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Q: Are English teachers acceptable in China even though English is not their native tongue?
10 years 18 weeks ago in Teaching & Learning - Other cities
Look, if they can hire people from Oz with that Oz speak of theirs,
then they can hire just about anyone.
and on that note,
a Fosters to everyone.
DaqingDevil:
Bloody bitch!!! 
Whaddyamean we speak funny?? Ever tried to decipher the words of a New Yorker!
Chat later - I'm havin' a beer and sulkin'.
I know two teachers in my city who come from Ghana and another one who's Filipino.
lol.... longer u stay here,,, u will know why I'm lol'ing~ I cannot tell u how many Head Teacher / DOS I've known, they cannot tell wtf I am saying and I cannot tell WTF they are saying. soooooo cool,,, sooo useful. no one knows wtf is going on, so, no one is accountable. can fk off and EVERYBODY is happy, which is why I came to Asia to begin with...
other day I said 'those tomatoes look good', my intelligent co-teacher from HK said that they were not potatoes. wow, thx for the clarification !
btw- straight-forward, slowly spoken Grade-school English is usually lost on them, so,,, good luck with the sarcasm ! 
:-p
Of course. Some of my friends found it hard to get work at the beginning, for example Belarussian passport throws potential employers. But once you prove you can teach you will be fine.
I actually think some of my colleagues who were non-native speakers were much better teachers than I was. In some cases they could actually explain why something was the way it was, when my response was always 'because it is. Though maybe this speak more to my lack of ability than to their ability.
I know of a Russian guy who was hired to be a teacher. That happened in Chengdu a few years ago. His accent was heavy. But he got the job. If the demand is there, so will the job. I think this an extreme case. Some places can't get an FT from the white English speaking countries ( the E 5: England, Canada, US, Australia, NZ). The primary motivator is money. Now we see many foreigners from other countries teaching English. I have seen people teaching English from SA, Sri-Lanka, Pakistan, India, Philippines and the Middle East.
Tons of teachers here: Filipinos, Germans, Russians, North and West Africans, Hungarians, French, Spanish, South Americans etc etc.
yes ,I am a Chinese teacher who teach foreigners Chinese ,many students of our center are English teachers in GZ,they come from many country .of course ,if you come from America or England you can easily get a better salary .however ,I also know some of them from Russia /French /spain/Ukrain ect.since we also hire English teachers ourselves ,we donnot care too much about the nationality of the teacher .the most important thing is their accent .and we can tell that by a interview .
yes ,I am a Chinese teacher who teach foreigners Chinese ,many students of our center are English teachers in GZ,they come from many country .of course ,if you come from America or England you can easily get a better salary .however ,I also know some of them from Russia /French /spain/Ukrain ect.since we also hire English teachers ourselves ,we donnot care too much about the nationality of the teacher .the most important thing is their accent .and we can tell that by a interview .
