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Teaching English to Beginners in Japan - TEFL Blog
Wed, 25 Sep 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
Teaching English to Beginners in Japan
Japanese is certainly one of the most interesting languages in the world thanks to its three types of writing (hiragana, katakana and kanji).
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Main Challenges: Phonetic System
Main Challenges: Exposure to English
Main Challenges: Grammar
Main Challenges: Beginners
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Alumni TEFL Chat with Maddy & Georgia - Two Aussie Sisters Teaching English in Japan - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
Alumni TEFL Chat with Maddy & Georgia - Two Aussie Sisters Teaching English in Japan
07/08/2021
all right hi hey everyone hi as you can see it's not only me this
week welcome to our live stream we have guests today i'm super happy about it hi maddie hi
georgia hello hey so yeah back here another for another week and
i'm live on a different day i usually go live on fridays so today is very special
and also because we have guests so i'm super happy about that
and yeah if you are watching if you can see us if you can hear us please just leave a high in the comments that would
be really cool and where you're watching from i'm always really curious about where people are watching from
and um yeah i'm in south korea my name is linda from itt if you don't know me and i'm yeah
about an hour... [Read more]
From Taxi Driver to International Teacher - a Graduate’s Story - TEFL Blog
Wed, 10 Apr 2019 Mark Crocker
Alumni Experiences
From Taxi Driver to International Teacher - a Graduate’s Story
Many people may think that the worst part of being an Uber driver are the belligerent midnight trips from downtown to the suburbs or the aggressive pre-coffee commuters or the fact that a five-minute drive can take thirty minutes because of gridlock. However, as an Uber driver of one year, I believe that the worst part about the job are trips to the airport. When I interacted with passengers going to the airport, I would think of all the new things they would get to try and the different cultures they would learn about. The problem with these trips was they were a constant reminder that the world is just waiting for us to explore it, but I was stuck leading a... [Read more]
The Peak Hiring Seasons for Teaching English Abroad - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
The Peak Hiring Seasons for Teaching English Abroad
02/20/2023
hello welcome Linda here from ITT back
this week with another live session welcome welcome today we're going to talk about the top hiring seasons for
teaching English abroad so we're going to cover different regions Europe Asia
Latin America Central America um and different countries specifically
in these regions and the top hiring seasons for each of those countries so
you know exactly when to apply for the job for an English teaching job in the
country that you want to teach in so um a couple weeks ago we talked about
um tefl interviews and how to find jobs Etc so now this is kind of part of this
series and just to yeah give you an overview of the top hiring season so
that you know exactly when you should be applying for... [Read more]
Reasons To Take An English Level Test As A Non Native English Teacher - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
Reasons to Take an English Level Test as a Non-Native English Teacher
Hi everybody wherever you are right now. I'm in South Korea and it's 10 a.m. Friday, so good morning. I'm back here again today, my name is Linda from ITTT if you've been here before hi and if this is your first time watching thanks so much for tuning in and taking the time, we really appreciate it. If at any time during this live session you have any questions, feel free to drop your comments in the comment section from whichever platform you're watching from. We are streaming live on Facebook and on YouTube at the same time. If you can see me and hear me just leave a hi in the comment box, that would be highly appreciated so that I know that everything is working well.
