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This is your chance to share with others who teaching English abroad. If you have experience in any country across the world, send us your thoughts (in around 800 words) and we'll share them with other Tefl professionals. Email us:
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Mallorca coastSix weeks in Spain
Trainee teacher Kate Walker talks about her formative first lessons with a group of adult learners in Mallorca


 
The archive
Austria: As good as they say
Vienna ticks all the right boxes as a place to base yourself as an English language teacher, says Katie Binns.
 
China: Attention to detail
Being constantly stared at is a small price to pay for good students, good pay and a good experience teaching English in China, says Alison Jewitt
China crisis
 
Italy: Putting the passion into pronunciation
Laura Harrison, Tefl training advisor at Cactus Tefl, looks back on life in Lecco, the north-south divide, and the joys of veering off your lesson plan.
 
Kazakhstan: Into the unknown
Tefl teachers with a sense of adventure should try Kazakhstan, where oil has kick-started the language learning curve, says Paul Bartlett.
 
Spain: The strain in Spain
Teaching adults and children in Seville is stressful but rewarding, and the festivals are always a welcome diverson, finds Barry O'Leary.
Burning the olive oil in Cadiz
Seeing double in Barcelona
The pain in Spain
Reality check
Talk: Are there jobs in Spain?
 
Vietnam: Teaching with a smile
Cheap living and charming students make working in bustling Ho Chi Minh City an unexpected pleasure, reports Rebecca Norris
 
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Learning English - the Guardian Weeky newspaper's ELT section - is launching a new free email service for English language professionals around the world. The monthly TEFL Update service will combine a full lesson plan based on a news feature, plus all the ELT-related jobs and courses advertising appearing in each month's issue of Learning English. Not only will subscribers be able to access topical classroom materials in easy-to-use text format, they will also be able to respond quickly to new career opportunities.
 
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