 from ITTT back this week with another live session and very exciting today. It is the first day of a new month. It is finally September. So that means we are doing a live Tefal TESOL Q&A. So you can ask me your questions today and I'll do my best and try to answer them. All things related to teaching English abroad, online, Tefal TESOL courses, everything in between, all of that good stuff. So first off, don't forget to like and subscribe. As always, we do these live sessions weekly on a weekly basis. So if you like and subscribe, you're always notified and updated and you never miss any of our upcoming live sessions and they are free and anyone can join even if you have a, if you don't have a Tefal TESOL certificate yet or you're just thinking about it, wherever you are in your teaching English journey, you can join us. And also we do have a 30% off opportunity today as well for your Tefal TESOL course. Any Tefal TESOL course from ITTT, you can have a 30% discount and we only share this discount during our live session. So that's very, very special. But what you can do is you can scan this QR code right here or I also have a link for you. I'm going to share that in the comments right now so you can save it. You can go through all the course options and once you're ready and you know what kind of course you want to take, you can just use Slink and apply and pay via this link so you make sure you get 30% off. When you click on it, so it looks like this, it ends with FB live minus Linna and when you click on it, you see something like congratulations, you qualify for 30% off or something like that so you know it is the correct link and you get 30% off. So anyway, first off, hi Sam. I'm doing very well. How are you? Thank you. First off, I do want to know where are you watching from today? I always ask, that's always my first question in every live session if you watched before you know. But yeah, let me know where are you watching from today? Where are you right now? Country, city, whatever you want to share and also what time it is. What time it is there because I'm in Germany and so it is 2pm Friday, September 1st. So happy Friday and happy September everybody. All right, we have somebody watching from Algeria. Cool. How are you doing? Sam says, I'm good. Thank you. How's Germany? Germany is great. The weather is improving. We had a bit of a stormy or rainy and cold week but it is finally warming up so we have some late summer weather. I'm very excited about that so perfect for the weekend now and next week is supposed to be very good too. So excited for that. Sam, remind me where are you watching from? Was it the UK? I think? Let me know if I remember correctly and it is 1pm in Algeria. Okay, so there's a one hour time difference. It's 2pm in Germany and then 1pm in Algeria. Interesting. All right, thanks for joining. Cool and so yeah, I'm going to give it a couple more seconds to see if someone is joining and wants to say where they're watching from but anyway what we're doing today is like I said a Q&A. Everything, so it's all about you. It's all about you and hopefully you have some good questions for me today related to TEFL, what TEFL course to take or you know for your specific case, give me some background, where you're from, what you want to do, where you want to go teach and maybe I can help and figure out what place is good, what country or what opportunities you have, all of that. So all of this, that's what we're going to talk about today. It's a very flexible, Sam says, not the UK, sorry you want to try to guess again. I thought it was in Europe, I think. What was it? And an English speaking country, right Sam? Is it Ireland maybe? Something like that? You need to tell me. Let me know. And then we can dive into our Q&A so you can ask me your questions about what I said, TEFL, TESOL, teaching English abroad online, all of that good stuff. Actually I didn't do my intro yet so I'm going to do that first while we're getting some people in and then you can think of some questions. So my name is Linda. I am a language teacher but I'm also a travel writer, content creator amongst many different things. Under the name Linda goes East. So I have my own personal website, lindegoseast.com and I'm also very active on social media, especially Instagram. I love to share pictures and reels about my travels and my life abroad. I'm originally from Germany slash the US and I am in Germany right now but normally I'm actually based in South Korea. I'm only here for summer break so I've been in South Korea for over eight years already and before that I actually lived in China for a little bit so I spent a lot of time in Asia, particularly East Asia and I've traveled all around Asia, Southeast Asia, all different parts and so if you're interested in that part of the world for travel or also for teaching you can check out lindegoseast.com and find some good information over there. Then the other side here, I am also a Tefl and TESOL marketing professional also because I lived in China and also in South Korea. English teaching is very, very big in both of those countries and I started out in China and then once I knew I wanted to move over to Korea I decided to get Tefl TESOL certified and I found ITTT. I was just doing a google search and ITTT popped up and I read the reviews, I looked at the website, all of that, all of what you've done probably as well and I liked it and I reached out to ITTT if we could work together because I did have my website already and I was helping already a lot of people to move to Asia so if we could do something together and that's how I kind of started working for ITTT and now I'm a full time, I've been a full-time employee for I think also eight years, honestly we're seven years, eight years, something like that, a very long time. So and ITTT if you don't know stands for International Tefl and TESOL Training and our website is TeflCourse.net. If you go on there you can find obviously a plethora of information