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[SeasonedVet]

I remember one post where a guy was asking if he can find a job teaching English in Jamaica, and the response from one poster was that it might not be so easy and the reason given was that jamaicans speak English and in fact they seem to have preserved some vestiges of Shakespeareian English.
I don't know if that reply was a little exaggeration but the point is that these things serve to inform us.
So I have met English teachers here in Japan who hail from Jamaica.

Don't mean to belabor this point or this post though.

Thanks for all the comments so far.

[womblingfree]

The reason that people from the US/UK/Canada/Australia/N. Zealand are employed over native speakers from other countries has nothing to do with linguistic ability and everything to do with racist hiring policies.

Eikaiwa don't sell language classes, the classes are almost an irrelevance. They sell the opportunity to hang out and meet Westerners.

They sell cultural stereotypes far more than language education.

English is the national language of Nigeria, but you won't see any eikaiwa recruitment offices in Lagos!

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[womblingfree]

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