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FuzzX · Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 122

Your thoughts please.

I have been teaching english for about 4 years now, each year a different country (Korea, Brazil, Japan, Mexico). This time around I found a woman that I want to keep, but the country.... I can�t stand the food here and I have to leave. :=)

I�ve been to china several times and I have a few friends working there. Noone of us have degrees... and thats not really my concern. My main concern is my girlfriend is a mexican and we are wondering if ESL schools are also looking for native spanish speakers.... she earns 8 pesos an hour here which is the equiv. of about 80 cents american so making 400 or 500 bucks a month is a small fortune for her.

I also have an uncle in china who married a chinese woman outside Bejing, so getting grounded and settled is not too much of a problem.

My main question: is there any sort of demand for a native spanish speaker in China? (I can show her how to teach, thats no problem)

thanks a bunch
FuzzX

Steppenwolf · Joined: 30 Jul 2006 Posts: 1769

So, you can "show her how to teach Spanish"? YTou think that's just a matter of showing the ropes? I would have thought it takes a bit more than that but well, we all can learn new things...

Your Mexican partner could probably teach Spanish at a prestigious language university or department of a college if she has a degree. They are quite eager to hire teachers of other languages than English but those teachers need to have qualifications.
If you test speakers of languages other than English here in China you will quickly see they have a better grasp of their second (all of them know Enlgish) foreign language than the majority have of English.
One of the reasons is that English is used as the medium of instruction in such classes.

jeffinflorida · Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 8:04 am Post subject:

Dude, teach her how to teach, print her out a phony degree, and get her teaching Spanish for 7000 rmb a month somewhere...

Life in China is better than life in Mexico I'd say... and I have been to the poorer sections of mexico more than a few times.

cj750 · Joined: 27 Apr 2004 Posts: 3081 Location: Beijing

jeffinflorida · Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 1:08 pm Post subject:

What about Taco Bell Supreme????

FuzzX · Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 122

Will-do thanks for the input. Very Happy