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Is teaching English the only way for a foreigner to work in Poland? [30]
Not sure specifically about Poland, but I know that up until the mid-'90's, many countries were looking desperately for educated English native-speaker teachers as instructors. The reasons of course were that all pupils were typically subjected to years of mind-numbing classroom rote rot from non-native teachers and rarely if ever heard native US-English as taught by anyone other than Europeans who'd studied in the UK, yet often had such second-language interference, it was a surprise that the children learned correct, idiomatically natural English at all!
With the advent of the digital age over the past decade or so, English has become almost as though it were the first "second" language of the entire European continent, Poland being no exception.
When I taught English briefly in Germany, I was usually the first native English speaker most had ever encountered. As a result, many had to unlearn the mistakes handed down to them by their native German-born and educated English teachers:-)
