Teaching English and Expat Life in Madrid, Spain

Welcome to the glamourous world of ESL! Spain is a beautiful country, Madrid is a great city to live in, and teaching English is one of the best ways that an American or other English speaker can see it all!

I have just written an ebook that will clear up all your doubts about teaching English in Madrid. Madrid: The Guide to Teaching English and Expat Life is available through Amazon Kindle or in a pdf if you email me! The price is just $4.95, a great deal considering the peace of mind and inspiration it will give you.

The book goes through all the common questions that people want to answer before coming to live in Spain. Visas, banking, how to find a flat, how to find a job, how to keep your job once you have it, cost of living issues, non-native teachers, social life and love.

I wish I had had a book like this when I was coming to Spain! But that was years ago, and we weren’t really in the age of information back then. I ended up reading George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia as preparation. A great book, but Spanish Civil War adventures that ended in 1939 don’t have much to do with expat life in 2011!

Anyway, for a lot of people, life in Spain is a bit difficult these days, with the economic crisis and the real estate bubble. The unemployment rate has been hovering above 20% for what seems like years 2011 (actually, it probably has been years).

However, the demand for English teachers hasn’t suffered much: new people are still arriving, and finding work quickly.

These websites are very useful for expats living in Madrid:

in-madrid.com (News and stuff to do for young expats. Also, classified ads, job offers, and access to the anglophile community.)

madridteacher.com (Ads for teachers at around 70 euros a year, totally worth it for the amount of business it brings in. I’ve been advertising there for years.)

segundamano.es (Classified ad website for finding flats, etc.)

madrid.loquo.es (Kind of a Spanish craigslist.)

madrid.craiglsist.es (The real Madrid craigslist, which as far as I know, only expats use.)