about Tefl courses, TESOL courses, teaching English abroad, all the different countries, whatever country you're interested in you're going to find information on there and yeah ITTT has been around since the 1990s so we are a leading Tefl and TESOL course provider worldwide. Our courses, certificates are accepted around the world and we also have in-class courses in different training centers all around the world so do check that out and yeah like I said earlier we do have our 30% off opportunity as well so you can scan this QR code right here or if you check in the in the comment box again this is the link it ends with fb live minus linda and this will get you 30% off any Tefl or TESOL course today so do save that and then Sam says uh it's not an English speaking country where he's from it's actually um from Asia so are you in Asia or you're from Asia or both um I have no idea let me know Sam where are you from very curious maybe I've been there before I've been to a lot of countries in Asia so maybe maybe I've been there too so and yeah today is all about you guys what I already said so you can ask your questions today about Tefl TESOL but ITTT if you're not sure yet which course to take perhaps I'm here for you today to kind of answer your question maybe help you with that decision so that's what we're going to do today so don't be shy use the comment box to type your questions and then we can jump right in and answering some of them okay Sam says I'm from India okay I've not been to India yet I'm very sad about it I really really want to go to India um and I hope one day I'll be able to go that's definitely on my list so okay cool what part of India what part of India do you live in cool and are you interested in teaching English abroad Sam what country would you like to teach in you can let us know and that goes for everybody let us know and again also if you just joined let us know where you're watching from today where are you from what country are you in and again just your questions let's have a chat a casual Tefl TESOL Q&A chat I'm here for that so all right with Islam alush I'm asking actually I want to know how to improve and develop teaching skills okay great um well for that I would need to know kind of what your background is so are you already Tefl or TESOL certified if not of course taking a Tefl or a TESOL course would be the best way to improve and develop teaching skills a Tefl so of course teaches you exactly everything you need to know to teach all the methodologies all the all the little techniques and everything also lesson planning how to really plan out your lessons and have a successful lesson every time all of these things so of course taking a Tefl course would be number one what I would say but if you already have one you still want to improve um you could number two for example take specialized Tefl TESOL courses so for example if you already have the let's say the 120 hour standard Tefl course 120 hours is the the basic standard course that you should get if you're interested in teaching English professionally and so if you have that you could on top of that add on some specializations for example the teaching English to young learners course which focuses on teaching children so it goes a lot in depth that kind of particular field and also we have one for teaching business English which is the same it goes in depth in that particular field so business English so that could also improve and develop your teaching skills um yeah so there you go you don't have a Tefl or TESOL course yet so that would be the first thing that you could do um you're an English student in university and that's what I always say as well also for native English speakers just because you're good in English you can speak English you know the grammar and everything that's great or maybe you are a native English speaker perfect great but it doesn't mean that you can actually teach the language right so a Tefl or a TESOL course would really help you with that and that's what a Tefl or TESOL course is for basically um here I can show you that so what is a Tefl certificate um and that's it kind of goes ahead hand in hand so a Tefl or TESOL certificate is basically two things here on the left side it's you can see it's a required certification okay it's a required certification to teach in many countries for example in China South Korea many other Vietnam I believe Thailand many of these places they need you to have a Tefl or a TESOL certificate or else you won't be able to go and teach there it's a requirement oftentimes related to the work visa especially in China for example if you don't have a Tefl certificate of at least 120 hours you won't be able to get a work visa in China for example so a Tefl certificate certificate is that it's just a piece of paper that certifies you and that allows you to go to teach but on the other hand it um this would be the learn teaching skills side um it's for you and also for your students because a Tefl or TESOL certification course teaches you how to teach right you will learn all the teaching theories methodologies and techniques um it focuses on classroom management as well how to deal with disruptive students different kinds of students they need different kinds of classroom management so it goes in depth in that and then we have lesson planning what I mentioned earlier how to plan your lesson and how to have kind of a effective lesson every time that's also very important and then also a Tefl certification course also focuses on evaluation and testing how to test your students regularly progress tests and all of these things and then also equipment and teaching aids what you can use just besides a boring textbook for example and then also we focus on English grammar a lot so there are English grammar units in a Tefl certification course but they focus on kind of from the other point of view so um from the point of view of the students what kind of English grammar topics do the students have