URI has a Chinese language program: https://web.uri.edu/languages/academics/chinese/

Teaching at a Uni. That's a step up from the normal secondary in used to but I will give it a look. I speak and teach Cantonese and Mandarin

Just start tutoring kids/adults on your own. Put up listings/ads and build a client base. You don't need to work for someone, and you'll make way more money

Thank you for the suggestion. Back in Hong Kong, you need a license to tutor and while I was tutoring English there I wish to teach Chinese here. It is my only defining skill is to be a teacher.

You don't need a license to tutor here, free to do whatever you want

I Hope you find one! I was really hoping to get my son into Chinese language classes. We lived there for many years when he was little, and have wanted him to learn the language but have been unable to find anything in Rhode Island.

I am new to the state so I don't know of any resources other than myself. Does he want to learn Cantonese or Mandarin?

Lol we don’t learn Chinese here😂😂😂 you realize this is a mob state? Italian and Portuguese are the only language besides English that you are gonna here. Literally no state in the us teaches Chinese😂😂

I've only been here a week so I didn't know. Italian mob?

Yeah man. Pretty sure we have the most Italian descent per any state lol. Tbh there isn’t a market for teaching Chinese languages here lol, maybe on west coast but definitely not here.

Well my moving choices were here or California and I wasn't going to go to California. Looks like im out of luck

Well then you should start your own tutoring for it. Personally I think it’s cool learning new languages.

There’s a Chinese language school affiliated with a church in Pawtucket. It’s called Star Chinese School

Thank you. I'll look to see if they need help

The. That is something I will consider

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Couldn't remember the name of the school. Thank you!

Some of the really expensive private schools do (Wheeler, Moses Brown, probably some of the boarding schools in south county). The thing is usually there is just one position to fill that opens rarely when someone retires.

You might want to start by seeing if you can post fliers at places that have cork boards offering tutoring services. I have seen students from Brown offer tutoring on these community boards.

I wouldn't discount opportunities in Boston either as there is a lot of money and funding there too. The good news is a public school is much more likely to emergency certify you if to fill a program spot because they aren't churning out ed majors in these languages.

Thank you for all your help. Boston how far of a drive is it?

Depends on where. From Providence it will be a 1 hour drive/train ride (but suburbs are only like 35+ minutes). From southern RI it's more like 1 hr 45.

Growing up in Providence, the only Asian language offered at the time was Japanese. Not sure if that's still the case. It'd definitely be cool to have Chinese as an option.

I'm in the middle portion of the state. So a little over an hour I guess

My son is learning a language that is not available at his school through languagebird, an online tutoring platform. It is working out great. You might check it out from the instructor side. https://www.languagebird.com/

You should try calling around the private schools and putting your name on a list to be a substitute teacher. Then people would know who you are, what you are looking for, and you’d have a network who could tip you off when an opening somewhere comes up. Substitute teaching doesn’t require any special expertise I don’t think. You could also try public schools but there could be licensing requirements there.

His dad speaks Cantonese but he wanted to start with Mandarin first

I teach both, and grew up speaking both. Cantonese for family mandarin professionally.