Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Do You Have to Speak It to Teach It When I was completing my undergraduate studies, I decided to complete the requirements for the ESOL endorsement. I really enjoyed my classes and wanted to work with the ESOL students once I began my teaching career. However, the school that I starting teaching at didn't have any ESOL students, so I never got the opportunity to apply the skills that I learned to work with such students. Though I don't speak Spanish or any other foreign language fluently, do you think I have the quills necessary to teach ESOL students. Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) No I do not think you have to speak the language due to the fact that you will get more than just Spanish origin speakers. I currently at a school where some of the students orginal languages are Russian, Japanese and Swedish.