Why I Chose to TEACH ENGLISH IN TAIWAN 🇹🇼 and NOT Japan, South Korea, Vietnam or China 

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Welcome to Taiwan 🇹🇼. Nice visuals. “Rooster why you gotta start”

台灣棒棒的喔！加油！我很喜歡住這裡喔🇹🇼🇹🇼🇹🇼

I taught in South Korea for a year,,no complaints about the weather ('m from Texas)..it did get cold. some of the kids I taught were privileged assholes (private english school). I loved the people and the food. Koreans are some of the nicest people in the world.

As a Vietnamese who have ever lived in Taiwan and even some European countries such as Germany or Finland, I can say that the life in Taiwan is pretty comfortable and quite peaceful and it remains one of the most worth-living countries in my lists. I think I did realize when I was there is people in Taiwan are friendly (ngl, I am talking as an experiencer not foreigner saying initial thoughts or some shits). Taiwanese people in general can not communicate via English, but you actually learn some counting words (like from 1 to 100 which would enable you to do your shopping) and it's quite simple. I just went to the food vendors, pointed at what i want (normally i ticked randomly since I thought i could eat them all) and payed when i was there. Pretty simple, and I avoid talking bcz I couldnot understand anything. Compared to Vietnam, i assume those 2 countries are quite similar. But in Taiwan, somehow the procedures for foreigners from Europe or North America are easier. Moreover, either the low population or the high intellectuality/awareness, the life in Taiwan seems to be safer. Ofc Vietnam is safe but that's what i feel about Taiwan. AND one more thing worth mentioning here is the public transportation. It's optimized pretty much. Except the HSR, with just an easycard, you can literally go everywhere without booking transports in advance. On contrary, Vietnam has many beautiful places in terms of nature, for you to explore and enjoy due to its special favors of Nature. Otherwise, those 2 countries are not much different and you can explore a lot of things. Have fun! :)

Kayla, if you are still in Taiwan, I’d strongly recommend you to try more of its food there. The food there would definitely rival food you would get in Vietnam, if not better! 金門 is a very snapshot of what Taiwan has to offer. Happy stay. Taiwan is pleased to having you❣️台灣歡迎妳的到來和停留 🍎

您的決定，很正確，請續加油！

看到最後,你因為煙火而大吼~讓我笑出來了! (雞啼和煙火聲是很棒的背景音效~~~)

great vid, it's so nice to see you you are happy to stay here in Taiwan Kinmen girl kayla.

Welcome to Taiwan! It’s great to have you, and hope you will great time in Taiwan, Kayla❤️

加油加油~繼續朝短期目標1萬訂閱邁進吧~快達成了~看著您的成長~也謝謝您對這裡的厚愛~

Haha.. love your smile and your real reactions with unexpected scenery.

好酷，，留在亞洲諾曼地金門，，體驗獨特的戰地文化，，超酷的

Thank you for this very informative video Kayla~

謝謝您愛台灣，台灣也感謝有您！

You have right decision, and there are so many opinions as I have seen . Please enjoy your stay in Taiwan, and suggest to try to get a golden card to stay longer as you like .

About weather ... as a Taiwanese, I can say they pretty much omitted the typhoon and the earthquake from the menu lol! But if you're in Jinmen, it is still pretty cold. And its not dry cold, its humid cold. The humidity in the air during winter and strong winds makes it a pretty bone biting chilly winter!

恭喜Kayla 快破1萬訂閱量了！

Love this content, Kayla. 😍

It's really lovely that you chose Taiwan as your first step and I'm sure that every country has something you will love or be worth to visit. However, welcome to Taiwan and hope you enjoy your life in 金門 :))

Definitely made a good choice for you!

really interesting footage, welcome to Taiwan, hope you have tried all kinds of Taiwanese cuisine.

You made a right decision with your language qualification and ability.

Very interesting video. I had to go through the same thought process...As a RU-vidr it was also important to me to be able to stay online and continue my RU-vid channel. I chose Songdo, South Korea for 1 year and after that I came to Beijing. I have been in Beijing for 4 years now. Best decision ever. As a teacher with a teaching degree in English, Geography and Music...the salaries are really good. I am currently working at a American Primary School and their salaries for a normal English Homeroom teacher are on the same level as what a principal makes back in my country of South Africa. I also want to visit Taiwan one day!! Subbed.

There are always many factors to consider on the list when coming to a decision. Sometimes you just have to go for the decision and then know the result when times come. It's good that you ended up in Taiwan, especially the beautiful place, Kinmen. An adventure going abroad in early stage of life would probably be a fantastic gift you gave yourself. Nothing venture, nothing gain. You must have fruitful experience during your stay overseas. Cheers!