For the first couple of minutes let's... [Read more]
The Best Countries for Solo Women to Teach English Abroad - TEFL Blog
Mon, 29 Mar 2021 Federico Riva
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The Best Countries for Solo Women to Teach English Abroad
Hi everybody wherever you are right now. I'm in South Korea and it's 10 a.m. Friday, so good morning. I'm back here again today, my name is Linda from ITTT if you've been here before hi and if this is your first time watching thanks so much for tuning in and taking the time, we really appreciate it. If at any time during this live session you have any questions, feel free to drop your comments in the comment section from whichever platform you're watching from. We are streaming live on Facebook and on YouTube at the same time. If you can see me and hear me just leave a hi in the comment box, that would be highly appreciated so that I know that... [Read more]
The Dos & Don'ts Of Teaching English Abroad - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
The Dos & Don'ts Of Teaching English Abroad
02/27/2023
hi guys hey Linda here from ITTT back
this week with another live session thank you so much for joining me today and taking some time out of your day
today to be here with me and learn something new hopefully about teaching English and today we're going to talk
about the do's and don'ts of teaching English abroad sort of everything you
need to know you should know before you embark on this exciting journey of
teaching English abroad so yeah let me know if you can hear me if you can see me uh drop a hi in the comment section
oh perfect and also let me know where are you watching from today
I already see crystalline here Hi crystaline how are you doing good to see
you again awesome great where are you guys watching from today where... [Read more]
China's Ban on Private ESL Tutoring: What You Need To Know - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
China's Ban on Private ESL Tutoring: What You Need To Know
10/29/2021
hello hi welcome to another live session my name is linda from i t t t and as you
can see today we're going to talk about china's ban on private esl tutoring
everything you need to know what we know so far there's still a lot of ambiguity
but i've done a lot of research i talked to a lot of people so hopefully i'll be able to tell you something you might not
know yet and give a little bit of clarity into this topic but uh disclaimer
you know things change all the time and there's still like i said a lot of ambiguity around this whole topic
a lot of even experts aren't sure yet how everything is going to be implemented how it's going to look like
in the future so just i want to say that up front and ittttt this is also... [Read more]
Teaching English in 2023: Setting Realistic TEFL Goals - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
Teaching English in 2023: Setting Realistic TEFL Goals
01/08/2023
Hi, Linda here. Welcome back with another live session this week. Welcome, thank you so much for joining me today and taking some time out of your day today to spend it with me. I really appreciate it. I know it's a busy time of the year. You know we're almost New Year's Eve so we're heading into the new year, busy time. Busy time, but um I'm here and thank you that you're here as well. I appreciate that.
How is everybody doing? Um, let me know guys, where are you watching from right now? I'm in South Korea, it is 10:30 a.m. Friday morning. And yeah, how about you? Where are you watching from today? What time is it? Let me know. I'm always super curious. Let me know in the comments and let me know if there's an issue if... [Read more]
Teaching Abroad: How to Save Money & Pay off Loans - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
Teaching Abroad: How to Save Money & Pay off Loans
02/24/2023
hi welcome Linda here back this week with another live session for ITT the
tefl and tesol training um yeah thank you so much for joining
and for being here today uh if you're seeing this for the first time thank you
so much for tuning in I'm going to introduce myself in a little bit and I'm also going to share a 30 off discount
opportunity today um that you can use to uh get 30 off any
of itt's tefl or tesol courses today so
we have a wide variety of different courses um you can take a look at our website tefl
course.net and you'll see all of the different courses that we offer if you are not new here and you have seen me
before and you have joined this live stream before thank you so much
um I really appreciate all the... [Read more]
The Best Countries for Solo Women to Teach English Abroad - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
The Best Countries for Solo Women to Teach English Abroad
02/19/2021
hi everybody hello and good morning or good evening wherever you
are right now i'm in south korea it's 10 a.m friday and so good morning
um yeah i'm back here again today my name is linda from itt
um if you've been here before hi and if this is your first time watching
thanks so much for tuning in and taking the time we really really appreciate it um yeah so if any
if at any time during this live session today you have any questions feel free to drop your comments
in the comment section from whichever platform you're watching from so we are streaming live on facebook and
on youtube at the same time if you can see me if you can hear me just leave a
high into the comment box that would be really highly appreciated so that... [Read more]
TEFL TALK: Open Q&A Session About All Things TEFL & Teaching - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
TEFL TALK: Open Q&A Session about all things TEFL & Teaching
Hello everybody and welcome. We're actually also going live on Instagram today, so I'm going to check that out as well as the usual Facebook and YouTube. Hopefully everything will work fine. I hope everybody can hear me well and can see me. This is the first time that we're actually live on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube at the same time, so I have a lot of screens here in front of me.
