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Eikaiwa Schools - bodhisamaya - 2008-12-04
mentat_kgs Wrote:Weird.There are Japanese who want to learn Portuguese? There are tons of Nisei Brazilians working factory jobs 12 hours a day, rotating shifts, in Aichi and Shiga perfecture along with the Chinese for little pay. I worked one of those jobs for three months. Back-breaking work!
lang-8 is full of people wanting to learn portuguese. Probably there are many more wanting to learn fancier languages like French and German.
Eikaiwa Schools - phauna - 2008-12-04
I think you'll find that languages other than English are just hobbies for the Japanese. Therefore not as deserving of time and money. However English is kind of the road to wealth and power in many Japanese people's minds, so they take it seriously and invest time and money.
Eikaiwa Schools - Tobberoth - 2008-12-04
It's pretty fun actually.. During the year I lived in Japan, I met a few Japanese people who speak Swedish, even to a pretty decent degree. Some of my friends even went to a Japanese guys house to have "Swedish conversation" with a bunch of Japanese people.
But as phauna said, it's mostly a hobby. The ones I met were Japanese who had studied or lived in Sweden... that is, a VERY VERY VERY tiny minority. Me finding work teaching Swedish? Not going to happen.
Eikaiwa Schools - askayscha - 2008-12-04
what, so if my nationality is american or british I won't be able to work there?
my nationality is german! even though I live in the UK right now.
Eikaiwa Schools - Tobberoth - 2008-12-04
askayscha Wrote:what, so if my nationality is american or british I won't be able to work there?Your nationality is important, but that doesn't make it impossible.
my nationality is german! even though I live in the UK right now.
Eikaiwa Schools - ivoSF - 2008-12-04
i was in leksand, sweden this summer it seems that area has good connections with japan, they had a japanese day with al kind of events such as folksdance, kendo and afoodstand.
i can imagine same thing hapening in japan
Eikaiwa Schools - bodhisamaya - 2008-12-04
ivoSF Wrote:i was in leksand, sweden this summer it seems that area has good connections with japan, they had a japanese day with al kind of events such as folksdance, kendo and afoodstand.Uh, yea. Sweden Day is very popular in Japan.
i can imagine same thing hapening in japan
Eikaiwa Schools - byakko - 2009-01-16
I've since been invited to a group interview with AEON. Any advice/ tips that those of you who were successful in garnering employment might share with me? Any good resources for developing that teaching lesson plan that I would have to present?
The interview isn't until mid march so I have a bit of time to prepare. Any advice from anyone would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks guys.