Ask a guy (teaching English in Japan) anything

Are you in the city? I want to study abroad but I know zero Japanese (Other than stupid anime/weeb tropes)

How does it feel to wagecuck, you brainwashed non-NEET? Bet you're real proud of yourself and happy :)

You should incorporate Recidivism into your Realism agenda. A few lines up you said that you're also "The Plug"?

I wouldn't really know, but it seems like about the same speed as one can write English. A word is made up of one or more symbols, and writing a symbol out probably takes as long as writing out words in English. But I do find the concept of kanji or pinyin really fascinating. How are words misspelled? How do they abbreviate? I don't speak Japanese well enough to ask my students this unfortunately

I'm really close to a big city, but the place I teach in is somewhat a small town. I pass by rice paddies on my way to school and the FamilyMart is like a 15 minute walk away. My first experience with Japan was studying abroad, and it was an immensely enjoyable experience. When you're forced to fend for yourself in a foreign land, you adapt pretty quickly. You'll be able to get around by remembering some key phrases, gesturing, Google Translate, and using English with the people who do know how to speak it. You won't be able to have any deep connections with regular Japanese who don't speak English, but you can still get around, buy groceries, etc. etc. all pretty competently.

Don't feel bad
Many Japanese also write shi and so badly

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It'd be fun to alternate between pronouncing them to screw with the kids, but I'd get in trouble for that. And plus, I don't decide the actual lesson plans and subjects

I'm basically escaping adult life, just as you are. Except it's in Japan, so it's pretty exciting.

I'm glad that at least most fonts make the differences very clear

Have no idea what the fuck you're talking about...... Just a twat enjoying the idea of a teacher walking in and very dickishly being uncharacteristically racist to a class.

Do you get a lot of pussy from Jap girls?

The misspelling is caused by drawing it in wrong order, as far as I'm concerned, since a lot of characrers are similar to eachother. I think I've learned it, when I was looking at some YT tutorials don't take my word for it, I'm sleep deprived to death, know shit about Japanese/other Asian languages.

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H-haha yeah gaijin smash
But no, if I had gotten laid I would not deserve to be posting this thread on Jow Forums

That makes sense. I'd ask how kids can remember thousands of characters, but I guess that's a dumb question because it's the language they grew up speaking and writing

Why arent u settling for a 5/10 hunter gf?

Damn for real?
I thought that jap girls were supposed to be easy
I'm going to go travel to thailand instead
I only want poon I don't care about museums

If you are white look at the OP

Pray for me and I will

They are, but as the saying on /trv/ goes if you can't get laid in your home country, you can't get laid in another one either. Also, being white helps a lot. It will definitely be much easier in Thailand

How do they feel about black/tan people? or all foreigners just foreigners? asking for a friend

Just by looking foreign, you'll obviously get a lot more attention than the average Japanese dude. Black people don't get as much love as white people do, but there definitely are black fetishists out there too. Girls that go for white dudes usually become untouchable scarlet letter whore status, and girls that go for black dudes will go even further beyond that realm. But the point is, if you can find such girls then they'll definitely want a piece of you too.

If you're talking about brown (like Middle Eastern or Indian), and you're not a millionaire, then you're fucked.

>How are words misspelled?
By writing a kanji incorrectly, either using a different symbol with the same pronunciation or leaving out a stroke, adding an extra stroke, etc. They can also leave off a tenten on the hiragana or katakana. Things like that.

>How do they abbreviate?
There are shorthand kanji, though some are much more common than others. Pic related.

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That would be easy since the race was destroyed 70 years ago.

So I am:
>white
>not a weeb (I've watched classics like Kurosawa and Masuda, as well as animes like Perfect Blue and Grave of the Fireflies but I am not a Japanophile by any extent)
>never lived outside of Canada
>visited a couple of countries in Europe
>don't speak no moonspeak
>graduating next year and want to do something cool before graduate studies
>female

Would it be worth my time to go? What's the shortest term you can work? Is it easy to make friends?

>deep connections
Yeah, expected that. Are there enough fluent speakers that it's possible to make friends, though?

If Japan is a monoculture, why is there so much English? I know they had WWII and american occupation of some land, but normal Japs wouldn't need English, would they?

Another user in OP's position weighing in.