Hello there, I see somebody tuned in on Instagram and we have a few people here on Facebook and YouTube already. I hope everything is going well today. Unfortunately, if you're watching on Instagram you won't be able to see the screen and maybe some of the questions that I'm popping in there but that's all good, you can still... [Read more]
Top 8 Resources for Researching Teaching English Abroad - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
Top 8 Resources for Researching Teaching English Abroad
06/17/2021
guys hello linda here from itt hope you are doing well today um
thanks so much for joining today's live stream and as you can see today we're talking
about this way top eight resources for finding the right teaching destination
that's the topic for today i hope um you're going to enjoy it it's probably
going to take about 30 to 40 minutes and then as always at the end there will be a q a part
so you will be able to ask your own questions at that time but also feel free to just leave your comments
as we go we are live on facebook and on youtube at the same time and if
you can see me if you can hear me if you are there please please just leave a quick hi in the comment box that would really
mean a lot and then i can see... [Read more]
TEFL TALK: Open Q&A Session about all things TEFL & Teaching - TEFL Blog
Wed, 10 Mar 2021 Federico Riva
TEFL Information Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas
TEFL TALK: Open Q&A Session about all things TEFL & Teaching
Hello everybody and welcome. We're actually also going live on Instagram today, so I'm going to check that out as well as the usual Facebook and YouTube. Hopefully everything will work fine. I hope everybody can hear me well and can see me. This is the first time that we're actually live on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube at the same time, so I have a lot of screens here in front of me.
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Watch the live session here
I see there's quite a lot of questions coming in on Instagram, I need to check that out. One of the questions was: is your institution recognized internationally?
Another question on Instagram. Is the... [Read more]
The Best Countries for Teaching English in 2021 - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
The Best Countries for Teaching English in 2021
12/17/2020
hello hello hello and welcome to another live session my name is
linda from itt and you can find me on social media at linda ghost east um
yeah thanks for tuning in let me just see that everything's working if you can see
me and if you can hear me please um leave a comment as always you
know the drill and yeah this is actually our last
um live session or my last live session we have another one on tuesday from my
colleague lisa but me it's my last live session before christmas and so um i wanted to get a little
festive this is my attempt at being festive so um yeah that's what we're working with
today um yeah if you can see me and hear me please leave a comment that would be
really really awesome yay awesome it starts yeah
hi... [Read more]
These Are The Best Government Programs For Teaching English Abroad - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
These are the Best Government Programs for Teaching English Abroad
Hi my name is Linda from ITTT, international TEFL and TESOL Training and I'm back again today for another live session. If you can hear me and see me please let me know as I'm trying out a new mic today so if that is working well it would be good to know. So please leave a quick comment to say hi and where you're watching from. I have been living in South Korea for five and a half years, so for me right now it's 10:00 a.m. Friday morning. Let me know where you are tuning in from and what time it is where you are.
Okay cool, hi South Africa, welcome and thanks so much for joining. I guess you can see me and you can hear me so that's really great. Let's just wait for a few more people to join and then we can get... [Read more]
These are the Best Government Programs for Teaching English Abroad - TEFL Blog
Mon, 08 Mar 2021 Federico Riva
TEFL Information Teaching Ideas
These are the Best Government Programs for Teaching English Abroad
Hi my name is Linda from ITTT, international TEFL and TESOL Training and I'm back again today for another live session. If you can hear me and see me please let me know as I'm trying out a new mic today so if that is working well it would be good to know. So please leave a quick comment to say hi and where you're watching from. I have been living in South Korea for five and a half years, so for me right now it's 10:00 a.m. Friday morning. Let me know where you are tuning in from and what time it is where you are.
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Watch the live session here
So back to today's topic. The best government programs for teaching English abroad. So what does... [Read more]
TEFL TALK: Open Q&A Session about all things TEFL & Teaching - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
TEFL TALK: Open Q&A Session about all things TEFL & Teaching
01/21/2021
hello everybody hello and welcome
we're actually also going live on instagram today so i'm gonna check that out as well
so when i look here hi this is on instagram and when i look here this is on facebook
and youtube so hopefully everything will be working fine
i hope everybody can hear me well and can see me as well so this is the first time that
we're actually live on instagram and on facebook and youtube at the same time so i have a lot of
screens here in front of me hello there i see somebody tuned in on instagram and a couple of people here as
well on facebook and youtube so
i hope everything is going well today hi great okay so unfortunately if you're
watching on instagram um you won't be able to see... [Read more]
Where to find TEFL jobs? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ TEFL FAQs
Where to find TEFL jobs?
