:D as if a youth with just a high school degree could ever afford to start an own school :D
but i understand that you'd need to have gone to a university to be able to work as a teacher, because you need to know so much more than just the language, like english history and poetry..
however.. I think that one can always manage somehow to get work if you let your voice be heard and ask around. I mean like a private tutor or something.

You are very correct. Determination will get you a lot farther in life than a sheet of paper.

hope you aint being sarcastic :D

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Native speakers.. what if you was raised in an english speaking country.. for a long period of time? good language skills over nativity.. or nativity over good langauge skills?

most of the time its nativity over good language skills.

I even encountered, that accent is more important than grammatical structure :D

Now see, that is really disheartening for me to hear. I'm a non-native speaker, however I've completed all of my university education (BA and MA) in the UK and, frankly, my English is better than that of the average native speaker. The only problem is my rather non-standard accent, which is somewhere mid-way between northern English and American.

But I really want to go to Japan! I even have a TEFL qualification from a leading university! Does anyone know of any language schools in Japan that might accept me anyway?

~annelie

don't be disheartened annelie. you have a certification and you studied in UK that's an advantage. Although English is the co-official language of my country, Japanese seems not to know that and I don't have any certifications, cause I hate taking them :D

Try applying for YMCA, I know for a fact that they accept applicants with proper teaching background than just accent.You can also try GABA.

goodluck

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