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VIPKID Review

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VIPKid Company VIPkid has been changing the Chinese ESL landscape since 2013 with their comprehensive virtual learning environment (VLE).  Working as a contractor on their platform has been a large improvement over working for other, physical training centers in mainland China.  They offer self-managed working hours, 65,000 teachers teaching 500,000+ Chinese kids, and a platform designed to make the nitty-gritty of scheduling classes and managing the paperwork as easy as possible for both the teacher and the company. There are no obstacles to teaching as many classes as a teacher wishes to schedule, between 7:30PM and 8:00AM EST (8:30AM and…

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PalFish – beautiful in its simplicity.

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PalFish offers two different sections. ‘Free Talk’ and Official Kids Course (OKC). What is free talk? Free talk is exactly as it sounds. You get paid for just chatting to Chinese ‘students’ online. It looks like a couple of online companies such as DaDa and First Future have adopted the name ‘Free Talk’ because of its success. However, make no mistake, PalFish is the original and the real deal. As the original, PalFish is of course beautiful in its simplicity. For free talk it’s literally a question of registering with the app, pushing the ‘Start Tutoring’ button and waiting for…

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Class screenshot at Pathways English on laptop

Pathways English. My online school review

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If you want to succeed in the online teaching industry, you need be working for more than one company. My next company is my favorite. This company is called Beijing Pathways English. This company is for people with experience working in the ESL industry, online or live classroom experience. Why? Because this style of teaching requires you to teach Chinese children in their school setting. Let me dive a little deeper into the company and my experience with them. Who is Pathways English? Pathways English is an online English education company located in Beijing. We have a reading oriented curriculum…

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TEFL teacher Harry in Changzhou

My experience teaching English at First Leap Changzhou

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Before China I was 20 when I decided to teach English abroad. I wanted to see the world, save some money, and do something fresh and exciting, hopefully in a continent I had never visited. I assumed for three years that I would go to Japan, being the first country I learned you could teach English in, but upon learning of Japan’s expensiveness and China’s cheapness, let alone the salary, cost of living, and potential savings of China, I decided to switch countries, and I wound up living in the Jiangsu province, famously containing Nanjing and Shanghai, in the small…

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