. So yeah, very good. Oh yeah, I just remembered last week I talked about teaching online, I think, didn't I? If that interests you, also check that out. Okay, let's see what else we got here. Oh yeah, that's the same, the demand still. These are just some facts. This is a slide I used many times. Some of you might know this already, but yeah, just the demand for English language instruction is still very, very high. There are 2 billion people speaking and learning English around the world and it's increasing as well every year. 300 million people alone in China are learning English, but now because of the regulations changing, it might be difficult to get into China. We're not sure yet how it's going to play out. I think they're even not sure themselves. Anyway, there was a big thing about, first I think it started with online teachers because there's a lot of online companies like VipKid who hire teachers, foreign teachers to teach Chinese children and other ages. So they did a crackdown on that because the government feels like children in China have too much pressure in terms of education and they don't want that. So they banned this kind of online learning with foreign teachers online, but it apparently also extends to face-to-face classes and foreign teachers might be banned in China altogether. So we still wait and see how that's all gonna play out, but yeah, that's the situation. So China is tricky at the moment. It used to be the biggest market, but right now we have to wait and see. I can't imagine how it's gonna change. I don't know. And then, yes, also worth mentioning the different teaching programs. So like Epic, Jet, Tapef, Net, those are all government programs in different countries around the world. So Epic is the Epic program in Korea that hires English teachers from abroad to work in public schools in Korea. The Jet program is the same thing for Japan. The Tapef program is a program in France that hires English teachers and the Net scheme is in Hong Kong. And there are many, many more programs like this that look for English teachers to work in public and private schools in their countries. So this is a great way to get into teaching, especially for people who have no experience or haven't moved abroad yet. You don't have that network yet. It's a great entry, entrance strategy. And yeah, also this is something I find very interesting. So 50% of all teachers abroad, they stay a second year. So 50% of them, they don't wanna leave, they love it, but also 50% are leaving. So there's a continual, continuous turnover every year with new positions open for you guys. So yeah, those are just some statistics I like to mention. Yeah, what else do we have here? Yeah, what's a TEFL certificate? Okay, I think all of you know this, but I also like to mention it's not only because people are like, hey, why do you need a TEFL certificate? It's not a requirement in Korea where I am. I have many TEFL certificates. I have the 120 and I also have the specializations, but it's not a requirement. So why should you even bother getting a TEFL certificate if it's not a requirement, right? Well, it's becoming more and more the standard in teaching English abroad and also online. If you have a TEFL certificate, you get usually better benefits, higher salaries, you get just better opportunities. And also, when I was teaching in China in, that was, I think, 2014, a TEFL certificate was not a requirement, but now it is a requirement to teach in China. So things are changing all the time. Right now in Korea, a TEFL certificate is not a requirement, but that might change in the future. And then if you're already here, you're not certified, what are you gonna do? Then you quickly need to take a course to get ready for that. So it's just better to have it anyway because it is a required certification in a lot of places, but not only that. It's not only this piece of paper that you can hang up on the wall and brag about. It also just teaches you the skills you need to teach. I say this all the time, but being a native speaker or being, fluent English speaker doesn't mean you know how to teach. So taking a TEFL course, you learn all about teaching theories, methods and techniques about classroom management, lesson planning, evaluation and testing, equipment and teaching aids. Also English grammar is a huge part of ITTT's TEFL courses. You need to know all about English grammar and also the problems, the most common problems non-native speakers have with grammar so that you as a teacher can anticipate them and teach them effectively. I think this is the much more like bigger reason why you should take a TEFL course for yourself and for your students so you provide value. You actually know what you're doing, right? So yeah, that is my opinion. But yeah, keep your questions coming. I'm just gonna go back to this Q&A slide real quick. And I also want you to have the opportunity to scan this code at any time. And I'm just gonna make myself a little bit bigger here so we can have a better conversation. But yeah, I see a lot of people are watching right now on Facebook and also on