the most problems with and how you as a teacher how can you effectively um bring across these English grammar topics that's basically what it does so that's two things right Tefl certificate one it is this piece of paper that you need sometimes to go and teach abroad but it's also so much more than that it's really your yeah your teaching knowledge your teaching skills and that together is just a very powerful combination for you and then for your opportunities so that's why I would say definitely take a Tefl course if you want to know how to teach and you don't have one yet Nazreen hi how are you doing Nazreen says I want to teach in the United States of America in the USA yeah there are a lot of TESOL teachers actually working in America I have a friend who's doing that so her students are uh she teaches children coming from families who are not from the United States who are not speaking English at home as a native language and she's teaching these kids so there are also a lot of positions there in America for TESOL as well and then we have Lino's academic center here hi how are you doing Lino from Angola cool how are you doing what time is it there might be similar 2 p.m. afternoon time right cool all right Sam says I'd love to work in Japan or Korea to be honest also I did start teaching English already okay cool are you teaching online are you teaching in class how are you teaching cool and actually at Japan or Korea are both really really good options they're very similar as well Japan is good because it does not have this um regulation that you need to be from one of seven English speaking countries so they don't care about your nationality they really look at your English skills and your English level and then they let you teach there as well whereas Korea most teachers who teach in Korea they work under the E2 teaching visa English teacher visa and in order to get this English teacher visa you need to be from one of seven countries only which is Canada the United States Ireland the UK South Africa Australia and New Zealand I think that's all of them is that seven so seven those seven countries however for Indian citizens they do have sort of a loophole or extra clause if you are an Indian citizen you fulfill all of the other requirements and you have an Indian teaching license you can also apply to the EPIC program for example the EPIC program is a very big popular government program one of those government funded programs for teaching you can see down here EPIC in South Korea so they have this extra clause that also allows Indian citizens to apply if you have a license a teaching license from India so that's really good might be an option for you and as you can see there are a lot of other English teaching government funded programs as well and these are programs that the governments of different countries have established and they fund them and they want English teachers to come to a lot of times public schools in their country and they place them and they're usually pretty good they have good contracts good pay good pay vacation days they're usually very well organized these programs and a lot of people really like to get into these however you don't have to if you want to teach English abroad you don't have to join one of these programs you can also do it on your own or just do it through a private academy that's actually much more well it depends on where but it's I think more common not to go through a program like this depends on the country but it's an option and as you can see there's a lot of programs like this there's one more slide Hong Kong the next game is very popular sites program in Italy TLG in Georgia the tape of program in France there's a lot of programs you could choose from I guess Sam says I teach in person classes taught grammar business communication and even IELTS yeah IELTS any kind of test prep is also very sought after a very good skill to have a lot of private language academies are looking for teachers who can do test prep for IELTS or Cambridge certificates or TOEIC or TOEFL all these things hi we have Jing here hi watching from the Philippines happy to have completed my 130 Albert course recently congratulations how did you like the course what's your next step now what do you want to do after that Jing you want to teach English online I think that's a very big market in in the Philippines I see this a lot on Facebook groups there are a lot of groups specifically looking for Filipino online English teachers so that's a very big thing so I wonder if you're looking into that or if you want to teach English abroad in a different country let us know what your plan is Jing Sam says to get a teaching license here you need to have a bachelor's of education then clear a national exam as far as I know yeah I don't think it's that easy right but that's their requirement definitely not easy but that's one of the requirements so if you do have that then you can also get an e2 visa in Korea so but I think also these things are changing a lot we talk about this actually a lot in our live sessions how these seven native English speaking countries are just it's not very 2023 it's kind of outdated to think that only people from these seven countries are native English speakers it's just not very current anymore and we do see a trend that countries are kind of changing that and they are becoming more open towards all other nationalities as well so I think it's just a matter of time but that's just how it is still in a lot of countries unfortunately but if you're a non-native English speaker you can still teach in a lot of other countries as well just maybe not Korea or you know these countries that have this requirement but it's not impossible so it's just a handful of countries who do have this requirement cool yeah maybe then while we're talking about requirements what are some other typical requirements for English teachers abroad let's go over those so they again there's no just not just one answer for