>Would it be worth my time to go?
Probably, but it depends a lot on what you make of your time and position here.

>What's the shortest term you can work?
Most contracts are for a year, but it may be possible to get a half-year contract in the event that another employee has to leave unexpectedly.

>Is it easy to make friends?
>Are there enough fluent speakers that it's possible to make friends, though?
Depends on your personality and where you're placed. If you're in or near a metropolitan area, there would likely be enough people that could speak English well enough for you be social with them. If you're in a more rural area, obviously the number of English speakers will decrease. There are usually a handful of people who will try to communicate with you, but as you can expect it gets tiresome after a while when the conversation can only go so far.

You can be a "mono culture" while still being active in the international sphere.

can you get a gf through like friends or something?

> but normal Japs wouldn't need English, would they?
Basically, English and Chinese are the most spoken languages in the world and any large-scale industry requires international supply chains. Even t-shirts have worldwide production cicle. Anything that results in a relatively decent income, be it as salary or sales, requires English or Chinese.

Neat, never knew that. Thanks for sharing!

I don't know if it's worth your time, it's completely up to what you would hope to get out of your experience. I'm on a yearlong program; I don't know if there's any shorter term assignments but surely there must be. There's an English teaching thread up on /trv/ (something like TEFL general) so maybe you can ask there. You definitely are qualified to go, though, because all you need is to be from an English-speaking country and have a college degree. Japanese speaking ability is completely optional, believe it or not.

Personally, as someone who's always been interested in Japan, I definitely think my experience has been worth it thus far. I think the history and culture are absolutely fascinating. The food is great too. It's as easy to make friends as it is anywhere else, but of course speaking the language would've helped a lot. I have managed to make a few friends, because a lot of university students (esp. in the international campus) are basically fluent in English. Plus, foreigners do like to stick together so there's a lot of foreigner-frequented bars and meetups organized online, and so on.

Because English is being shilled everywhere, it's becoming the de facto universal language. You'll find a lot of English in every Asian country, but that's just on their billboards and signs. Most Japanese don't use English in their daily lives unless they choose to. Compulsory English education isn't very comprehensive, and the only people who become fluent in English are the ones who liked it enough to continue studying on their own. As you can imagine, that's pretty rare. And for the older generation, pretty much 0% of them speak any English whatsoever

how racist are japanese people?

sometimes i'll be in a japanese discord server and i'll just start saying shit like "deport spics, i hate niggers" in japanese and after a while they'll be like "i think this guy is saying discriminatory phrases" and then they ban me

Not OP, but Chinese characters are cursive written like the image if you want to write quickly and take notes.

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These too, I completely missed that angle.

Here's hoping, I've only been here for a few months

I haven't noticed any overt racism or had any negative experiences yet. I think that the "American pigs must die" people I see online are in a very small minority.

How often do you visit 7/11?

>your time and position
I was hoping to make some cash and do some sight seeing. My knowledge of Japanese history is limited to World War II. I'd love to check some museums out.

>yearlong
Hmm, doesn't fit my schedule as much as I'd like.

>personality
>rural vs. metropolitan
Do you have a choice? What's more popular among teachers?

Thanks, user!

>de facto universal language
>tfw English is the lingua franca
Really cottages my pie.

>optional, believe it or not
I believe it! My sister spent two years in Korea with her boyfriend in tow.

>make a few friends
Yeah, being lonely bothers me. I struggle to make friends in a country where my speech, sarcasm, etc. is readily understood. How well would I do in a place where my conversation may be limited to pleasantries? I'd be down to hanging out with other foreigners, although I'd love to befriend an actual Japanese person rather than stay inside my cultural bubble.

Not Japanese, but Korean story:
>sister is blonde
>occasionally old dudes on the subway would proposition her under the assumption she was a Russian whore
>sometimes they'd grab her head

And Asians hate blacks lol.

Maybe once a week or slightly less. I go to a kombini pretty much every day, but by coincidence my commute and immediate area don't have 7/11s.

Cash isn't great. JET is the one of the (if not most) highest-paying programs and that's still only $30,000 a year. It's not a job you take to make money, it's more like a paid vacation in Japan with the possibility of squirreling some money away.

Metropolitan is overwhelmingly the most popular, and I think you have a choice only insofar as giving preferences. The other guy who's posting in this thread is also right on the nose about everything.

