# Czech Republic won't let native anglophones teach English?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 30, 2009, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/czech-republic-wont-let-native-anglophones-teach-english/483762 "2009-01-30T19:24:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cat\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/96bed5/32.png) [@Cat\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Jones)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/czech-republic-wont-let-native-anglophones-teach-english/483762/21 "2009-01-31T09:46:03Z")

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As **pulykamell** says most EFL teachers don’t speak the local language - at least initially. The only people I knew who spoke Estonian back then were “returnees” that’s to say Canadian or American Estonians whose parents had kept the langauge up at home.

If you have a qualification you know techniques which should mean you can teach English to speakers of any language. Again within the state education system things are different - you need a good degree of fluency in the local language in order to complete the paperwork, interact with colleagues and parents etc.

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**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/czech-republic-wont-let-native-anglophones-teach-english/483762/22 "2009-01-31T11:54:54Z")

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Sailor, the skills required for spoken and written language are rather different.

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