Teaching English in Vietnam with an irish accent, possible/acceptable?

I was in Yichang about 7 years ago, an Irish bloke their had his own Language school.
I can't see your accent  being a problem , as long as your face is white, they have Russians, French, etc, ( some with terrible accents ),TRYING to teach English here.

Redmundial wrote:

...Do they prefer teachers to have American/British accents when teaching or are they open to others...

Yes, they do prefer American/British accents. However, other accent are still acceptable to many ENglish centres and it will also depend on the cost to hire you of course. Gud luck!

Thanks guys...funny you mention french teachers actually...I met a guy a few years back, from France, he was teaching English in Hanoi and we all wondered how it was possible, his accent was seriously strong even for native english speakers to understand!! In his defence though he was always smiling and a really positive and fun dude so I've no doubt that helped loads!

Like I said all you need is a caucasian complex with no skill, experience and knowledge. You just show up to class and act a clown. Try to make them communicate you and if they have questions just bullshit.

Look at the plus side. You're not a "Claire-clapper". My grandparents were from Toomebridge, County Antrim, and my Grandmother swore she could never understand a single word spoken by anybody from Country Claire. I've never heard it myself, but from her description I imagined it to be close to Glaswegian.

By the way, there used to be a fair amount of Irish English teachers in Seoul, Korea, and to my knowledge none of them ever had any trouble getting jobs.

tdnguyen828 wrote:

Like I said all you need is a caucasian complex with no skill, experience and knowledge. You just show up to class and act a clown. Try to make them communicate you and if they have questions just bullshit.

Oh, if it was that easy, maybe for little scone grabbers, but I have adult students who are constantly checking my definitions, and facts on their I Phones and Pads, , at first I thought they were just checking for a translation, then noticed a few had Dictionary websites open, and once you bullshit them once, they will probably disbelieve anything you say after that, ( I know I would  ).,
I agree , acting like a clown definitely helps with the youngsters, I always enjoy tricking them into learning something.
  You might be able to pull the no experience thing off, but having little knowledge will soon bring you unstuck.
With knowledge , comes skills.

I taught in China a few years ago with no skills or experience, managed to bullshit through for 3 months but you really do hit a wall eventually I think and it just removes the enjoyment when that happens...so gonna do the CELTA before headin out there next year, as they say by failing to prepare your preparing to fail so don't wanna take that risk again really...the plan is to actually enjoy being there and teaching after all!

...going back to the original point of accents i've lived around so my accent is definately diluted, but yeah there are some pretty extreme accents here in Ireland. I'm not too sure about people from Clare, but Cork for sure is definately one that even us here have troubles with!...like everything though its best not too generalise too much as theres always the exception!