Can I really make a decent living teaching English in Brazil?

Question

This is really two questions:

1. Can I make enough money teaching English in Brazil to have a decent standard of living?

2. How do I go about finding a job teaching English in Brazil?

Answer 1

Have lived in Brazil for 28 years and had friends who taught English. Generally they had another source of income as well, that is, if it was a couple, one taught English and the other did something else. To live off English teaching alone would be very difficult. Brazil has become more expensive these days and rent, gasoline, air fares are all quite high. Think before you jump in.

Answer 2

I live in Brazil.

To get a job teaching English here is very easy, but you must know also Portuguese.

About the money, I think it is according the kind of city. The small cities pay less money but you spend less, and big cities is the opposite.

Answer 3

Just to give you an example:

My wife taught English in Brazil for almost 2 years. At first, she worked for English schools, where it is easy to find jobs, being a native English speaker. You can make about R$ 10.00- R$12.00 an hour in a small town, where cost of living is not high. Working in a big city might get you double, tough, of course, you'll spend more to live. Now, we rented an apartment, where she gave out classes to groups of 3-6 people, twice a week. She made average R$ 35.00 an hour, which is over US$17.00, under the table, which basically represents over US$ 25.00 if you had to pay taxes on it. We have been back to Boston for 4 years and she has never made that kind of money up here, needless to say that we spent around US$ 400.00 a month to live in Brazil and it takes us around US$ 2500.00 monthly to live here. We have plans to move back soon! I hope it helps you!

Look for these schools:

FISK, CCAA, Wizard and Quality.

Answer 4

Go to Brazil, find a place to live and work, put an advert in the local papers, "English lessons by native speaker" 10 real an hour, you get lots of phone calls from women saying I want some lessons, any type!

Answer 5

THE PEOPLE LOOK FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

Answer 6

My wife wants to move back to Brasil one day & this is about the only option open to me.  She tells me that as a native speaker you can earn a lot more than a Brasilian who had learnt English as native speakers are in high demand.  She says that if you can arrange private lessons you'll be onto a winner.  Although I love Brasil a lot though (I regard it as my second home) there are loads of things that I can do without there like the bureaucracy.

Answer 7

private language schools will pay you about R$25/hour here in minas gerais. if you are willing to work full-time - which can be very tiring, but that´s up to you - you can make around $1500 a month and live pretty decently.

try numberone.com.br, it has schools all over brazil, and you get proper training and support.