The three types of English teacher in Thailand

Postbox letter from Simon

Once you go into your 70k+ with benefit jobs, the young teachers take it very seriously as it's their career and they want to impress. The stagnant teachers aren't really stagnating. They've just got older and want the quiet life. And the 'last-resort teachers' don't exist.

Linguistic Imperialism

Postbox letter from Frankly Speaking

Looking back upon my 10 years in Southeast Asia I can state categorically that linguistic imperialism rocks. It has allowed me to live for a decade, the first half of which was spent indulging in such hedonistic debauchery it would have made Nero blush, comfortably in Southeast Asia

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