Hi, I have a German passport but I want to teach English in Taipei. Is this legal? I have master in English. Thanks
I am German, yet never worked in the teaching industry. As far as I know only native English speakers can work legally as English teachers here. Yet I personally know a EU citizen not from UK/IRL working in a “Kindergarten” as a teacher. He might be employed as an adviser or similar, which would not make it perfectly legal.
Maybe wait for people from the business here on the forum who talk you through it.
[quote=“bob_honest”]I am German, yet never worked in the teaching industry. As far as I know only native English speakers can work legally as English teachers here. Yet I personally know a EU citizen not from UK/IRL working in a “Kindergarten” as a teacher. He might be employed as an adviser or similar, which would not make it perfectly legal.
Maybe wait for people from the business here on the forum who talk you through it.[/quote]
Only citizens from certain English-speaking countries can get a work permit as English teachers. If you have open work rights through marriage to a local or an APRC it would entirely depend on a school willing to employ you but there would be no legal restriction due to your nationality.
Ah yes, that is what that other EU fellow’s situation is, because he is married here.
I know many non-English native speakers from EU counrties that teach English. Even heard for Turkish ones so anything is possible i guess. The funny thing is that I know some of them and their accent sucks big time.