Work / English tutoring help - do we need the TESOL certificate to work in Poland? [33]


hahaha, could come in handy if you cross over in Chorzów :)


Thank f€ck I got here just in time then


Must be, the only place I've heard of it is on this forum

Work / English tutoring help - do we need the TESOL certificate to work in Poland? [33]


but you'd get to learn to speak po slasku :P


yea, Bytom isn't far form me and I'd say you'd be the only native speaker...but yea still...he'd have to live in Bytom and I cant see Polish dancing being much of a draw in Slask.

There's some really good points to be taken on board before you come here OP, if you plan on staying longer than a year or going to teach somewhere else then do your TESOL/CELTA etc if not then it's prob not worth it just for a year and head along to the nearest call centre.

Work / English tutoring help - do we need the TESOL certificate to work in Poland? [33]


yea coz there's so many jobs in London at the moment...


c'mon Delph be nice to the person who wants to move to Poland....I'm sure he'll either get work in a call centre or in a Callan school, jesús all ya gotta do to get a job in one of them is be a native speaker and be able to read.


I have to disagree with you here man, sorry, but the bosses of these schools are usually in their 50s or 60s, they're usually like 30s or 40s and form my experience then hiring a younger person is better because an older person will be more experienced and demand a higher wage.


3 hours? a teacher gets about 40-50zl an hour lad....so it's about a half hours work

Dont be so hard on him, if he wants to come here he'll be driven and determined and he'll get work.

Work / English tutoring help - do we need the TESOL certificate to work in Poland? [33]


yea? Where....I gotta move there...unless it's Warsaw, Warsaw sucks

Work / English tutoring help - do we need the TESOL certificate to work in Poland? [33]


wouldn't bank on it fella. If you can't speak Polish then I really really doubt that'll happen.
Only people under 40 can really speak any english and of that not that many are fluent.

gettin a TEFL or similar will probably cost ya a few bob...so ya gotta ask is it really worth gettin for just a year in Poland?

If you're gonna be staying with family then just do some call centre work man coz I think you'll find it hard to get a school job without a teaching qualification

Also some schools force you to set yourself up as self-employed and they hire you on a contract....kinda outsource thing...it's a pain in the ass to do but you'll prob get some help off your missus relatives with the translation, setting up ZUS, PESEL, NIP etc...all in all it took me about 6 months to do it all...bureaucracy is nuts here.


are people in NZ giving you money to move to Poland? Wish they'd done that for me :)

I think you'll be fine anyway lad, you wont be paying rent so the only dosh you'll need is for food and beer and even if you have to do the call centre you should be ok with that, but check out some TEFL, CELTA courses just to see.....oh and some places will only hire you if you've got a CELTA.

Work / English tutoring help - do we need the TESOL certificate to work in Poland? [33]


The chap could be goin to live with some of his missus' relations. There was no mention of renting or anything like that. 1600zl a month would be alright if he wasn't payin any rent....but if he's gotta pay rent then yea OP you'd be better off trying to find work in a country where the money is better and the only country in Europe with a decent economy at the minute other than Poland is Germany.


Couldn't tell ya lad, depends on your personal situation, if you still live at home with your parents, as so many Polish people in their 20s & 30s do, then 1600zl per month is all profit aint it? Maybe that's the reason so many people here are tied to their mammy's apron strings.

Work / English tutoring help - do we need the TESOL certificate to work in Poland? [33]

probably is, but sure if he's only 22 and gonna be in Poland for a wee while it's not like he'll need a ton of cash just enough to keep him in beer and grub.

Although I know some people here who do it and then earn ok money, beat pulling pints and stacking shelves for a living

Work / English tutoring help - do we need the TESOL certificate to work in Poland? [33]

if you're only gonna be here for a while then there's hardly any point studying for a TESOL, TEFL, CELTA etc, just get a job in a call centre, it's a crap job but you're only gonna be here for a wee while and unless you actually wanna teach in other countries too then there really ain't much point handing over a fair bit of cash for a teaching qualification that you'll only use for a small while.

Life / Mobile phones for Expats in Poland - without any pesel number [6]

doubt it, you'll need proof of ID, proof of address and they'll prob do a credit check on your polish bank account.

How come you've no PESEL, I thought everyone had to have it?