>isn't great
>paid vacation
Literally all I meant, sorry I wasn't clear. I wasn't expecting to ball hard Tokyo style.

I only ever hear of teaching English in Asian countries. Why is that? Aren't there European or African or South American countries that want to watch Die Hard without subtitles? I'm assuming European countries have a better infrastructure for this sort of thing.

What do you in your free time in Japan?

Euro foreign language education isn't atrocious to begin with, so there are no large scale programs to salvage it with native teachers. In my area (Eastern Europe) some private schools recruit native speakers who are already in country. As for state schools, they tend to use trained teachers and not any schmoe from an English speaking country.

It also should be noted that teaching a language is mostly about grammar and some very basic words. Most of learning how to speak is done through own work. That is, consuming stuff written/said in this language and speaking to natives.
Natives also frequently can't explain some concepts, especially if they are not trained to teach. It happens because they got so used to it, they regard these concepts as something intuitive or not notice them whatsoever.

I'm assuming because Europeans and South Americans have a much easier time learning English than Asians do, seeing as Spanish and French and German all share some semblances with English while Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Thai, etc. share absolutely zero.

I like going to arcades and winning useless but cute stuffed animals from UFO catchers. I also like going to various museums in general. I do some photography, and I watch a lot of movies. I'm also trying to figure out how to join judo while not really being able to speak Japanese

What they really want is someone who speaks clear, un-accented English so students can hear what "proper" English sounds like. That's pretty much it

>tfw degree in Japanese but don't really feel like doing the whole ESL in Japan/Asia thing

It just seems so boring and such a waste of time. I have student loans (~$650/mo) and I don't want to work for JET (hate kids) so I would be forced into survival mode by holing up in my apartment and conserving calories.

I really like the idea of VISITING these countries but living there is just...Ugh...Not quite my cup of tea. I feel like I'd get my ass kicked by life out there as I'm not exactly the Chadiest, most competent specimen (I'm mildly retarded).

I'm willing to give it a try but I'd want to bring my PC and shit with me so I'd have buy like two big ass durable luggage cases.

> my PC
Why not sell it where you live and then buy parts for a cheap price at Akiba?

What country do you live in OP?
Is your salary enough for the cost of living there in japan?
I also heard that its Sakura season there now, are there sakuras around the school?

That assumes a lot of things. I'd rather just bring the big bitch over. If I build a new one over there I'm just going to have the exact same problem.

I like to carry my shit with me; I cannot be fucked with shipping things overseas or anything else similarly complicated.

Are you a Spic?
Original

here, not OP.
>What country do you live in OP?
I assume you mean "part of the country"; I live in Kyushu.
>Is your salary enough for the cost of living there in japan?
Plenty to live comfortably by oneself and still be able to afford travel and other occasional luxuries.
>I also heard that its Sakura season there now, are there sakuras around the school?
Cherry blossom season is over down south, but yes, there are a ton of cherry trees near my school.

>Are you japanese? If not where do you oreganolly live?

Do you happen to know a guy named Steve Nguyen

Is the English teacher meme really as bad as people say it is? Im trying to figure out a way to live there and work and it seems teaching English might be my only option.

Oregano-ly from the US.

Bad in what way? You don't get looked down upon except by ex-pats in other fields of work, if that's what you mean. The salary isn't great, but as stated before, it's plenty to live comfortably on. The experience you get is down to your employer, where you're placed, and how you decide to treat it. I've been doing it for the better part of a decade and I know several people who've been doing it longer, so obviously some people find it alright.

> for the better part of a decade
Are you going to apply for naturalization? The requirement is five years on a job visa.

What the fuck are you doing writing some shit 20 times in a row for? Haven't you ever heard of Anki?

If you want to meet up in Tokyo we can get a drink and I'll shit all over you for being a dweeb.

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Nah, I'm not particularly interested in becoming a Japanese citizen. Permanent resident, maybe.

>im not white
ah damn, I was thinking about asking how much puss you're getting

Japanese pussy is not even good (in Japan). The best you can do is have sex while you're drunk, which is one or two steps above sober sex at best. Sober sex with a condom no less - is it worth the effort? I dunno, dude.

>ctrl f loili and pedo
:(

Not OP , but writing stuff and making notes makes it easier to remember it.