
{"id":73662,"date":"2022-05-16T11:27:29","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T11:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tefl.ie\/?p=73662"},"modified":"2026-01-28T07:05:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T07:05:33","slug":"tefl-teaching-in-vietnam-aoifes-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tefl.ie\/gb\/tefl-teaching-in-vietnam-aoifes-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"TEFL teaching in Vietnam: Aoife&#8217;s Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Teaching English in Vietnam: Aoife\u2019s TEFL Experience<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><b>1. Tell us more about yourself? What\u2019s your background?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019m from Clondalkin in Dublin and graduated with a degree in Analytical Science from DCU in 2018. After my final exams, I went on a six week trip around South East Asia and had an absolute blast! There was no question that I\u2019d be going back before long. When I got home, I started a job in a big pharmaceutical company, which I really enjoyed, but my mind was only on travelling, so I decided to leave the job after a year and a half and go back to Asia, teaching English in Vietnam. Best decision I\u2019ve ever made!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>2. You\u2019re currently teaching abroad. Awesome! Tell us about your unique journey to working abroad as a teacher\u2014including your TEFL course experience.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Teaching was always on my mind as a career option and I had been considering doing a master&#8217;s to teach secondary school science but I had no teaching experience whatsoever. When I found the internship programme it just seemed ideal for me, I could get some teaching experience while also getting to live abroad and experience a totally new culture. The TEFL itself went pretty smoothly. Because it was online I could just do it at my own pace and do it on my days off from work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> When I first came over to Vietnam, the internship placed me in a language centre in Hanoi. I lived right next to it with two other girls from the internship and we all ended up staying at that job after the internship had ended. Last September I was offered a job teaching Science through English in a secondary school in Vietnam to prepare the students for their iGCSE which my TEFL certificate along with my degree qualified me for. I\u2019m really enjoying that although I do sometimes miss teaching the kindergarten levels their ABCs in the language centre!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tefl.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/CAE868D3-4600-4AAB-ACEF-5F7B3C19066B.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-73794\" src=\"https:\/\/tefl.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/CAE868D3-4600-4AAB-ACEF-5F7B3C19066B.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tefl.ie\/gb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/CAE868D3-4600-4AAB-ACEF-5F7B3C19066B.png 800w, https:\/\/tefl.ie\/gb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/CAE868D3-4600-4AAB-ACEF-5F7B3C19066B-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/tefl.ie\/gb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/CAE868D3-4600-4AAB-ACEF-5F7B3C19066B-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/tefl.ie\/gb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/CAE868D3-4600-4AAB-ACEF-5F7B3C19066B-600x450.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>3. Would you recommend learning a small bit of Vietnamese before the big move?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I think if you\u2019re planning on learning Vietnamese it\u2019s better to wait until you get here. I tried to learn a few phrases<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and stuff <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">but the tones and pronunciation were so difficult, that I don&#8217;t think anyone could actually understand me! It\u2019s much better to have a native speaker teaching you face to face. I got a lot of very blank looks and also a few laughs, to begin with, but the Vietnamese people do really love the effort. It\u2019s such a novelty for them to hear a Western person speaking their language. My students think it\u2019s the funniest thing ever when I come out with a new phrase.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>4<\/b><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;\">\u00a0<\/span><b style=\"font-style: inherit;\">.What was it like living in Vietnam during the pandemic and how did it affect your teaching?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I came in January 2020 so literally weeks before the pandemic hit. Vietnam closed its borders really quickly and we just did a 3-week lockdown in April. Apart from that, 2020 in Vietnam was pretty normal. Because the borders were closed we ended up seeing so much of Vietnam that year that we probably wouldn\u2019t have seen otherwise. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most of my friends had been intending to leave after the internship and either go home or travel but because things were so good here and home was in lockdown we all ended up staying on and we grew so close in that time. 2021 brought a few challenges when the Delta variant hit and we had to teach online and isolate. Online teaching really wasn\u2019t my favourite thing, especially with the older kids who just turned their cameras and mics off. The only positive was that I didn&#8217;t have to battle with the Hanoi traffic every day.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tefl.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/18E31344-F92C-4AFE-AD9E-6665B3CBD427.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-73795\" src=\"https:\/\/tefl.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/18E31344-F92C-4AFE-AD9E-6665B3CBD427.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tefl.ie\/gb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/18E31344-F92C-4AFE-AD9E-6665B3CBD427.png 800w, https:\/\/tefl.ie\/gb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/18E31344-F92C-4AFE-AD9E-6665B3CBD427-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/tefl.ie\/gb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/18E31344-F92C-4AFE-AD9E-6665B3CBD427-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/tefl.ie\/gb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/18E31344-F92C-4AFE-AD9E-6665B3CBD427-600x450.