YouTube. So please keep your questions coming. I know everybody at least has one question about teaching abroad, about TEFL courses, about anything. So just ask away. This is your opportunity. So yeah, don't be shy. Don't be shy. I'd love to hear more about you guys. Oh, and I also, I think I forgot to say don't forget to like and subscribe. I did say actually, I did say it. I didn't use the banner, but don't forget to like and subscribe, guys. So let's have a chat. What are you guys thinking? What is, oh, I like to ask this question. I really like asking this question. So what is holding you back? What's holding you back? You're here because you wanna teach English, probably abroad, but you're not at the moment. So what is holding you back at the moment? What's like the biggest thing that's holding you back? Very curious. Okay, very good question. Rat has a question. How long is the online course? Fantastic question. It depends on which course, but yeah, the 120 hour course you have six months to complete it. Six months to complete it. Most people finish it much faster. It depends on how much time you have. Some people are working full time and take the course. Some people are not working. They have more free time, but there are 20 units, 20 units. And yeah, I think I completed it in four months and I was working as a teacher already full time. Oh, the teaching online course. Yeah, so the teaching online, do you mean the specialization? Only the specialization. The specialization is 50 hours. And it's also you have six months to complete it, but it has 10 units, so it's much shorter. And it's a 50 hour course. So you can do that in, depending on how much time you have a month or two, I would say something like that. And it's the same format like the other course. Online platform, you can download the units. You can do the course from any device you like at any time. So totally up to you. All right, then we have a question from EG. Which country do you recommend for a beginner to start with? Oh, there's so many countries, but what defined beginner? So somebody who is TEFL certified, but has no experience, so many places. A lot of people, and also me, like Asia. Asia is a great place to start with because the demand is really high and there's just so much to choose from, especially maybe Southeast Asia would be great. Places like Thailand or through a program, I think also teaching programs are really good for beginners. If you go through the JET program in Japan, it's very organized. So they tell you exactly what to do, what to prepare. They really guide you. So I think a program like this is also really great for beginners. There is like an orientation. Also with the Epic program in Korea, there's like a two week orientation in Seoul, I think everyone together. And then you go to your respective schools. There's also meetups throughout your contract. And you always have this one person, this one guide you can always refer to. So I think programs are great for beginners as well. Okay, Juliana says, can I apply for the teaching online course only? Yes, so that would be the 50 hour specialization course. Yes, you can also apply for that only. I can send you the link if you want. You just go here to specialized courses. Oh, and let me add, you also wanna have the 30% off part of the link. For all of these specialized courses to take them individually, you need to be already TEFL certified. So you need to have at least 100 hours of training. So if you already have the 120 hour course, then you can take the specialized courses individually. Looks like this. Okay, good question. Brett asks, do you recommend taking two courses at the same time? I'm thinking teaching young learners and teaching online at the same time. Yeah. I mean, I think it depends on what kind of learner you are if you get like mixed up with things if you do two at the same time. But then again, it can also be beneficial during two at the same time. I think it depends on you and your personal learning style. Is it possible? Yes. But I think since you have six months to complete each course, you can definitely just do them one after the other as well. I think you can also do them at the same time. Whatever I think works best for you. Yeah, you're welcome. Yeah. So this is the link to the specialized courses and then you can pick if you want the business English or the young learners or teaching online. We have three available at the moment. Maybe I can pull that up. I have a slide about these as well at the bundles. Yeah. So these are your specializations. As you can see, they all start at 175. And then if you sign up through this link, you get 30% off. I'm not very good at math. So I can't really calculate that right now in my head, but it's a big difference. It's a big discount. I know that much. Okay. Hasnawi, Muhammad, do they accept all types of certifications? Who are they? Who, your employers? Who, like when you apply for a job and what kind of certifications? I'm not understanding your question. Excuse me. Can you be a little bit more specific? So what, who are they and what certifications? And