teaching english in a foreign country

[citanul]

daryn,

you should check the details before you go and do something like pick up and move.

i know for france, for instance, you can't stay in country as an american for more than 90 days without a work visa. and i don't think they give out work visas for waiters. i could be wrong.

my guess is that something similar applies in italy. call your local embassy or something [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

good luck, i've been thinking about doing similar.

citanul

[partygirluk]

Do you have an EU passport. Because that would make your life much easier.

[BK_]

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i am liking florence.

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Rome > Florence.

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ewww you are insane! you couldnt pay me to choose rome over florence. rome is dirty and busy, florence is beautiful and compact.

[BK_]

if i were you i would choose a medium sized city on the coast. man the italian coast is beautiful

[cockandbull]

With regards to finding a place, i'd stay in a hostal for a few weeks, you get to have a look around the city you choose(if you haven't already been) and you also get the chance to check out a few places before you decide.

While looking for a place in oz, we found a place we liked told them how long we'd like to stay and paid in full. If you have the cash to do this this will help you alot being a (at a guess)non-EU.

[Martin Aigner]

What IPP says is pretty much correct for all the north and middle european countries. I´m not saying that my english is good by any means, but we (austrians) start to learn english in school at the age of 8 or 9, some even earlier. English is being tought to us all the way to finishing scholl (depending on the type of school between 15 and 19), meaning about 3 -5 hrs of english every week. If you study english you will have to wait for a job offer after university for several years.

On the other side, whenever I was in Italy and Spain I thought that even the young people there spoke a terrible english or hardly english at all. So I think that looking for an english teaching job in these countries wouldn´t be that hopeless.

A problem might be: It´s quite possible that you have to show some kind of diploma of an university to teach a language. (English language or interpreting diploma this is, of course). You wouldn´t be allowed to do teaching english in an austrian school without any of these diplomas. Actually you would even need a second subject to teach. Private lessons are something different of course.

Another problem: I´m not quite sure about visas for americans. I doubt that americans without a working visa (which wouldn´t be too easy to recieve) can stay longer in the EU than 3 or maximum 6 months (Just as we aren´t allowed to stay longer in the USA).

Best regards and good luck in Italy.

Martin Aigner

[Punker]

I taught English in Korea in 2002. There are a large number of recruiters who can assist you quite easily in this matter; basically, you need a North American accent and a University degree (any discipline - the government requires it to issue the E-1 work visa).

Personally, I didn't care for it; it was too much culture shock for me.

[partygirluk]

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Europeans that I've met have very good English.

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Clearly you have never met a Frenchman.

[smudgex68]

daryn,
if you're very keen to do this, you would have no problem finding a job teaching English in either Rome or Florence. Any one with mother tongue English can go to virtually any country in the world these days and find a job easily - it just takes some courage but it isn't hard I assure you. You only need to check out your visa requirements. Then rent a room in a Residence for a month whilst finding a flat. I did it when I was 26 and have no regrets - been here in Milan 9 years now.

[theBruiser500]

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Europeans that I've met have very good English.

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Clearly you have never met a Frenchman.

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Yeah, I'm talking about Germans, Dutch, Israelis, English.