19K sounds like bugger all too.
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That's what I thought. Would be interesting to know if they are paying in sterling or chinese yuan and where it's based (although it says all over China). I'm no expert, but China has cities of different tiers paying different salaries. You should earn far more in a Tier 1 city like Beijing than others.
Strange it hasn't mentioned the fairly considerable language barrier too.
I am currently looking for people to work in Beijing and offering 10 USD an hour, only about 25 hours a month though. Also you need to speak either Vietnamese, Thai or Malay.
Qualified translators in Beijing get about 15 USD an hour in our company, no idea what benefits they get with that.
slightly off thread....
my kids have started to learn mandarin and one of the first things they have learned is what their name in mandarin is. now call me old fashioned but I thought your name was your name, but apparently when you speak in Mandarin it is something else altogether.
Does anyone know why this is the case?
It's tondo with the difficulty in translation between letter based and pictographs like in Chinese
I think they try to find a combination of Chinese characters that sound vaguely similar to the western name but also have the kind of Chinese characters that our would want in your name.
I.e. if there's a character for a steaming pile of manure then they would avoid using that one.
They seem to love their word-play over there too.
I'm not sure that's entirely right. It's not really a 'here' or 'there' issue as if you're teaching English as a second/foreign language then the methods will be similar whether it's in London or China.
If you mean 'here', as in how we were taught French at school, then I can see your point. Teaching as a foreign language is more about speaking and real practice than doing page 15 of Tricolore. But it's not really from scratch as almost everyone who wants to learn English has some knowledge, even if its as basic as hello and one two three. Absolute beginners are very rare.