You can maybe do an interim in China for a few month in Southern China. It's very close and you can see the shared heritage with Taiwan (Vietnam and China have also shared heritage).

In fact, Kinmen is one of the coldest cities in Taiwan, it's around 5°C from December to January, with rain; We usually have no central heating, but maybe you can buy a heater and some hand warmers(uneasily be recycled)

Best opening ever

I'm currently teaching in South Korea right now and I'm also interested in going to Taiwan. To answer your question about whether your ideas are true, I have obviously been to Korea lol and I would say it is definitely cold here during most of the year. I haven't visited Japan or China but I have been to Vietnam and while I love the bustle of it, it is extremely hot and I feel like living there permanently in that type of heat would make me uncomfortable. Thanks for the video, I really enjoyed it :)

Wish u happy everyday

Plot twist: rooster is a paid actor for cooler intro.

Thanks for loving and stying in Taiwan

As a native Taiwanese, I agree most of what you mentioned in this video except one thing: there is no way Vietnam food is bettrr than Taiwan food.🤣

我觉得是人情味占了很大的因素，台湾人较热情友善很愿意帮助国外的朋友。 最近10多年很多资讯都推廣台湾文化，很多国外朋友都有好的称赞。

I lived in China for 3 years and I intended to go back, but ya know, COVID! So now I'm reassessing my next move and considering Taiwan for various reasons.

Because you are smart ☺️

來給金門女孩按讚！

So, I taught for over a year in Korea, and let me tell ya, it is extremely stressful. Which is why I am now looking at Taiwan. 😁

Welcome to Taiwan 😊

最後面那個firework那裡讓我大笑XD 但其實妳麥克風收音聽不太出來。 （I laugh out loud when you yelled at the fireworks while you were saying how grateful you are in Taiwan 😂 but actually your microphone didn’t receive much of the noice from that. )

What you think potential English teachers should know about Taiwan? 您想讓想在國外教英語的外國人了解台灣嗎？

I like your video very much.

This is Kingmen, the frontier island of Taiwan, and the national Kingmen park has many old buildings.

You make the decision based on what you want.

金門女孩😊 因為你是一個很獨特的人 💯對台灣跟金門很有感情😇 我支持你🙋‍♂️給你一個讚👍👌

I lived in Taiwan was awesome! Now i dont know wether to come back or go Vietnam, Cambodia or japan arghhh Omg it was so clean in Kaohsiung and Taipei they picked the litter literally everyday, back in the uk its only once a week.

If you ever look into teaching somewhere else I’d highly recommend Vietnam. The weather it really depends on where you are. Hanoi is unbearably hot in the summer (particularly July) and cold in the winter (but not freezing). I liked the weather there with the exception of those summer months. Pre covid people would just fly to Thailand for the weekend to re enter the country on business visas after finding employment but it may not work that way post covid. You are right about the litter, I found Taiwan so much cleaner when I visited! Vietnam is a fabulous country though and the people are very friendly. It’s a cool place to be an expat 🇻🇳

Heya, nice to see one of your videos. I started asking the real questions in the search bar.... aaaand I ended up here. Given the current situation, I'm waiting for the borders to open. I agree with what you've said and here's one question I have: The bigger problem right now is fully explaining my decision of leaving (England) and trying to see if I could live in Taiwan. Are there any tips you could provide if you have any? (It was so much easier when I left my home country the first time, no idea why it is so that(aa)t hard now - with the family I mean) I know family differs everywhere you go but anything helps. Keep up the awesome work.

...connection with this little island... STOP THE FIREWORKS! That is soooo funny.

I would really love to teach in Taiwan! I'm currently teaching English here in Vietnam. I'm looking forward for my next country to teach English. Thinking about Japan or Korea. But I might try applying in Taiwan too. As I used to live here for 7 years. Why not try to go back again. Thanks for the info.

I’m thinking about potentially teaching English after I graduate college, in large part so that I can learn Chinese much quicker. How was your experience learning Chinese and do you think it’s reasonable to become very proficient in the language through living in Taiwan and teaching English for a year?

I like the animal background music haha

I was going to teach in Vietnam, but then I found out that they won't let you send your money back to your home country. You have to have a good reason and when you say that you are sending it to your parents as a gift or loan or sending it to your own bank account and they still say NO. I will continue applying here in Cambodia for now, since it is very easy to send your money back to your home country if you find a job.

GOOD CHOICE

I have spent one month in Taiwan 🇹🇼❤️ as a French tourist 🇫🇷🗼and I think that the quality of life in Taiwan is better than in France. If I was able to create my own business in Taiwan I would live here permanently.