Language / An email translated from Polish to English using translator [24]


Yea it prob is, google translator translate Pan as Lord sometimes

Love / What do Polish guys think of Irish girls? [187]


rosanna davison? yuk, dude the only reason she won is because she's Chris de Burgh's daughter and he threatened to sing if they didn't let her win :P

There way finer girls in Ireland than her man.
thread on an Irish forum about Irish sexiest women, bit.ly/fCCVa1

Love / Appropriate Wedding Gift for a Polish girlfriend of several months? [37]


you'd turn down a free meal?
If anyone wants to buy me dinner you can send a bank draft/postal order to
hungry irish dude,
rynek
katowice

:)

Love / Appropriate Wedding Gift for a Polish girlfriend of several months? [37]

Thats not true, dont be telling porky pies chap. Every wedding I've been to here I've seen loads of envelopes given to the wedding couple outside the chapel

Love / Appropriate Wedding Gift for a Polish girlfriend of several months? [37]

naw, I'm in Katowice. trying to engineer a move there though :)

I know the place though, friends of mine stayed there once a year or two ago and they had nothign but good things to say about the hotel

Love / Appropriate Wedding Gift for a Polish girlfriend of several months? [37]


that's a pretty cool idea, adds a nice personal touch.

Love / Appropriate Wedding Gift for a Polish girlfriend of several months? [37]

wow, yea that would be loads, she'd be delighted.....might even send you over a bottle of wedding vodka for that :)

Love / Appropriate Wedding Gift for a Polish girlfriend of several months? [37]

yea send money, I've been to a few since I moved here and it's usually what me and my mussis give for presents. Weddings are expensive and the unwritten rule is that you should give the amount that it would cost to have you there, food, vodka, B&B/hotel etc

Language / Cheap way to learn polish [9]

get some private lessons where you live man, stick an ad up on something like gumtree looking for a polish teacher close to where you live...I wish I'd learned before I moved here, actually it was a huge mistake that I didn't coz it can be pretty hard to get by without some

Law / Question about the drinking laws of Poland. [45]


wow, great source there. not

drinkin age should be lowered like in Austria & Belgium, where you can buy beer & wine at 16 and distilled booze at 18, means that young people have 2 years to build up a tolerance to the harder stuff and guess what...it works.

21 is far too old and draconian

Law / Question about the drinking laws of Poland. [45]


and your shít doesn't stink either

get over yourself, take a pint and smoke a joint, you might enjoy it and learn something about yourself

UK, Ireland / Estimated number of Poles in Ireland thought to exceed 200,000 OR over 5% of population. [200]


niiiice....you burned that troll good!

UK, Ireland / Why can't the poles speak english, if they want to work in England? [35]


I'm the opposite, I can read a page of newspaper....I can't really understand it though unless I've got a dictionary.


Naw, sure there's loads and loads of people who can't read or have a very low standard. I lived with a Spanish nanny and her spoken english was fluent but she couldn't read billboards. She just learned by speaking the language.

I wouldn't mind having that problem, Polish language breaks my heart but it's an awesome feeling to converse with someone when you consider it's such a difficult language

UK, Ireland / Why can't the poles speak english, if they want to work in England? [35]


a stroke brought on by a mugging? yea..... *cough cough bullshít cough*

Would it have negated the "mugging" if the men in question had conversed with you for a moment prior to the incident?

Porky pies, pics or GTFO.

Life / Doda's spiritual change [9]


It's a sad sad terrible day for Poland, she was the nations skanky slut and now she's just a skank without the awesomeness of slutiness.

*prays to an non-existant god for advice*

Law / Question about the drinking laws of Poland. [45]

should be easy enough to get booze, avoid pubs with monkeys on the door and sure if people ask you for ID in shops, I reckon you dont speak Polish so just nod and smile until they give up and let you pay for the booze.....actually what am I saying, nobody bats an eye about underage drinking here, you'll have no bother getting booze


Why not? There's fúck all else to do :P

Law / Thinking of opening up a Greek restaurant in Poland, bad idea or good? Jenkei [45]

There's one here in Kato too, always looks busy on the weekend but I've never been so I couldn't tell ya if it's any good or not

Travel / What's good to do in Wroclaw Poland? [34]

Nice one guys, cheers for that, looks like itll be in a fortnight maybe 3 weeks, ill. Ill sed ya a PM closer to it convex, thanks

Travel / Cost of "living" Zakopane (Tourist) [10]


They'll probable be plenty used to it lad or else you'll be far enough away form them...houses here are like Ireland, not such thing as a semi-detatched here man :) So you'll prob be able to make a right racket


coming to Poland to buy Russia vodka...be the lord harry lad, are ya cracked? well i suppose it's owned by Diageo now though aint it?

Ah you'll have a right time there anyway lad, looks like you're tons to do, have a good one

Travel / Cost of "living" Zakopane (Tourist) [10]


yea, you should check it out for sure, bring back the lads in Ireland some apple and some pear vodka....for about €2