every country really varies from place to place from country to country but even from city to city and school to school so there's not just one answer but there's many many answers a lot of times you will need to have at least a bachelor's degree but it doesn't have to be in the field of education so it could be any bachelor's degree for example my case my bachelor's degree is in management and that is still okay that's cool that's allowed so it doesn't have to be in English or in in education or anything like that and also there are a lot of places where you can teach English without having a degree as well however if you have a degree a bachelor's degree it's easier to find it you have more options more countries but if you don't have one you still have opportunities as well teaching experience is sometimes required but actually most of the time especially in places like Asia where I have taught and know a lot of expats and teachers most of them honestly don't have any teaching experience before they come they're really a lot of times fresh college graduates but some are also older and they come from a different career and they want to change some also do have experience but it is not usually needed or the norm then you need to be a native or mere non what does it say native or non-native English speakers both can be English teachers abroad of course like we just said if you are a native English speaker you do have more opportunities right a lot of people they prefer hiring or a lot of schools do prefer hiring native English speakers but there are also a lot of places where that's not the case and they really only look at your English skills and certificates so anyone is welcome a very important thing what you need to have if you want to teach English abroad is adaptability you need to be able to adapt to a new country a new culture all those things because that's also something we talked about last time but the worst thing that could happen for to a English language school is they hire you they go through all the hassle all the process they spend a lot of money hiring somebody from abroad they pay for your flight they pay for everything and then turns out you can't adapt to the culture you have a culture shock you don't like it and then you just leave and quit the job and then they lose all that money so that's the worst thing that could happen to them and that's what they want to avoid so that's also something in your interview in your taffle resume that you need to showcase that you're maybe well traveled or you speak other languages you are you can adapt to other cultures basically and then again same kind of similar kind of thing eagerness to learn new things as well so they want somebody who yeah is open minded and eager to learn new things so these are typical requirements for teaching English hi crystalline that's all right stupid auto correct that's fine oh crystalline is dying at work oh no what happened hope you're doing okay thanks for joining so yeah that's usually the requirements but again they there's no one set of requirement for all countries and places they vary from place to place so make sure you do a lot of research like what you're doing right now you're here you're listening you're watching this you know do a lot of research before you apply so you know exactly where you can apply i'm sure everybody has kind of countries or places that they are interesting going and then once you have those you can research what are the requirements in this particular country do i fulfill them is this an option and then you go from there all right yep so don't be shy guys ask me your questions that's what i'm here for today so anything you want to know about taffle t-sol teaching English abroad um i always have to giggle this crystalline and sam the chat it's hilarious but everybody else don't be shy leave your comments we do we are actually live on youtube and facebook at the same time so i see a lot of people are watching over on youtube a lot of people are also over here on facebook so don't be shy ask your questions there are no stupid questions i always say that so let me pull that back up the q and a thing so ask me your questions okay jinx's plan to apply abroad and at the same time get another course for it awesome which course are you thinking of getting one of the specialized ones business english teaching online teaching young learners or the diploma which one are you thinking about yeah it's vietnam a good place to teach yes vietnam is actually very much in demand or i should say english teachers are very much in demand in vietnam so you could i also have a friend who lives in vietnam i know a lot of people who um are or have been teaching english or taught before in vietnam and they really love it um so yes vietnam is a good place to teach and if you've ever been it's an amazing country for traveling as well there's so many amazing places to go and things see and do um for sure if you go to teffelcourts.net and then you let's see we have a whole of the FAQ well i guess it's teffelcourts.net and slash FAQ there's a lot of content about vietnam so you should check it out here it also says vietnam is one of the hottest destinations in asia for teaching english abroad right now as demand is growing fast and salaries are steadily rising that's very good because a lot of countries even like japan korea the salaries are not rising they have remained the same for several years for english teachers but vietnam they're rising so yep you should not have any problems finding a well-paid position there because the demand is also so big and then the demand for teachers is vast all around the country so it's not hard to find a job that's what it says so go to teffelcourts.net FAQ and then you can find vietnam there's so much content here who are the main employers of english teachers in vietnam for example private language schools employ the vast majority of teachers in vietnam there are hundreds of these throughout the country