I taught English in Brazil. I got a TEFL certificate through Bridge-Linguatec. If you are going to teach, I cannot say enough good things about Bridge. It was 4

I taught English in Brazil. I got a TEFL certificate through Bridge-Linguatec. If you are going to teach, I cannot say enough good things about Bridge. It was 40hrs/week for 1 month in Rio De Janeiro. I've seen people attempt and teach English without a TEFL and they dont do a good job. Also immersion is the best way to teach so you do not need to speak the local language. It will be hard to support yourself by teaching. Through a private company you will earn ~11USD/hr, but they dont pay for transportation time or cost, or the time it takes to create the lesson plan. So the actual figure ends up being more like 8.50USD/2 hours. You can do much better through private lessons (up to 40usd/hr) but they are hard to get - you usually find your privates by teaching through a company and stealing their clients. (They pay the company about R$75/hr, so if you are good you can convince them to drop the company and pay you R$50-R$60/hr - which is about 25usd-30usd) I went down there by myself, without speaking the language or knowing a single person and 6 months later I had a big social circle and was somewhat of a group organizer/leader. It was easily the best 6 months of my life and I realized if I can flourish in Rio De Janeiro - one of the most dangerous cities in the world - without knowing the language, or knowing a single person, I can do anything I want.