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I am American but speak pretty good Spanish. I want to go to a Spanish-speaking country to teach English. Which country should I go to?
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>>34302269
You're not ready to teach yet. You gotta visit first before moving. Have you visited any of these countries yet? You not only need to speak "pretty good" Spanish, but you need to be fluent. You also need to be fluent in the dialect of Spanish you'd be teaching English to. Think about how there a some confusions between American English and British English. We have different words that mean different things. Same thing for... let's say, Mexican Spanish and Spain Spanish.
What you should do. Is research all of the countries a little bit and think about where you'd want to live. Go visit first to make sure. Talk with the locals. Get better at that country's dialect. You'll have to pick a country and get fluent at the dialect before you can teach anything.
Short answer for an American is that the easy mode is Mexico because there are more people who also speak English and you can get fluent in Mexican Spanish faster because of this as more people will be able to explain word differences to you on the uncommon translation issues.
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Oh, and if you have the money for travel, I suggest taking a year to visit multiple countries and check out multiple towns/cities of each one. Not just from a tourist perspective, but to find out "what is it is like living here?" Which is always hard to do no mater where you are as there are things you find out only once you do start living in a new area.