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fancynan · Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 4:58 pm Post subject: Kaiserslautern

I have done a search but nothing came back for Kaiserslautern. Does anyone know if there is a market there for TEFL, particularly Business English? There are tons of American military there but I don't know if there is much in the way of German business (I realize Frankfurt is the financial mecca).

Thanks for any info.

puhutes · Joined: 07 Nov 2007 Posts: 46

In my experience, you can find a job teaching English in Germany pretty much anywhere... there are always people and companies eager to pay a native speaking person to teach English Smile

PS... just search for Kaiserslautern on www.gelbeseiten.de or search google for English language schools. Most cities have atleast one.

fancynan · Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 11:10 am Post subject:

Thanks. I'll check out that website.

Deicide · Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 1:05 pm Post subject:

Kaiserslautern is one of the biggest dungholes in Germany; don't go there.

puhutes · Joined: 07 Nov 2007 Posts: 46

Wow, talk about a fantastically positive, and useful reply... hopefully you ignore it and don't get discouraged by it. Good luck!

explorer06 · Joined: 02 Jul 2004 Posts: 8

Hey there...

I 'll be moving to Germany, as well, to Kaiser, unfortunately, cuz my husband just got orders to move there for three years.... Sad

I was hoping we'd go to Japan, but didnt get it...I 've been worried about teaching there as well, and I am sure many other spouses like myself, who dont have TEFL or any other significant certificates.... But thank you for pointing out the website....any other useful information would be greatly appreciated guys!!!

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

I would think a working knowledge of German would be more use than a TEFL Certificate !

Hod · Joined: 28 Apr 2003 Posts: 1613 Location: Home

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Sweety-pie, that is NOT what I mean by a working knowledge of German !
I mean the sort of standard required circa 1955 to passs what was then called "Matric", before all this nonsense called A levels and O levels came in.

Hod · Joined: 28 Apr 2003 Posts: 1613 Location: Home

I was playing.

Actually, no I wasn't. If you've ever had the misfortune to witness numpties at work in a German classroom, you'd take a bit of TEFL training over decent German any day.

Deicide · Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 7:28 pm Post subject:

I am telling you that KL is a rathole...no one believes me.

the dakota kid · Joined: 25 Oct 2008 Posts: 44

I would not call Ktown a rathole or dunghole...there are alot worse places to live and work. Alot has changed in the town over the last 10+ years, mostly for the better.

If you are looking for a good night life, it's not there. Go to Berlin and have a good time. If you are looking for all of the tourist shite on postcards, it's not there. If you think a trip to Germany requires at least two visits to a KZ, they are not there. If you wanna see a lot of nature, taste wonderful white wines, eat more fresh vegetables than almost any other part of Germany, have a bit of diversity in the traditional German cuisine, it is there! Rheinland Pfalz eats salads all the time, I wonder if the Berliners know what a salad is...(sarcastically speaking)

Now if only there football team could get their act together and get back into the Bundesliga....

I will be there right after Xmas for a few weeks...I will let you know if it is a dung heap at that time!

tdk

and no, I was not stationed there as a Soldat, only as a student and carpenter

fraup · Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2008 2:38 am Post subject:

If you're going as a military spouse you can probably get work subbing in one of the DODDS schools on the base. When I was in Okinawa in 2000 I was shocked to learn that the base high school, where I taught college courses in the evening, hired subs with only 2 years of college--paid fairly well too. (Of course it's in dollars so you have to look at the $/Euro rate now.) Also, there seems to be a big need for Business English, esp. for someone who actually knows a bit about business.

explorer06 · Joined: 02 Jul 2004 Posts: 8

Hey people,

Just wanted to say that we have arrived here in what they call the K-town..! It's a rathole!! God I miss where I was before, ! Everything was soooooo much easier..... We have fields all around us, and you have to drive here like a maniac otherwise they look at you funny ! I dont even drive that well, so life sucks right now..... Sad

(( No subways, not so frequent buses... It's not a convenient to place to live..... Wish we never came here....

Great Teacher Umikun · Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Posts: 63 Location: Back in Japan

I guess it depends on what you're looking for in a place. I was in Kaiserslautern in 1999 and 2000, and it didn't seem so bad back then. And your description of fields all around hardly sounds like anything I'd call a "rathole".

You wanna talk about inconvenient though? Try coming up here to Center Ossippee, New Hampshire and then try complaining about how Kaiserslautern is inconvenient. ^_^