with the greatest concentration in the two largest cities hojimin city and hanoi some offer general english classes for adults or young learners while others specialize in english for specific purposes such as test preparation business english and english for tourism there are also a limited number of job opportunities in english speaking universities and public schools but prior experience is usually required for these positions so yeah most of the time you're going to be working in private language schools in vietnam so but yeah vietnam is really good especially to go right now the demand is really good hi neil hi linda from the uk hi neil how are you doing thanks for joining we are doing a live teffel t-cell q and a session i'm still going to be on for a couple more minutes so now is your perfect the perfect time to ask your questions about teffel t-cell teaching english abroad or online whatever you want to know to get started perhaps or to um to advance in the career if you're already teaching or if you're not sure if teaching english is the right next step for you if you already have a career but you're not sure if this is worth it giving it up or if you're struggling with where to teach you don't you're not quite sure which countries are good anything like that let me know or you're not quite sure which course to take let me know i might be able to help maybe okay sam says hey linda what should you do if you want to teach english at the university level so being english teacher at a university good i do also know a lot of people or some people not a lot of people because it teaching at a university is um dependent in most countries not the usual um destination for english teachers right it's more rare the positions are fewer and it's more competitive so most of the time that's from my experience in say china and korea japan these places you will need to have at least some a couple of years of teaching experience i believe the lowest would be probably two years um but more like four or five years of teaching experience what they want before um and then a lot of universities they also want you to have a master's degree at least there are some smaller universities where a bachelor's degree is also enough however most positions a job offers that you see for universities they do want people with master's degrees preferably in english in tesol in education and yeah those are like the two biggest things the teaching experience and like a master's degree so that would be that for teaching english at a university level and usually these positions you kind of have to network to kind of hear about a lot of times so for example me i used to i have a friend who actually teaches at a university um and she kind of got into that because she also knew somebody who was doing that job and then that that person left and then they he asked her because she was a suitable candidate if she would like to take that over it's kind of networking a lot as well but you can also find these online but yeah at least a master's degree um in many cases would be preferred for that okay we have anushka here who said how about australia what course you would recommend for teaching english in australia okay good so australia is actually not one of the uh countries with a big demand for english teachers qualified for also foreign english teachers a lot of times they would be these positions would be filled by local australian teachers so i actually cannot comment on that too much i think it would be more difficult to find a teaching position in australia if you're not already in australia and you're australian citizen and teacher perhaps if you're coming in from abroad from somewhere different it might be um more challenging i'm not quite sure this is really not one of the markets that we kind of see a big demand for so yeah okay neil says is epic a good route to go if i'm interested in south korea or is it just as good to look at vacancies normal way without an epic type route yeah this is kind of a very age old um debate you know epic versus private language schools they're pros and cons on either side and it depends on what you prefer and a lot of people are doing both they start out doing epic for a year or two and then they change over to private or the other way around um so epic is then you're a public school teacher through epic the salary is usually a little bit lower actually than the private school teachers however you do have more paid vacation days in general i believe you have like 18 which is quite a lot for an english teacher in korea normally for private schools you probably only have 10 five in the summer five in the winter so you're really how it is plus um any um like public holidays of course but like just paid vacation days um so in that sense epic is a little bit better however the salary in private schools is higher and epic a lot of times with epic you can't choose where you go you can only put in when in the application your preference your preference is soul or your preferences i believe you can even only choose like the province um and even then doesn't mean that they actually care about your preference so you might end up in the middle of nowhere which is also fun i have a lot of people who are teaching in more rural areas smaller smaller cities really rural but they do also really like it i also had a friend who was doing epic and she was um kind of in my city but also the rural area of my city so outside and she actually was a teacher at i think three different schools through epic so she it would be like monday tuesday she's at that school and then wednesday thursday and different school and on friday she goes to the third school so this can also happen with epic whereas with a private school you can pick exactly where you want to go and you know you're now you know yeah that's what i would say so it depends on what's more important to you neil okay ness rain that's a very good question for doing a t-sol course what level of english