then I'll hopefully we'll be able to help you out. So yeah, these are the specializations. And then we also have bundles. And I think I need to make myself smaller just for a minute so you can read that better. But if you already know, you wanna take the specializations, then getting a bundle is definitely a good idea. It saves you money. It's cheaper than purchasing the certifications individually. So the most popular is the 220 hour master package. It has the 120 hour course, the standard course. And then two specializations, the business English and the young learner specialization. So this is the most popular one. So you can take that. Or if you want more hours, the 470 hour professional package, which also has the same three, plus the diploma, TESOL diploma course. So that is a more higher level course. And then we also have the 550 hour package which also has the same thing, plus the online certificate and also a 30, oh, you can't see that now, a 30 hour certificate of teaching practice recognition, which means teaching practice, because all of these courses are online. So the 30 hour certificate of teaching practice recognition gives you a certificate that proves that you also have teaching experience that is validated, checked by ITTT. Yeah, that is that. And then we also have, could I just pull it up, in class Tafel courses, so four week courses at a location of your choice. And Brett, he took the four week in class course in Rome this summer. So Brett, maybe if you're still here, can you just maybe let us know how that went? You already said it was great, but it was hot, but how was that? The four week course, did you enjoy that? How were the trainers? I can't imagine it was really awesome. Being four weeks at the center, were there other trainees as well, or were you the only one? Curious. And yeah, here on this map, all of the yellow dots are where we have in class centers, so you can find us pretty much all over the world, which is pretty cool. And yeah, Brett recently went here to Rome, which is cool. All right, Brett says the trainers were really friendly. Okay, great. Awesome, cool. That sounds fun. And four weeks in Rome, I'm so jealous. I wanna be in Rome for a month, in summer. I would eat like gelato every day and have an uproaral spritz every day. Cool, my class was really small and met some really great people. That's awesome. Those are all, I think, also really great connections because you all wanna be teachers in the future. So you already have a small network of people. So maybe someone is teaching somewhere and then they're leaving the position and then if you wanna go to his previous position or their previous position, maybe you can network and then share your connections abroad with teaching positions because that's also how it works a lot here. I have a lot of friends teaching in Korea and they all the time post like, hey, I'm leaving my school or hey, my school, a teacher is leaving my school, they're looking for a new teacher. It's a lot of word of mouth and search for new teachers as well. So if you have a network connections like that, that's really awesome. So yeah, cool. And then we also have combined courses. So those are a mix between online and in class. So with the combined course, you first complete the online component of the course, the 120 hour course. You also have up to six months to do that. And then after that, you go to an in-class center for five, eight or 10 days. It depends on which location and you get your teaching practice that way. So this is also a very popular option to get teaching practice, this one. Okay, cool. All right, we have time for a couple more questions and then I'm gonna sign off. So if you still are curious about something, now is your time to ask before I am leaving. But again, we go live once a week, twice a week, I go live once a week and then my colleague Lisa also once a week. So ITTT, we go live twice a week. So we will be there again next week. If you can't think of a question right now, you can ask next week. You can also, if you watch this as a replay, ask your question in the comments and we'll get back to you at any time. That is no problem, no problem at all. Okay, and don't forget to use your 30% link. Don't forget, let me just share it one more time. 30% off if you apply through this link. Maybe I'll just show you real quick how to do it. Should I show you real quick? Let me see. If I can do that one second. Okay, I'm gonna share a different tab now so you can see the application process. So when you click on this link to get your discount, you'll see this page, which is the application page. So now of course, maybe you're not ready yet. You don't know which course to take yet. That is no problem. You can still go back to the main page and then look at the different course options to find the course that suits you best. So for example, online and then you're like, okay, I made my choice now. I know which course I wanna take. You just go back to the application page and what you do, you can just fill out your personal data. So I'm just gonna do a test application. I'm just