i'm dying to teach english in japan/china but have no formal traing or college experience. please help?!?

Answer 1

i'm dying to teach english to those in Arkansas but that may never happen. I suggest you go to college.

Answer 2

My only experience is with Korea, conveniently located between Japan and China, and their language is one heck of a lot easier to read. They have a beautiful phonetic alphabet that puts ours to shame. I learned to read Korean in two hours. Speaking Korean is another matter entirely. This ain't Spanish class. If you do go to Korea, I strongly urge you to immediately enroll in a Korean language class at the "Korea Herald," an English language newspaper in Seoul. I lived at least 30 miles from the city and I went there. It was a brutal commute.

To teach English legally, you have to have a bacelor's degree in something. There are plenty of illegal English teachers, and they are in demand. It's easy to meet them. Get a guide book called "Lonely Planet." Look for the cheapest hotels in Seoul, including the one they unfairly call a firetrap. Buildings in Korea are made of concrete, not wood. Those are the places where a lot of illegal English teachers live, and they all hang out in the common area. Not elegant, but lots of fun conversation. One sort of people you'll meet are the ones who make no effort to learn the language, and are proud of being able to survive that way. Dumb, ignorant and stupid. One thing I can guarantee you is that you won't learn the language just by being there. You have to study it. I used tapes, books and expensive lessons. My Korean eventually got to the atrocious level.

A lot of companies will hire you to teach their employees, and you will end up with 3 or 4 part-time jobs. The hourly rate is great, but you spend an equal amount of time riding a subway around one of the biggest cities in the world. If you come on a tourist visa like the illegal English teachers do, you will have to go to Japan once a month to get your passport stamped.

The Korean people are the greatest. They live in a country they call Hanguk. I'm no expert, but I don't think they have a word for alphabet. They write with hangugmal (Korean word.) I've heard two stories on how we came to call the place Korea. One is that the name comes from the Korea dynasty, which went out of business about 1,000 years ago. The story I find more plausible is that we adapted the name from the Japanese name, which means high and clear--high mountains and clear streams. Mountains they've got, and not much else, but they're tiny.

I loved the Koreans, but there are a few things I should tell you about. They have very good manners, but in their own way. If somebody is walking too slow, they shove them out of the way. That's just how it's done. They yell at waiters and waitresses, which seems rude to us, but it lets the server sit down and relax until somebody yells. No need to watch everybody. They're awful drivers and the cops are too polite to do anything about it, and people go around drunk in public and everybody's too polite to object. One morning at 5:00 a.m. somebody started working near my house with a chainsaw and everybody was too polite to object.

If somebody asks you to go to dinner or anything else, the one who asks pays. There is no tipping. If you are invited to somebody's house for a social occasion, bring a gift, some sweet rolls or a jug of orange juice, or something.

Answer 3

I would think you would need some English training-just speaking english might not be enough

Answer 4

if your english is very good you should be able to teach or at least tutor english