speaking is required or just what level of english maybe in general is required so you need to be fluent in english if you go to tefalcourse.net and you read the website and you understand all of that then you're good that's kind of how you can test we do not ask you to provide any english proficiency certifications or anything like that we trust that only people who are fluent in english apply because if you're not fluent in english you don't understand the units the the course content um you only hurt yourself right so if you go to tefalcourse.net to our website you read through it and you understand most of that then you should be good okay and then another question here from ness rain online certification or in class which one is better again kind of depends on you and your own preferences and maybe also how what kind of study type you are and also your budget okay so online certifications and in class both result in the same certificate when you take an online tefalteesol course your certificate at the end does not say anything about online it's the same certificate so that's the that's the one thing what you do have with an in-class course you do have active teaching practice when you go to the training center um an in-class course typically takes four weeks so you are there monday to friday for four weeks one whole month in a training center and you also have actual teaching practice with local students there as well so you get that with an online course you don't have that so that's a bonus however an in-class course a it takes more time or more time commitment i suppose because you have to go and be there at this training center for a month right and not everybody can leave their own country for a month right so online course you can work at your own time you have up to six months to complete it there are 20 units you can take more time um also in class is more expensive usually over a thousand dollars depending on the course location they all vary but around that and then you also have to pay for accommodation so you have to pay for your own hostel hotel share department whatever you want and that also adds up depending on where you go and so it's a lot more expensive online courses are cheaper and again the certificate is the same you learn the same except for in class you do have that active teaching practice as well so it's your decision but online courses are just as accepted so then anushka says thank you very much what about dubai what course you would recommend for teaching english in dubai sure so the middle east um is a good region to teach they oftentimes have the highest salaries um the highest salaries in the world the middle east in a lot of countries they also have tax-free english teaching salaries so you don't pay any income tax or anything on that which is great you can save a lot of money however with that also comes more uh stricter requirements so a lot of times they also want people with teaching experience maybe two years of teaching experience um the more qualifications the better sometimes even a master's degree depends on the school but at least teaching experience is what they want at least a bachelor's degree um if you are a non-native english speaker uh english proficiency certifications all of that is what they want but dubai is a great city to teach in lots of very multicultural lots of expats living there and a lot of english teachers as well okay yeah a lot of times what sense is a lot of times they want five years of teaching experience minimum so what a lot of people are doing for the middle east for dubai and other countries in the middle east um a lot of people they um go and teach english abroad somewhere else first so for example in asia have some people who i know that started out teaching english in china or in korea a couple years two years in china three years in korea and so on and then they moved over to the middle east they have their five years experience and then they found a position in the middle east as well so yeah good question maybe while we're talking about here the slide where is the demand um so yeah the biggest demand for english teachers you can really find a position all over the world of course but the places with the highest demand number one is asia that's been like that for a long time china korea japan also taiwan um thailand vietnam cambodia laos all those places more and more also me on mar see a lot of me and mar positions as well so those are very popular destinations and then like we just talked about the middle east for the attractive benefits and salary but the um the requirements are stricter um we have europe where you can also find teaching positions but they usually prefer people who already have a work permit or are from other eu countries and then um latin america but salaries are quite low in latin america so we don't expect to earn a fortune there or be able to save a lot of money when you go to latin america but the demand is very high in latin america so all right sam says which age group has been the most fun for you to teach we talk in kindergarten level young kids or more elementary school or maybe this is for crystalline to be honest but um yeah so i did teach i taught students the youngest that i had i think it's two years old and then the oldest this maybe 70 years old honestly so really everything kids really little kids then i taught kindergarten for a whole year also with elementary school in the afternoon um and then now i teach a lot of adults actually but i also taught high schoolers university students um of course i really liked i loved my time with the kindergartners that was very sweet and they were like i saw the same kids every day they were like my kids um so i really really like that um and they're so eager to learn they're very it's very easy to excite them to learn something um so that's good but i also really enjoy teaching adults because they're usually also eager and motivated because they pay for the course um and