金門是野鳥的天堂，尤其是冬季，你長期在金門，我覺得有機會不妨關注一下這方面的消息喔！一些國外的鳥友，會特別到台灣找特有種。

It might be also worth noting that South Korea does not do criminal record checks for job purposes. So if you are from the UK which by law requires criminal records checks in order to teach in the UK - your home career in teaching may be blocked!

4:47 That giant replica of artillery shell erected in commemoration of Victory of 823 Bombardment if it were a real thing, it would be the size similar to cannon shell of the infamous Paris Gun which weighted 1,350 tonnes with its 7-tonne explosive shell that could penetrate even the concrete bunker built in WW2 era on France's Máginot Lìne. Now the development of self-guided precision missile has rendered them obsolete. But we still keep some in place due to low-cost production and maintenance. The shorter range Howitzer ones. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-As3NzDQknVc.htmlm27s

很喜歡妳的視頻！加油！快1萬訂閱了！💪 在這個全球受到疫情衝擊下，台灣或許能給妳更多自由去探索不同的生活體驗！♥

Hi Kayla, did you get a 90 day tourist visa to Taiwan and if so how easy was it to change it to a "work visa" once you got a job? And btw was it easy to find a job once you were there? TIA

You are very self aware.

妳的選擇百分之百正確，金門是最安全的，我支持妳！！！

Hey...your video is really helpful....i am looking for pre school teacher but i don't have any proficiency certificate in English...is IELTS test result work instead of that..?

I've been teaching in Vietnam for 1 and 1/2 years. It's pretty awesome I have lots of extra money

Believe you ,your choice is right

不受控的啼叫聲（笑

請問金門女孩想去下一個國家是哪裡？要多吃鳳梨喔（當季水果），已訂閱

YOU'R SO GOOD , teach english in here.

越南光用想的就知道能取得比較多的香料 台灣的香料多半是罐裝的，外面的食物又很看人的口味，想想也是理所當然

웃는 모습이 정말 예쁘세요~ 울 오빠 소개해 주고 싶네요. 화가에요. 낭만이 넘쳐나요~

日本社會在很多方面仍相當保守，比方他們的溫泉設施普遍拒絕刺青者進入。

歡迎來台灣

I‘m interested to know if you still feel that Vietnamese food tastes better than Taiwanese food after staying in Taiwan? Or was this the thought when you first researched on where to go.

1:44 I didn't know conformative was an actual word, until I looked it up. Shouldn't it be conformist though? Lao shi, what's the difference between the two?

Hi Kayla, can I ask if you worked at Shane English School? Will you come back?

Cute people loves Taiwan~

👍👏👍

I've been trying to manifest Taiwan into my life for years now! 😍 I have lived in both Japan and South Korea, and I'll probably make videos about my experiences but one point for each is that I don't like how intense Japanese work culture is; and you can't say anything negative about South Korea otherwise the Knetizens and Koreaboos will eat you alive 😶...😬

I love Taiwan also

還真厲害 3. 2. 1. 雞叫聲. 妳們是商量好的嗎. 🤝 👍 妳所住的金門曾經有駐紮12萬精兵. 如果妳那時候來一定很樂鬧.😃😄😆😁

Food is definitely better in Taiwan. Cleaner and safer too but I'll let you decide if you ever get to Vietnam.

其實kayla不用選擇阿，全都要不是更好XD，一個一個環境都去走走看看。

But in the winter, Jinmen is very cold, I think

it's okay, I'm Taiwanese but I absolutely love Vietnamese food XD

雞叫聲為你打氣，開啟美好的一天

好奇不覺得台灣的冬天冷嗎?這裡沒有其他地方那麼周全的暖氣系統

Rooster provides you a ending call

Japan, Korea and Vietnam are all awesome. However, Taiwan is super awesome. You made a good choice.

Hi ,how about your job？How long can stay 金門？

妳的321我重播10次以上... XD

KAYLA 安安 🤩🤩妳不會講中文嗎?

Yous seem really shalllow in your assesment.

As a youtuber have you thought about China's plan to reunify with Taiwan? Not trying to be rude, I just want to hear your perspective on it.

Africa is a good choice I love it there but Japan has a LOT of snow so good call.

I love Taiwan 🇹🇼🇹🇼🇹🇼😽😽😽

What about Thailand?

1:42

如果妳能定居下來並成為金門縣民，就能享有金門的福利，而其福利制度是全國最好的

Do you work with black and Asian teachers who have UK, Australian, US, etc. accents?

苦笑...我明白愛台灣不見得賺大錢，這讓我更有興趣看視頻了😯