gonna fill in test. Just a fake email address to check it out. This is optional. I'm not gonna fill this out right now. And then you pick your course. So choose your course type. So for example, if we wanna take an online course, which one do we wanna take? Oh, I wanna take the 220 hour master package with tutor and videos and then I also get a free course. That sounds awesome. You can choose your free course. So I wanna do the online course. Plans for your teaching career. So here you can put in where you wanna teach. For example, I would like to teach English online and in Asia, for example. Where would you like to teach? This is optional, but you can pick, for example, ooh, Hong Kong. And then you click on apply now and it takes a little bit of time. And then you see, you saved $120 with this link. So it's 279 instead of 399 with this coupon link. And then you can take it from there. You can pick your preferred payment option. You can do so. You will also get an email that you applied and there will be some payment information. Yeah, so that's how it works. It's pretty straightforward, pretty easy once you know which course you wanna take. And that's it. That's how you get your 30% discount. And you save $120, that's amazing. So I highly recommend you do that. If you're not yet certified, if you're not sure yet, this is a great opportunity. Okay, cool. All right, then I think I'm gonna just turn this off real quick and then if there's somebody who still has one last question, I'll be able to take it now before I sign off for today. But thank you guys so much for tuning in for watching and especially all of you guys who are coming here again and again week after week is really, really great. And it means a lot to me that you just show up every week just like I do. And yeah, like I said, if you have any topic, suggestions, recommendations for upcoming live sessions, do let me know. I'd love to talk about things that interest you, obviously that's why I'm here. So do let me know if you have any suggestions and if you still have a question, I'm gonna take a sip of my coffee while you think about your last question. Anybody who will be the last one for today? Pressure or maybe you're all happy, happy with what I was talking about and it all made sense. That's obviously also a compliment. So I appreciate that as well. Yeah and like I said, please like and subscribe as usual. Come back again next week. And Brett, you are also my friend. Love seeing you. If you ever come to Korea, let me know. I'm gonna buy you some barbecue. Who knows? You might also end up in Asia. I love Asia. I think you would too. But I'm biased. I'm probably too biased. So yeah. I think that's it. It's on, yeah, it's on. And wherever you are, I'm gonna go there and then you can also buy me whatever local food they have. Sounds good. Cool. Yeah, Juliana says bibimbap is the nice one. Yeah, I love bibimbap. Bibimbap is something I can eat all the time. It's a Korean dish. It's basically rice and vegetables and then you all mix it up together. It's so healthy. It's so good. There's so many different types of seasonal veggies that go in. You can also have some with meat. My favorite is called yukhoe bibimbap which is the raw meat, raw beef bibimbap. So it's kind of like beef tartare mixed with veggies and rice and like a chili paste sauce. It's so good to die for. I might actually order this for lunch now. I'm getting hungry. That's a good idea. Thanks, Juliana. You might've saved my lunch. Awesome. Cool, all right. Thank you guys for watching. I guess there's no more questions for today and with all the food talk, I'm getting kind of hungry. So I think I need to sign off now but thank you guys for having this chat with me for your questions, for your patience, for your support. I really appreciate it. And like I said, if you ever have any questions outside of this environment or you're just not comfortable asking in front of all the other people here, reach out to me here on Instagram and just DM me if you have any questions about something particular. You don't wanna say it in here. That's totally fine. Reach out, connect with me. I'd love to make new friends. So yeah, I'd love to come to Morocco. Absolutely, that'd be so cool. Thank you, Adam. Thank you for your time, guys. I really appreciate it, especially in Morocco. It's like 4 a.m., that's amazing. So thank you guys so much for watching and I hope to see you again next week. You guys take care. You're all my friends. I always say we are Tefl friends. We're a Tefl family. So I hope to see you all again next week. If you have time, no pressure of course and yeah, if you're interested in Tefl, take advantage of this 30% off here. Don't be shy. Now is a great time to get started and to live your dream, move abroad and teach or change, quit your job and quit the nine to five and work online as a teacher. So many possibilities with Tefl totally changed my life. So I hope I'm able to inspire you guys a little bit at least. Yes, have a nice weekend as well and yeah, I hope to see you all again next week and I'm signing out. Thank you guys. Bye-bye.