they're here because they want to learn so i also enjoy that um so i really enjoy everything um maybe the middle age like not middle age like the middle school age that kind of age is not what i would pick they sometimes get naughty and it's hard to but you have naughty kids and good kids and every level or students i guess but it's a hard question neil says is it beneficial to learn basic korean also did you do this before you went to korea yeah actually i did learn some korean before i moved to korea um but also because i really liked learning languages it's one of my passions one of my hobbies is learning languages so i wanted to learn korean before i went to just know at least a little bit um depending on where you are in korea like when i go to Seoul kind of everyone only speaks english to me in Seoul people in restaurants and cafes um and they're usually surprised when i respond in korean however outside of Seoul other smaller cities you will is not that english friendly you will find a lot of people who can't speak english or most of the time they're just too shy to be honest they don't want to make mistakes um so they avoid speaking english so i would definitely recommend if you if you're sure you want to go to korea you can or should you know learn a little bit before you go it will really really help you and it also just makes a very good impression with the locals if you know how to say please and thank you and those things um it goes a long way and they're also typically every city where you will might be teaching you know there's expat community and they have language exchanges um the locals they usually are very eager to speak with um english speakers um there'd be english like foreign areas where a lot of koreans will go to talk to english speakers there'd be languages exchanges and a lot of korean um language courses is well offered for foreigners so a lot of opportunities there as well emilia says hi linda hope you're doing well i'm doing well thank you how are you emilia oh crystalline says linda what is your favorite memory of teaching i have so many memories um of teaching and you know fond memories and it's just like the when you teach something and you know after a while you see the students who struggled who didn't speak a word in the beginning then they finally make that whole sentence even if it's not perfect but they say a whole sentence in english so that's usually my favorite memory or thing when i see my students improve and it's just great it's a great feeling so all right good very good um yeah well we are almost 50 minutes in so okay emilia has a question i was going to say final question but do you know what's the process to get my english proficiency certificate legalized i have a c1 and an aisles that i took both in spain oh i've actually i don't think i've ever heard that legalizing your english proficiency certificate what did somebody say you need to do that for for vietnam is that for vietnam interesting i know vietnam they want to legalize like everything right they need this okay interesting i would probably contact the probably official aisles people um i'm sure they have official websites if you go to aisles and then there might be like a contact or like where you can call them interesting i've never heard of legalizing a language proficiency certificate before because usually they already have stamps on them and signatures and things so i'm actually don't i'm not sure but i would just contact them directly a c1 so that's cambridge would contact them and then the aisles people i would contact them as well or have you tried googling that i honestly don't know interesting aisles and tefl are only valid for two years yes that's a good point and then legalizing but i think um emilia wants to go to vietnam and i hear that they are very into legalizing they also want legalized tefl certificates and things like that but interesting yeah i've never heard of that i need to google that too that's a good interesting didn't know that okay all right then now is everybody's final chance to ask me a question and then i'm going to say goodbye but this was fun again lots of good comments feedback questions i really like our community so i really appreciate everybody watching again this week i think it was very interesting a lot of good stuff even i learned new things about legalizing proficiency tests very good all right neil thank you have a great weekend as well thanks for as well thanks for your questions all right well i think i'm going to say goodbye then if you if somebody leaves a question after i sign off it will be answered by somebody from ittts so don't be shy even if you're watching this as a replay and as always our our um live sessions they remain in our playlist you can rewatch so okay final question here how many languages do you speak linda also how long did it take to learn korean so i am still learning korean i think there is no end right i'm not fluent like i'm not um what is it um uh like a native speaker i'm not at all like that um but i can get by and i understand a lot but korean is very hard it's the hardest language i've learned i think and i've learned a lot of languages so i actually started out i speak german and english and then french was the first language like that i learned in school and then spanish and then i wanted something i wanted to try something totally different and i learned mandarin chinese which is so much fun and then yeah after that korean and this year i also started japanese a little bit but just a little bit for a trip so nothing too serious yet but um yeah so those are the languages that i have learned and still learning to the state to be honest all right good thank you so much everybody for joining and i hope you have fun and then i wish everybody a wonderful weekend and i hope to see you all again next week when i'll be back with another topic and if you have any topic suggestions you can also leave them 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