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>5. What surprised you the most about teaching in Vietnam? Was there anything you found particularly challenging or easier than you expected? Are costs of living expensive?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The students here are given a lot more freedom in school, they have way fewer rules than I did but are also pretty well behaved on the whole. Education is taken very seriously here. The school system goes from primary, then to secondary and then to high school for the last 3 years. My grade 9 kids are only 14\/15 but they\u2019re under a huge amount of pressure to get into top high schools so they can go to a good University. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I try to be understanding of that because they\u2019ll often come in exhausted after staying up until 2 am studying. The costs of living are ridiculously cheap. I rent a serviced apartment with my friend in the main ex-pat area with 2x ensuite bedrooms and we pay $250 a month each. I really like the local food and a bowl of Pho or a Banh Mi usually costs like $1-2. It\u2019s a great place to come if you need to build up some savings before moving on to somewhere more expensive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>6. What\u2019s one thing you\u2019d say you\u2019ve learnt about yourself while teaching abroad?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019ve learnt that I can drive a motorbike! This was a huge fear of mine when I first came and it took me a week before I\u2019d even get on the back of someone else&#8217;s. Now I\u2019ve got my own bike and I truly believe that it\u2019s the best way to get around the city.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tefl.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/21A85561-18A2-4475-BAB6-A3789FC9E0ED.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-73796\" src=\"https:\/\/tefl.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/21A85561-18A2-4475-BAB6-A3789FC9E0ED.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tefl.ie\/gb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/21A85561-18A2-4475-BAB6-A3789FC9E0ED.png 750w, https:\/\/tefl.ie\/gb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/21A85561-18A2-4475-BAB6-A3789FC9E0ED-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/tefl.ie\/gb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/21A85561-18A2-4475-BAB6-A3789FC9E0ED-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/tefl.ie\/gb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/21A85561-18A2-4475-BAB6-A3789FC9E0ED-600x600.png 600w, https:\/\/tefl.ie\/gb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/21A85561-18A2-4475-BAB6-A3789FC9E0ED-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>7. What advice do you have for someone considering teaching in Vietnam?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don\u2019t worry about coming alone, even if you&#8217;re not doing the internship there are just so many other people here in the same boat. Everyone is away from their family and friends so naturally, they\u2019re a lot more open to meeting new people and it really is like a little community. Definitely get to know the ex-pat areas and join some Facebook groups to see different events and stuff. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also, be prepared for cultural differences in the workplace. They tend to be a lot more disorganised about things and communication is definitely not their strong point (language barrier aside). A lot of people think it\u2019s just their school but after talking to a lot of other teachers, it just seems to be the case everywhere. As frustrating as it can be, it\u2019s just their way of doing things and part of the experience!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>8. How did you find the internship experience? Would you recommend this internship to others?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The internship was great for me, I definitely recommend it! It really helped to have that support, especially in the first few weeks. I felt a lot less nervous about coming over knowing that I had a job and accommodation sorted. The visa and work permit process seemed impossible to navigate but thankfully because I was on the internship I got a lot of help with all of that. The first week was so fun. The 120 teachers on the internship all stayed in a big hotel together before moving into our accommodation. That&#8217;s where I met all of the people that I\u2019m still friends with today!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tefl.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/EE5B0E7D-CB1A-4D5F-A0E1-210CDC6A4C03.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-73797\" src=\"https:\/\/tefl.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/EE5B0E7D-CB1A-4D5F-A0E1-210CDC6A4C03.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tefl.ie\/gb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/EE5B0E7D-CB1A-4D5F-A0E1-210CDC6A4C03.png 750w, https:\/\/tefl.ie\/gb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/EE5B0E7D-CB1A-4D5F-A0E1-210CDC6A4C03-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/tefl.ie\/gb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/EE5B0E7D-CB1A-4D5F-A0E1-210CDC6A4C03-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/tefl.ie\/gb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/EE5B0E7D-CB1A-4D5F-A0E1-210CDC6A4C03-600x600.png 600w, https:\/\/tefl.ie\/gb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/EE5B0E7D-CB1A-4D5F-A0E1-210CDC6A4C03-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>9. Will you stay longer in Vietnam or are you planning to travel elsewhere and relocate?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now that the borders are finally open I\u2019m planning on visiting a few new countries this summer. I\u2019m going home to Ireland after that to see my family and friends again after two and a half years. I\u2019m not planning on staying home for too long though as I really enjoyed living abroad so I\u2019d like to move away again soon and maybe try a new continent!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teaching English in Vietnam: Aoife\u2019s TEFL Experience 1. Tell us more about yourself? What\u2019s your background? 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