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ArbiterXL
Joined: 28 Sep 2006
Location: Mississippi
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 Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 11:42 pm Post subject: 3 Easy (hopefully) One's... |
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3 easy questions...
1. If I work at a Hogwon, will I have to buy my airfare, or will it be paid for me?
2. With lots of practice, will I have any luck learning Korean?
3. Can I get a TESOL/ESL certificate over in Korea while working?
Any help will be most appreciated. Thanks! |
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Hans Blix
Joined: 31 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 11:53 pm Post subject: Re: 3 Easy (hopefully) One's... |
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| ArbiterXL wrote: |
3 easy questions...
1. If I work at a Hogwon, will I have to buy my airfare, or will it be paid for me?
2. With lots of practice, will I have any luck learning Korean?
3. Can I get a TESOL/ESL certificate over in Korea while working?
Any help will be most appreciated. Thanks! |
1. you may have to buy your airfare, but a standard contract will provide reimbursement.
2. for an english speaker, korean is a much more challenging language than most european languages, but if you're committed, you should achieve satisfactory results. fluency would take many years, i'd expect.
3. dunno |
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Fresh Prince
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
Location: The glorious nation of Korea
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| Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 2:17 am Post subject: |
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There are plenty of hogwans that pay airfare however there are some that don't.
There are many factors that determine a person's abiltity to learn Korean. If you really are motivated and work hard you can learn the langauge. The time it will take will depend on your abilty and previous experience with learning foreign languages. It is classified as one of the most difficult languages to learn. If Korean is your first foreign language then it will take a lot longer than someone that has studied another foriegn language. If you have studied Japanese or Chinese then that will help you in your studies of Korean. Most of the ESL teachers that I have met are not able to speak Korean comfortably in any situation.
There are certificates available everywhere but their quality differs. There are internet certificates and other types of certificates. After you gain a experience in Korea you will have a better idea of what kind of certificate, if any, is right for you.
Many people come to Korea and realize it is not for them, and being an ESL teacher is not their first career choice. My suggestion is to wait unitil you have been in Korea for awhile before investing in any Korean language courses or certificates. |
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oneofthesarahs
Joined: 05 Nov 2006
Location: Sacheon City
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| Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 6:04 am Post subject: |
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| Learning Korean will also be much harder if you are teaching in a rural area, because you won't have access to the types of Korean classes you might have in Seoul, Busan, etc. If you try to learn Korean in a rural area, the majority of it you will have to teach yourself. If you're an independent language learner, it should be a great opportunity to immerse yourself in the language. If you need more class/cirriculum type structure, a rural area isn't going to work out for you very well. |
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