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Private English Lessons by Experienced Professional Teacher in Poland (Warsaw) [107]
I notice that 98% of the above messages are pure theory and they are not even from teachers and/or people living in Poland. However the reality does not change. Most ESL (just to mention English) teaching jobs in Warsaw (since we are talking about Warsaw) are held by native speakers of English and nobody can deny it. People pay and therefore want the real thing. They don't want something looking like English, they want real English. They want to be able to communicate in business situations and in daily life in native environments.
Non natives, UNLESS years of living in countries in which target language is spoken, can only teach theory, they can only teach book English and everybody knows that there is a huge difference between language in books and language actually spoken by its natives. Learning English (for instance) is learning a living language not Learning latin or ancient greek and as a result theory is not enough. Non natives, UNLESS years of living abroad, don't have proper pronounciation, have a very limited vocabulary, don't know idioms, don't know everyday culture ... According to what she writes, OP has no personal extensive foreign experience.
QUALIFIED/EXPERIENCED NATIVE teachers can teach both theory and pratice.
I have met a few teachers of English from Ukraine and Bulgaria at some cheap private bull sh... schools in Warsaw but this was so only because the pay and conditions were so lousy that they could not hire Britons, Americans, Australians, Canadians, .... I have friends whose kids go to a very expensive private elementary school in Warsaw which last school year hired someone from ... Belarus to teach English. All parents complained and the school gave up.
We don't live in Alice in Wonderland and have to face reality and adjust to it. In Warsaw and other cities in Poland, there are tons of native speakers of English, mainy of them are qualified and experienced (it is high time to stop with the (stupid) cliché of the illiterate alcoolic backpacker teacher (there are fewer and fewer of them, and when they are, they work in lousy small shi3333holes for a few coins)) and as a result, qualified and experienced native teachers always have the best jobs. (normal).
In Poland there are quite a few foreigners who speak good or even great Polish but nevetheless, all Polish courses are taught by Poles. You'll never see someone from Belgium, Greece, Paraguay, Japan or New Guinea teaching Polish in Poland. So why should it be normal for a Ukrainian/Russian to teach English in Poland?
OP should concentrate on Russian clientèle.
If I wanted to learn let's say Japanese, I would take a QUALIFIED EXPERIENCED NATIVE rather than someone from Spain or Denmark or wherever. If I wanted to learn how to play the violin, I would not hire a piano teacher ...
Well, no need to go around and around a situation that shall not change. The OP has trouble to find work because she is not a native, now she says she has a thick accent, and also because she cannot offer students REAL English.
Sorry I'm too old to believe in Santa Claus and I know that life is not easy, that it is not always fair but in order to make it, I do my best to adjust to it. The OP does not want to adjust to reality and as a result she does not have enough work.
PS: I notice that NOBODY is able to give her tips to find work.