Due to a strong demand in many countries, TEFL qualified teachers should have plenty of great options to choose from. Across Asia, Europe and Latin America there are countless opportunities available depending on your own personal preferences. Whether your main goal is to make as much money as possible, to experience living in a different culture, or to get right off of the beaten path, there is the ideal destination waiting for you.
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How to teach English in Asia?
How do I get a job teaching English in South Korea?
What are the requirements for teaching English in South Korea?
What Kind of school will I work in teaching English in South Korea?
What is the best way to apply for jobs teaching English in South Korea?
How do I get a job... [Read more]
Where to find TEFL jobs? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ TEFL FAQs
Where to find TEFL jobs?
Due to a strong demand in many countries, TEFL qualified teachers should have plenty of great options to choose from. Across Asia, Europe and Latin America there are countless opportunities available depending on your own personal preferences. Whether your main goal is to make as much money as possible, to experience living in a different culture, or to get right off of the beaten path, there is the ideal destination waiting for you.
How to teach English in Asia?
If you are looking for the widest choice of English language teaching jobs, look no further than Asia. Across the continent you will find countless opportunities in a wide range of fascinating countries, although the requirements do vary from one to the next. Some countries are only open to native... [Read more]
What are TEFL jobs? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ TEFL FAQs
What are TEFL jobs?
Every year tens of thousands of people from all backgrounds leave behind their existing life and head overseas in search of fun, travel and adventure. They are able to do this by completing a TEFL certification course that gives them all the qualifications they need to apply for English language teaching jobs in countries all over the world. If you want to join this ever growing number of TEFL qualified teachers, there should be very little that can get in your way.
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Where can I teach English abroad?
Which is the most popular region for teaching English abroad?
Where can I earn the most money teaching English in Asia?
What other popular spots are there for teaching English in Asia?
Where are the most popular TEFL destinations in the Middle East?
... [Read more]
The Best Government-Run Programs For Teaching English Abroad - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
The Best Government-Run Programs For Teaching English Abroad
01/14/2021
My name is linda i'm from itt international tefl and tesol training
and um yeah i'm back again today for another live session and yeah if you can hear me if
you can see me because i'm trying out a new mic today so if that is um working well
um i need to know if you can hear me and you can see me so
please leave a quick comment um just throwing in a high and where you're watching from so that i
know that you can hear me clearly and that you can see me and that you're here and ready to go through today's
live and today's topic that would be really really great um yeah my name is linda
um working for itt and i have been living in south korea
for five and a half years so for me right now it's 10 a.m friday
morning in... [Read more]
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TEFL & TESOL Jobs FAQ
If you are nearing the end of your TEFL certification course or you are already certified but have yet to start teaching, you will probably have a number of questions regarding English language teaching jobs. In our FAQs below we tackle a wide range of questions, from which countries offer the best options to how to go about landing a position in your country of choice. You will also find answers about job interviews, how to prepare your documentation, and a whole host of other job related info.
What questions should I ask a TEFL employer?
To decide whether a job is right for you it is essential to get as much information as possible during the interview. You should be clear on areas such as salary, working hours, class size, student's age,... [Read more]
What are TEFL jobs? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ TEFL FAQs
What are TEFL jobs?
Every year tens of thousands of people from all backgrounds leave behind their existing life and head overseas in search of fun, travel and adventure. They are able to do this by completing a TEFL certification course that gives them all the qualifications they need to apply for English language teaching jobs in countries all over the world. If you want to join this ever growing number of TEFL qualified teachers, there should be very little that can get in your way.
Where can I teach English abroad?
Among the many attractions of teaching English abroad is the fact that you are free to choose not only the region where you would like to work, but also the specific country or even city. For some teachers the history and culture of Europe appeals most, while others are... [Read more]