So no one has gotten in trouble for using Illinois sub license? I’m looking at the site right now and I’m on this page. I’m assuming this part will help me get the sub license that’s recommended: https://www.isbe.net/Documents/how-become-sub-teacher.pdf
Right. For voting they go by the last state you lived in before moving overseas, but that doesn’t mean you’re still a resident of that state.
Nothing to get in trouble for, it’s a loophole that ticks a box. If they had a problem with it, they’d close the loophole.
Its this a joke ?
Someone thinking that maybe will not be water and electricity in taiwan lol
Ha, haven’t heard this one before so I had to chuckle. Taoyuan was called the armpit of Taiwan when I moved here, but it’s my “hometown” in Taiwan so I’m a bit partial to it. And yes, you can get anywhere from here because the country is small.
The rent on Taoyuan is substantial cheap than other areas. I lived there, with a scooter, and enjoyed myself. I hope you are ready for the special kind of disrespect that ABC’s experience in the home country.
Can you elaborate? As an ABC, I knew that I would expect some discrimination for not being a white English teacher coming in, but I want to know the full picture.
I think not knowing Chinese will be a surprise to many. They will tell you to learn Chinese. There is an issue where you are not American and not Taiwanese. It doesn’t make sense but that is the thought process.
Isn’t the home country the USA? Funny thing last month when my son was visiting, we get into a taxi in Taichung… driver is like OK two English speaking dudes… my son tells the address in Mandarin.
Then we start speaking Taiwanese… Taxi driver says I guess you two aren’t English teachers. My son replies in Taiwanese he’s a lawyer in Australia and I live here doing IPTV. Driver asks damn where did you learn your Taiwanese? my son replies from watching You Tube lol Taxi driver laughs and chats with us to our destination. Funny thing is my son’s first language is Taiwanese as his Mom and his uncles and grandparents always spoke to him in Taiwanese for the first several years of his life.
Taichung a good place for growing up and speaking Taiwanese.
Or, China?
Be careful what you wish for. One of the things people have is cultural shock.
You are an American about to have a new adventure. You will have frustrations and you will probably have to pass getting homesick at some point. I don’t really go with the I’m an ABC moniker.
I’d just go with I’m an American.
Get a US teaching license and join the Foreign English Teaching program.
@comfy is in that and it’s well paid when you have post graduate degree.
Yup… that’s why they got them.
Just pretend your distant ancestors are a mix of different Asians who have lived in the US for generations. Say you are Asian American if they ask, and don’t say Taiwanese American.
Well, the thing is that I do know conversational Mandarin- so that won’t be the issue perse. I’ve been told my grammar is like ~70% correct and mostly understandable so that should be good enough to get around.
Also my general question is whether submitting the Foreign English Teacher Program app late March / early April would still be ok? I have no clue how many people are applying, but early orientation should be August. I’m waiting on instructions from the embassy about how to get that police background check and fixing my other materials. I sincerely hope that my credentials would be enough to impress them- since it’s been hard to find other apps with options that treat teachers well.
Just speak English. People will look at you funny if you speak broken Mandarin, if you look Taiwanese.
If you do speak Mandain, just tell people you are Japanese or Korean.
As a public service announcement: do be aware, if you eventually make it to our lovely island, that the word “app” here (I think it is typically pronounced A-P-P) means something different—like an app on your phone!
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One does not need to make $80 to $90k per month to afford what the city has to offer. You can easily make less and live comfortably. It all depends on where you place your priorities. Many foreigners come here and live the same lifestyles they lived back home which ends up costing them quite a bit since earnings are going to be less.
Working full time and taking Chinese classes at the MTC is a good way to break people. If he has some Chinese to begin with and finds part time classes, he’ll be much better off.
Well not entirely. I still qualify for instate tuition if I go to grad school at a state school in my home state because I graduated from high school there, no matter how many years I don’t live there. That means in that case that I am still a “resident” for tuition purposes. But like so many things in the US, every state does its own thing.