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teaching english in china?
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anyone done this? i think it would be cool to do once i get my degree.


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Re: teaching english in china? [Re: fiasco]
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Great field to get into.

My cousin teaches English in Taiwan and he makes bank.

But from what I hear, from my family members in China, Standard Edited American English is less preferred than British English. But I think that that's only the case in Mainland China.


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Re: teaching english in china? [Re: meatcakeman]
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bravo on the avatar mate

meatcakeman said:
But from what I hear, from my family members in China, Standard Edited American English is less preferred than British English. But I think that that's only the case in Mainland China.


yeah that figures, but i'm not to worried about my Standard Edited American English. living in china for a year or two would be awesome


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Re: teaching english in china? [Re: fiasco]
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Haha. I don't know...

China is still a Communist nation and sketchy, fucked up shit goes down there.

Plus side: No drinking age!


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Re: teaching english in china? [Re: meatcakeman]
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yeah i remember seeing a british girl, on the news, who went there to teach and got killed.


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Re: teaching english in china? [Re: fiasco]
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While i was there, a local gang was going around into public bathrooms, injecting anesthetics into peoples ankles from under the stall walls, and then totally stripping them of all their organs.


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Re: teaching english in china? [Re: meatcakeman]
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meatcakeman said:
While i was there, a local gang was going around into public bathrooms, injecting anesthetics into peoples ankles from under the stall walls, and then totally stripping them of all their organs.



WTF?


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Re: teaching english in china? [Re: meatcakeman]
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woah shit. thats rough


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Re: teaching english in china? [Re: derx]
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My brother used to teach English in China...
he still lives there.
He's a weatherman on TV there


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Re: teaching english in china? [Re: meatcakeman]
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If I was rich I would pay 50k for a fried kidney. :lol:

But yea I have a friend who wants to go live in China. He visited and loved it.

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Re: teaching english in china? [Re: boxcarguy07]
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boxcarguy07 said:
My brother used to teach English in China...
he still lives there.
He's a weatherman on TV there


No way!
For CCTV?


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Re: teaching english in china? [Re: boxcarguy07]
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boxcarguy07 said:
My brother used to teach English in China...
he still lives there.
He's a weatherman on TV there


did he go with a program from his school or a private org? if you don't mind me asking.


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Re: teaching english in china? [Re: meatcakeman]
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yeah man!


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Re: teaching english in china? [Re: fiasco]
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fiasco said:
boxcarguy07 said:
My brother used to teach English in China...
he still lives there.
He's a weatherman on TV there


did he go with a program from his school or a private org? if you don't mind me asking.


He went over there pretty much on a whim... he was dating a girl from China here in America, and her Visa ran out so she had to go back to China, and he went with her.

Can't say exactly how he got the teaching gig.


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Re: teaching english in china? [Re: boxcarguy07]
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Haha that's funny. I've probably seen him on TV then.
What's even more weird is that my friend's father owns CCTV...

Small world.


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Re: teaching english in china? [Re: meatcakeman]
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Haha that's funny...
do you recall seeing a guy that kind of resembles Peewee Herman?


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Re: teaching english in china? [Re: boxcarguy07]
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YES!!!!!!


wow..
I need to tell my mom. She watches CCTV every god damn day.


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Re: teaching english in china? [Re: boxcarguy07]
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hey i was watching cctv last night!


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Re: teaching english in china? [Re: fiasco]
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Haha that's wild, you guys!


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Re: teaching english in china? [Re: boxcarguy07]
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small world!


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Re: teaching english in china? [Re: derx]
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derx said:
meatcakeman said:
While i was there, a local gang was going around into public bathrooms, injecting anesthetics into peoples ankles from under the stall walls, and then totally stripping them of all their organs.



WTF?



it's bullshit, a twist on an urban legend about a guy
waking up after drinking with some chick, he wakes up in
a tub full of ice and discoveres his kidney had been
stolen for sale on the black market


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Re: teaching english in china? [Re: Prisoner#1]
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Prisoner#1 said:
derx said:
meatcakeman said:
While i was there, a local gang was going around into public bathrooms, injecting anesthetics into peoples ankles from under the stall walls, and then totally stripping them of all their organs.



WTF?



it's bullshit, a twist on an urban legend about a guy
waking up after drinking with some chick, he wakes up in
a tub full of ice and discoveres his kidney had been
stolen for sale on the black market


Yeah... except i used to LIVE in China. AND I am a Citizen of China.... and I watched it on the news....

but i mean
don't listen to me

i'm just meatcakeman


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Re: teaching english in china? [Re: Prisoner#1]
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sigh of relief


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Re: teaching english in china? [Re: Prisoner#1]
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I know someone who's teaching English in China right now. If you want to go to a city (she's in Lijiang right now) you need a degree, preferably in an English-related field. But as go closer to Mongolia, or in any other less populated areas, a high school diploma is usually good enough. And in my friend's case, all you really need is a half-completed music degree at a community college and some photoshop skills. :lol: Also, they rarely check references except at the biggest, most commercial schools.

The cost of living is low, especially as many schools provide housing, but some basic items (like chips) can cost $5-10 depending on availability, so you need to be careful not to blow all your cash on American food. If you're eating like the locals though, no worries--groceries and restaurants are dirt cheap, and the quality is usually very good.

You also want to be careful with DVDs--the black market produces most of the DVDs sold there (even if they look professional) and the penalties for being caught with illegal DVDs are harsh. If you buy a movie from a street vendor there's a good chance it was filmed by hand in a movie theater, so the quality will be shit, and you might get some bonus features like people walking in front of the screen or talking.:tongue2:

OP, if you'd like to hear more from someone who's been doing it for a couple of years, PM me and I'll ask my friend if she'd mind talking to you about it more.


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Re: teaching english in china? [Re: mayfly]
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I taught English in HK.

No degree. Just walked in, was white and spoke like an American, was teaching class a half hour later. I am serious. I think the conversion only put me at 12US a hour. But it was probably the easiest job I have ever worked. The students already knew English so I was only really pointing out correct pronunciations. Each day I would just photocopy a couple articles from a British newpaper, and have each student read a paragraph while I corrected their mistakes along the way, and just go around the room with that. And the other half the time they just had questions about America. And teaching me about China.

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Re: teaching english in china? [Re: meatcakeman]
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meatcakeman said:
YES!!!!!!


wow..
I need to tell my mom. She watches CCTV every god damn day.


hey mom, so i was on the shroomery today.... lol


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Re: teaching english in china? [Re: fiasco]
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i was looking into doing that. it seems you need to spend around $1,000 on a TEFL (teach english as a foreign language) class, and pay for air fare then you're in. if you google TEFL you'll find all the info on it. there may be other ways of going about it, but that one and being sponsored by a company are the only ways i found when looking into it.


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