nope.
some countries and schools require a TEFL certificate or prefer candidates with an associate's degree depending on the position, but if you want to teach English, all you need is to be a fluent English speaker.
The cost of living in most countries is around $500 USD a month for transportation, rent, utilities and food altogether; teaching English pays $2000 USD a month with zero qualifications or experience.
every month I taught English, I had a few extra months of my cost of living.
I taught English for about 7 years.
as long as you're making more than 500 USD a month remotely in any job, you can travel long-term.
Depends on what you're looking for.
For backpacking, Japan. For natural history museums, Ireland. For food, China. For cost of living, Cambodia or India.
I prefer front-facing speakers, my hardware requirements seem to be mostly taken care of with modern phones here(8gb ram, newer snapdragon, expandable storage) for $200-300.
I buy phones infrequently and haven't heard of most of these new companies so I'm curious what people recommend these days.
In this place. Likely a significant segment only use pixel's because of Graphene OS, but that may be changing soon because google is doing worthless stupid shit and making Android much less open source in practice.
I don't ever shop for hardware specifications for anything any more. I look for hardware that open source software projects support, and try to buy whatever the lead developers seem to own based on the repo history visualization in the gource package on Linux. All mobile system-on-chip (processors) and cell modems are undocumented proprietary junk and running proprietary orphaned kernels. So all available devices are just rentals at ownership prices. This is classic criminal extortion. I don't trust software from any criminal enterprise such as this, so I shop for who creates the best alternative available without criminal control as much as possible. Graphene or Lineage OS are two common options.
I can certainly agree about Google, I can't believe the poor quality of their phones/software compared to pretty much everything I've bought abroad.
and I'm on the same page as you with hardware specs these days.
and the OS options, ha.