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[mithridates]

Another privates thread?! Not exactly.

I was curious - is it illegal to do privates for obscure or extinct languages? Would immigration care if you made money through a Latin study group or gathering on the Huron language? What about artificial / constructed languages, what about if you knew Egyptian hieroglyphics and were teaching them for money? Would immigration be hard-assed about it and say 'the law is the law, you're getting fined' or would they bug their eyes out and go 'you're teaching what?!?! Um...carry on. (I don't even know what that is )"

What if you were teaching Klingon? Etc. etc.

[kangnamdragon]

Privates are illegal. It is illegal to dig a ditch and take money.

How would you get caught? I doubt someone would turn you in for teaching Latin. Taking money and not reporting the income is illegal in most countries that have an income tax, to my knowledge.

[temporos]

Private lessons are illegal in Korea no matter what language you may be teaching. Be careful if you are doing privates, too. Immigration is currently out in force investigating foreign teachers at random. In fact, all the teachers at my hakwon were interviewed by the police a couple weeks back. Fortunately, the officers who did the questioning were really cool guys.

Klingon, eh? nuqDaq yuch Dapol?

[crazylemongirl]

any work outside of your designated place of employment is illegal. doesn't matter what you are doing.

[Derrek]

I've always wondered about "language exchanges."

Say If I'm meeting a Korean friend for coffee and we're helping each other out ... could the technically bust someone for that? What if some immigration guys were following me around -- looking for a score.

Unlikely, I know, but makes me wonder sometimes.

Glad all of my books I use during language exchange with people are Korean language study books. Of course, they could be used both ways -- kind of funny way to hide it if you wanted to be careful, I guess.

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

TMKATM, there is no money to be made teaching Esperanto privates.

None.

But if you get hassled by the polizei while tutoring comely co-eds in a cafeteria (I don't choose alliteration; alliteration chooses me) just tell 'em you're recruiting for a Hongdae sex party. Problem solved.

Sparkles*_*

[mithridates]

[flutieflakes]

this whole "privates are illegal" thing really is a joke............i recently returned to canada after 2.5 on the penninsula and did privates the whole time i was there and always had a wad of cash in my pocket and the bank because of it..........teaching in the public school system, i mainly taught public school teachrs' kids.........i once even taught a supervisor in the education office........all of the teachers i knew knew i did privates AS WELL as my supervisor in the education office..........so keep blowing the trumpets about how illegal privates are while people like me continue to benefit from the activty of doing such...................idiots

[The Man known as The Man]

Corporal, you won't be making any money teaching esperanto privates.


Esperanto is not a real language.


Want to know something else?


There is no money to bemade doing privates.


privates are illegal.

[Captain Corea]

I've often wondered how they differentiate between a private and a language exchange. Baring them seeing the money, how could they tell?

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

[kangnamdragon]

TMKATM.....

Privates are illegal, but, I hate to break it to you, a lot of money can be made doing privates.