Haraksha posted:

Yeah, 66,000 NT a month is ridiculous. You should probably expect to make like 500-600 NT an hour for your first job if you have no experience. The only way you're going to pull in more than 60,000 a month is if you work 25-40 hours a week teaching kindergarten in the morning every day and then teaching elementary school or junior high at night.

HappyHelmet posted:

You can, but I think it get prohibitively expensive when you factor in the extra shipping. Unless there is something really unique you want off of there plan on buying things locally.

DontAskKant posted:

Yeah, the unpaid work. In Korea I am working about 40+ a week once you factor in all the grading.

Are you NETs allowed to take privates? Our visa here in Korea forbids us from receiving any other pay or doing any other work. Sometimes even volunteer.

TetsuoTW posted:

Spanish Matlock posted:

WINNER!

duckfarts posted:

Don't buy it in the US; if you want to buy one straight, it's $700ish here, no locking shenanigans, works anywhere with whatever SIM card you chuck in it. If you plan on being here for 2 years, set up a contract; you'll get it for about $300-400 depending in your model, and you will need to pay about a year's worth of bills in advance, but provided you have the funds, it's not bad(you generally have a $0 bill each month for a pretty long time or maybe a few bucks at worst for international calls or texting). Pick whichever of the 3 medium rate plans (monthly will be around 1300NT or $40-45ish including tetherable unlimited data) fits your needs best because all but the most expensive plan ends up being more or less the same in the end(with the weird sliding discount on the iphone) over the 2 years. Prepaid is really easy to get, but I wouldn't recommend it for data myself.

For those that don't need data at all, you can have a monthly plan that's retarded cheap; I had a 200NT monthly plan for the longest time that I hardly went over on.

caberham posted:

From what I remember, ordering smart phones direct in the us should be unlocked? Get a smart phone, it's 2012 and there are also many helpful apps and dictionaries. Don't t 9 type unless you like to text with the phone in your pocket.

Since it's summer time wait for the new iPhone 5 and buy five, then sell them in Taiwan for a profit. Hong Kong finally cleared the seven month waiting list (all our phones gets sold to barbarian main Landers)

Ravendas posted:

Everybody wings it. It's expected. Being white means 2/3 of your job is done. Your main job is to keep the kids happy, and get them learning enough English so that their parents can see "My kid likes it, my kid speaks English" and continue giving money to your school.

You don't need anything beyond a bachelors degree, anything else is either gravy or ignored. My original training at my first school was just following the current teacher around and watch him teach. His training? Watch the previous teacher for awhile, etc etc etc.

Each school will have their own little training programs, but aside from getting you comfortable in Taiwan and trying to keep you from fleeing, they don't really teach a whole lot of teaching skills. "Hess formal training" lasts a week or so, and seems to be half team building exercises so you get a base of friends to fall back on so you don't flip out and flee as readily, and half going over the Hess specific curriculum.

TetsuoTW posted:

drat dude I don't know anyone who's been so fixated on getting all the details before arriving in Taiwan. poo poo, when I decided to move here I couldn't even place Taiwan on a map. I honestly thought it was what is actually Hainan.

Haraksha posted:

Poorly lit club after several bottles of soju and I had never knowingly met someone from Taiwan or Thailand before.

TetsuoTW posted:

Nah, just a regular work visa. Officially I work for a school in Taipei doing translation stuff and freelance on the side, but for a good six months a year the freelancing's the bulk of my (pitiful) income. I don't remember the specifics - and should probably look them up - but translation comes under one of the parts of the tax code (editing/writing, IIRC) where it's fine to do alongside actual work. The 勞委會/CLA did try and step a couple of years back, but since everything's legit and above-board (I even pay tax on the work) the client involved and my ARC sponsor got it sorted with them.

TetsuoTW posted:

Being an English speaker alone doesn't make you all that special here - there are already thousands of us. poo poo, there are even plenty of English-speakers here who speak amazing Mandarin.

Haraksha posted:

Korean soups are out of this world. Doenjjang jjigae remains one of my favorite dishes in the entire world. This is what Korean restaurants typically serve in place of the ubiquitous corn soup in Taiwan. It's not even fair to compare them.

USDA Choice posted:

• Yes
  
• No
  
• If your GPA is good, put it in there. If it's bad leave it out. edit: If it's still above 3.0 I'd list it alongside your major GPA
  
• Not really. They give you a blood test (all English teachers have to undergo one) upon arriving before you can get your resident card but it's mostly tested for AIDS and a couple other nasty diseases. They aren't going to run it for cannabinoids, but perhaps other harder drugs in high enough doses would appear? I'm no hematologist but unless you're going all Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas with your body I don't think it'll show.
  
• Talk up any teaching experience you have, even if it's being a TA in high school. Also talk up experience with kids. Use common sense when replying to any scenario questions like "What would you do if a kid starts crying?" so you build to more serious steps like first talking to him quietly in English while the class is busy, then getting the CT involved and let the kid speak Chinese, then have the kid leave the room with the CT.

BottledBacon posted:

In terms of being able to get work while also teaching English, it's possible, I work in a job with no contract right now, but I think with HESS if that's your chosen path it might be a little difficult.

TetsuoTW posted:

McDonald's burgers look real tasty in their videos too.

USDA Choice posted:

Trust me(us), you're overthinking it. If they were as selective as West Point they wouldn't have any English teachers. There are a lot of round pegs escaping square holes at Hess, if you will.

Internet is quite cheap and powerful. I paid less than NT$1000/month for 25up/10 down plus a mid-tier cable package, and I don't think it was even that good of a rate since my last apartment building only had 1 provider and thus no competition. Still, this crushes American rates for the same service.

Moon Slayer posted:

poo poo, hang on guys, I need to go cancel a business card order.

EDIT:



I didn't know it was Serious Business, guys

poetrywhore posted:

I haven't found any, poet here, been looking for a hot minute. Let's be homies though.

DontAskKant posted:

Oh? Where? Dish? I live here and know things well and don't know what you mean.

quote:

How would you teach the following example to a class of students who have been studying English for about 4-5 months?

They already know the sentence pattern:

Is this a (noun)?
Yes, this is a (noun).
No, this is not a (noun).

You have to introduce and teach the possessive adjectives HIS/HER with the new sentence pattern:

Is this HIS/HER (noun)?
Yes, this is HIS/HER (noun).
No, this is not HIS/HER (noun).

What would you do to teach this to the class?

GoutPatrol posted:

Then once they hear you speak the new pattern, write it up on the board, specifically noting to erase the A part and replace it with his and her, showing them the positive and negative answers you could say.