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Teaching English in China..

  • 27-04-2007 1:43pm
    #1
    notmeagain
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46 ✭


    I graduate next month and I've been thinking of heading to China in September to teach English. Just wondering if anyone else has done this or if they would have any city or potential employer to reccomend??

    Thanks/


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  • #2
    rivers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 152 ✭✭rivers


    hey there.
    yea im in china at the moment. Im in a city in the north of china (Dongbei) called Dalian. its about 10hours train ride from beijing around the coast on a little peninsula.
    im teaching in a university and studying at a different university.
    so whether you come or not depends on what you want really. what are your expectations? As im sure you know, China is alot different from Europe, and it can take a bit of getting used to. I know some people who couldnt hack it and returned home within a month...I've been here 9 months now and have no regrets. Some of the habits/customs of the locals can be extremely annoying but that comes with the territory.
    if you want to come here to teach, what are you looking for? Do you really want to work hard (teach professionallu?) or have it as just something to pay the bills and leave you alot of free time to study/relax? If its the latter i would definitely go for a university job. the hours are generally much less then a private school and less pressure. also in my experience universities are much safer and straight-forward contractually-wise. i've heard alot of stories of private schools treating their teachers like crap and sometimes not honouring contracts, or finding any hole in it to screw the teacher...so be careful...
    China is a massive country with vastly different weather, culture and language. Mandarin chinese is the official and most commonly spoken language (80+% of the country). Cantonese is the 2nd most popular and is just spoken in some parts of the south and also Hong Kong. Weather down south is extremely hot in summers and not too cold in winters...especially far south (lovely winters). far north is cold all year round, while dalian has very cold winters but great summers. Colder and hotter then ireland....
    choosing a city where to study is a large task, you have to consider, language (nobody speaks much english in china), food (southern cuisine is v. spicy), climate, expense (bigger cities more expensive), amount of foreigners (beijing, shanghai have lots of foreigners).
    so the question is what are you looking for?


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