{"id":13313,"date":"2021-03-30T06:55:02","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T12:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bridge.edu\/tefl\/blog\/?p=13313"},"modified":"2025-12-05T10:19:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T17:19:17","slug":"rory-falls-from-canada-teaching-english-online-to-brazilian-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bridge.edu\/tefl\/blog\/rory-falls-from-canada-teaching-english-online-to-brazilian-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory Falls, From Canada, Teaching English Online to Brazilian Students"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A side gig to his career in finance, running his own online ESL school has enabled Rory Falls, from Canada, to teach learners from Brazil. After connecting with Rory at the recent Language Summit event<\/a>, we interviewed him to ask about building his online ESL student base in South America, specializing in teaching Business English, and how he upgrades his skills through professional development (scroll down to watch the video).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hi, Rory! Can you share a bit about yourself?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

My name is Rory, I’m 25, and I live in a city called Chilliwack. It\u2019s in British Columbia, Canada, one hour and a half from Vancouver. I’ve lived in British Columbia for about 10 years now, and before that, I was in a different province, Alberta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can you tell us about your teaching job?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I’ve been teaching for just over two years now, and I created my own company. It’s called The Language Mountain. The idea behind that is that it’s not just about the view, it’s about the journey, so I help people kind of reach those new heights. With that, everything happened really naturally and organically. I first got on my schooling, done through Bridge, and I started networking through other applications. And my network actually really started to grow in South America. Now, two years in, my entire student base is out of Brazil \u2014 all of my students are Brazilian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I do have another full-time job that pays the bills, but then as I started teaching more, I realized that I absolutely love it. So now, my entire student base is from Brazil. I have eight full-time students a week \u2014 on top of my full-time job. It keeps me busy, but I absolutely love it. The company is now advertised through them, and they’ll be like, \u201cHey, my friend recommended me to you.\u201d Everything happened really naturally and congruently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rory’s flyer for his online English school<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

What is your full-time job?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I work in a manufacturing plant in the finance department. It\u2019s a completely different, completely opposite side to everything, but that’s kind of allowed me to teach Business English from a different perspective because I understand the business side of things. I got my Business English specialization so that I could actually teach what I know with my own experience, which has helped a lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Find out how you can teach Business English, like Rory!<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How do you market your online English classes?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n