I'm considering teaching english in russia after I graduate

Of all the places you could teach English, why would you pick Russia?

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>>17482169
I like the culture, I'm really fascinated by it and I think that I would do well over there. Plus, I have a thing for slavic women.

>>17482163
Suppose you were trying to learn a foreign language. How well would you want your teacher to speak English?

>>17482163
I don't know why you'd have to know even a little Russian. I studied Russian in Russia and we weren't allowed to speak English in the classroom. As the teacher, you could do the same thing; demand that all your students speak only English in class.

>>17482163
I think it's same basic list for any language: orthography, phonetics, phonology, vocabulary, semantics, pragmatics and grammar. I think you don't need to know all of it well.
I can name 2 basic things that were confusing for me about English (and I think they are still).
1. In Russian people use 6 word cases (nominative, genetive, dative, accusative, instrumentative, prepositive) and they need to translate them to phrase in English.
2. Half of the actual time you will be explaning English tenses, some of them are not distinctive in Russian" they are written and spoken the same, and you can know with tense is that only be context.
Many people don't know even Russian well enough to use translation rules.
Anyway, even if you don't know Russian at all, I think i't absolutely possible to get a job If you know English realy good and can teach it English-speakers. As private tutor for people who know basic English and whant to learn - it will be great experience.

I don't know what career are you expecting from this job. I just looked at job offers for native-english teachers, and It's about 1000-1300USD per month (and it's good money now). If you will be renting 1-room apartment in Moscow - it's 420-600USD range. Maybe you'll get lucky and earn more.
I'm Ph.D in mechanics with 10 years experience and work as CNC-programmer/engineer, I earn 465USD/412EUR per month.

>>17483015
1-room apartment price is 90.000USD