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"How much does traveling cost?"

Cost of living(rent, utilities, data/wifi, groceries) is $500 USD per month for most countries, $1000 for most others.


"Health care and insurance?"

Health care and insurance abroad are both pennies on the US dollar for the highest quality of medical care


"What about visas?"

You usually don't need them; when necessary, visas are almost all entirely online: a fifteen minute e-form and nominal fee offset in your first day by the drastically lower cost of living abroad.


"How do you make money while abroad?"

Any job that nets you $500+ a month works. There are almost 2 billion English students globally right now, so native English speakers have lucked into a guaranteed job on or offline.


"What qualifications do I need as an English teacher?"

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.



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I stopped using Duo about 5 years ago when they introduced ai and changed the learning milestones and method. it completely ruined the app for me, incredibly plodfing.

I would go back and try about once every year to see if it improved and it was still terrible until I tried learning Indonesian on it 2 weeks ago.

It feels like the old Duolingo again, and has been pretty fun this week, and I'm definitely learning Indonesian, because I'm at that language learning point people are staring at me wide-eyed and complimenting my Indonesian, confused like.

I actually had a little conversation ordering food today and was able to answer all the questions and actually understand what he was asking me.

Pretty cool.

I hope all of the languages every word into the old style and this isn't just a lucky Indonesian one-off. I used Duo to learn so many languages before it went to crap.

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