Accredited Affordable TEFL Certification $39

TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) certification is a qualification that trains you to teach English to non-native speakers. Most schools and language centers ask for a 120-hour TEFL certificate to hire teachers. TEFL certification online teaches the same core skills and theory as in-person: classroom management, lesson planning, grammar instruction, and teaching methodology. 

No – you don’t need a degree to earn your TEFL certification with us. However, some countries (like China, South Korea, and UAE) require teachers to have a bachelor’s degree for work visa purposes. Your TEFL certification requirements depend on where you want to teach. Check our country-specific guides to see which destinations hire teachers without degrees – popular options include Cambodia, Mexico, Costa Rica, and many European countries.

TEFL teacher salaries vary by country and experience. Entry-level TEFL teachers typically earn:

• Asia: $1,200-$2,500/month (China, South Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Thailand)
• Middle East: $2,000-$5,000/month (UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar)
• Europe: €1,000-€2,000/month (Spain, Italy, Czech Republic)
• Latin America: $800-$1,500/month (Mexico, Colombia, Costa Rica)
• Online teaching: $10-$25/hour working from home

Teachers with specialized certifications (Young Learners, Business English) typically earn 15-25% more. Many positions include free housing, flights, or other benefits that significantly increase your take-home income.

There are cheaper TEFL courses out there – we know people who’ve tried them. Their accreditors are more like accreditation mills that have no benchmarks or standards on their site, nor do they have clear pricing. Our accreditors are known for having strict standards, meaning our courses must have high quality teaching. 

One cheap TEFL course that we heard about boasted of having only 200 multiple-choice questions. Another has around 300 questions (some of which were true-false questions). These TEFL courses are not legitimately trying to train you – they’re taking a textbook and attaching online questions to it to automate a digital certificate-making service. These companies are practically TEFL certificate vending machines. We do not, and never will, believe in such low quality practices – when you take one of our courses, you do so knowing that we don’t under-teach you like other courses. If you want low-quality TEFL or a simple course that can be clicked through with visible answers and no real depth of learning, we’re not the right choice for you. 

We advise you to take a step back and consider if you really want to take a cheap competitor’s course that boasts about being “without the fuss” (which we know means ‘so easy that you won’t properly learn anything usefully’) or counting having 300 questions (30-40% of them being true-false-type) as “clear, practical” assessments. Our courses include much more material; are far more in-depth (teaching you not just what to teach but how to teach, why to teach this way, and giving you realistic scenarios where you practice decision-making of that knowledge); let you actually experience our content and methods first (showing that we’re full of TEFL rather than full of anything else); and include full video coverage with a real, human voice).

Yes – online TEFL certifications are widely accepted by schools and language centers worldwide. What matters to employers is accreditation and the number of hours (120+ hours is the industry standard). Our courses are internationally accredited and include the same comprehensive curriculum as in-person programs, but at a fraction of the cost. Thousands of our graduates are currently teaching all over the world with our accredited online TEFL certification.

Most students complete our 120-hour TEFL course in 3-6 weeks studying part-time, but it can be finished in 7 days. You have lifetime access to text, so you can study at your own pace – finish in one intensive week or spread it over six months. There are no deadlines or time limits. Once you pass the final exam, your TEFL certificate is issued within a few hours (usually 1 or 2).

We’re the most affordable TEFL course because we’re actually active teachers and we don’t pay the usual marketing costs others do. We cut costs, not quality: our curriculum is more in-depth than other cheap TEFL certification providers and our customer service is generally faster. We also provide full video content. GoOverseas rated us #1 for value because you get premium education at an honest price. Disclaimer: we do currently use AI voiceovers, but we are slowly shifting to full human audio that covers every word of text (that’s about 150,000 words, so please be patient with us)!