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[adrianmark]

My wife and I are moving to Madrid in a few months and she is a Beijing native with 8 years experience of teaching Chinese to foreigners.

Is there much demand in Madrid/Spain to learn Mandarin Chinese and what would the hourly rate be?

Thanks for any info.

[jovencito]

Quite a few language schools in Madrid offer Chinese language tution. Based on this, I imagine that your wife should be able to get a job teaching Chinese.

I have no idea what they pay, but I imagine that it will be similar to teacher rates for other foreign languages taught in Spain. Academy rates vary widely and go from around 13� per hour to as high as 25� per hour. If you teach private classes you can sometimes bill as high as 30� per hour depending on your skills (language and negotiation ).