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[Marieonearth]

Hi.

I am presently planning to make the move to another country next month to teach either English or French, but I would prefer French and I have difficulties finding information about French teaching positions.
I am interested in a few countries, so you may see this message on more than one board, I don�t mean to spam or anything like that.
I know these boards are mostly for English teaching discussions, but I think that a lot of you may be working in Universities or Language schools and may have some information about French teaching opportunities.

I am French-Canadian girl, fluent in both English and French. Let this be clear. I�ve been raised in both English and French. I am really fluent in both language but went it comes to grammar, orthography or just writing, I am more at ease in French because I did my early school years in English but did the more advanced studies in French.

I have a Bachelor and I know most people are a little bit concerned about the �Qu�b�cois� accent, but I traveled a lot and never had any problems with my accent and I can polish it a lot more that I already do when I have to.

What are the possibilities in China. I am planning to land on mid-November. I don�t mind just showing up and I have savings, but I would like advices on where I should look first to get a job teaching French. I wouldn�t mind doing English conversation classes too if it can help.

Thank you in advance for your help.

[sharpe88]

Do you have a teaching or linguistics background of any kind ?

There is Alliance Francaise in Beijing and Shanghai, as far as i know.

[Marieonearth]

No.
I did some French tutoring when I was at the university because I have a high l French evel of grammar, etc... but that's all.
I live next door to a bunch of guys from Guatemala and I help then with their French conversation skills but nothing official.
I don't think I could find a job at the Alliance Fran�aise, more a local language school.

[The Ever-changing Cleric]

[nobleignoramus]

Personally, I do find le francais quebecois un tout petit peu difficult to understand but Iam all for diversity.

In our college, English majors may take a second foreign language,and French is right behind or below Japanese on the foreign languages ladder.
Ours is a private institution. You may want to contact public universities that specialise in foreign studies or foreign languages, of which there are a couple inmost big cities.

There also is the Alliance Francaise, which runs its cultural centres in four or five big cities in China. However, they only hire you as a temp or a parttimer.

[El Macho]

Look at public Foreign Language High Schools. The school at which I taught had FT's for Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, and Russian. Don't waste your time with cram schools, look at public high schools. Write them directly about possible employment. I'd warn you, though, that from my limited experience it seemed that turnover amongst FT's of languages other than English was much lower than that among ELT's.