{"id":452,"date":"2004-09-09T22:38:31","date_gmt":"2004-09-10T03:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2004\/09\/09\/teaching-english-in-saudi-arabia\/"},"modified":"2004-09-09T22:38:31","modified_gmt":"2004-09-10T03:38:31","slug":"teaching-english-in-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2004\/09\/09\/teaching-english-in-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching English in Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a414'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n I&#8217;m curious about life for foreigners in the Middle East.  From a western<br \/>\n perspective it currently is a place of turmoil, a clash between Islam and<br \/>\n the West, uprisings, terrorist acts, and many other things.  However, I&#8217;m<br \/>\n curious about the life of an expatriate there.   I think the first idea<br \/>\n most people would think is, &#8220;They&#8217;re crazy for wanting to live there&#8221; which<br \/>\n isn&#8217;t hard to see given the amount of violence in the area that can be<br \/>\n easily directed to an expat.  However, one ESL teacher was kind enough<br \/>\n to write his thoughts on teaching English in Saudi Arabia during 2003. Here<br \/>\n are some choice snippets:\n <\/p>\n<p>\n <em><br \/>\n There is still a big demand for English tuition in  Saudi Arabia. One reason for this is the country&#8217;s high unemployment rate.<\/p>\n<p> Many of the English teachers in Saudi  learn Arabic. For learners of Arabic the alphabet  is the most difficult part. However, many Arabic words  are related to Spanish so a knowledge of that language  is an advantage in the acquisition of vocabulary.<br \/>\n <\/em>\n <\/p>\n<p>\n Very fascinating and a nice break from the news you&#8217;ll get on the Middle<br \/>\n East which focuses mainly on the current tensions there.<br \/>\n <br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onestopenglish.com\/ProfessionalSupport\/Travellog\/teaching_english_saudiArabia.htm\">Read it yourself<\/a>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m curious about life for foreigners in the Middle East. From a western perspective it currently is a place of turmoil, a clash between Islam and the West, uprisings, terrorist acts, and many other things. However, I&#8217;m curious about the life of an expatriate there. I think the first idea most people would think is, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":704,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tagme"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}