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Thread: Life in Japan and bubbles Post: RE: Life in Japan and bubbles (2016-02-25, 11:59 pm)vix86 Wrote: This has always amazed me as well, that you can spend decades in a country and not be functional in the language, which seems to suggest when they came to the coun... |
Kamoshika | General discussion | 47 | 5,977 | 2016-02-26, 2:43 am | ||
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Thread: Life in Japan and bubbles Post: RE: Life in Japan and bubbles Quote:It's true that Japan is one of the harder destinations due to distance alone, but I don't really find it that exotic to live here (especially since i'm basically on campus 8 months a year). I do... |
Kamoshika | General discussion | 47 | 5,977 | 2016-02-26, 2:15 am | ||
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Thread: Life in Japan and bubbles Post: RE: Life in Japan and bubbles Quote:1. Yeah, about 1/4th of the population left the country in the past 2 decades, and it's estimated that another 1/4th is temporarily or unoficially living abroad. We usually measure up how good a... |
Kamoshika | General discussion | 47 | 5,977 | 2016-02-25, 2:42 pm | ||
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Thread: Life in Japan and bubbles Post: RE: Life in Japan and bubbles I agree that the act of traveling in no way determines whether or not someone is interesting. There are obnoxious, dull, boring people who travel a lot, and there are extremely interesting people who ... |
Kamoshika | General discussion | 47 | 5,977 | 2016-02-25, 1:08 am | ||
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Thread: Life in Japan and bubbles Post: RE: Life in Japan and bubbles My experience living in rural Japan for two years in the early 90's colors my perception of the country and its people. I'm sure if I had lived in Tokyo or another big metropolis in Japan, my experien... |
Kamoshika | General discussion | 47 | 5,977 | 2016-02-24, 1:23 pm | ||
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Thread: Life in Japan and bubbles Post: RE: Life in Japan and bubbles Maybe weirdo was too strong a term with too many negative connotations. As I said, my intent wasn't to attack people who choose to live abroad, as I'm one of them. I just meant different, unusual, めずら... |
Kamoshika | General discussion | 47 | 5,977 | 2016-02-24, 12:19 pm | ||
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Thread: Life in Japan and bubbles Post: RE: Life in Japan and bubbles Gaijin who choose to move to Japan are members of a tiny, somewhat weird subset of the people in their home countries. Regular, normal, everyday people from Western countries don't drop everything to ... |
Kamoshika | General discussion | 47 | 5,977 | 2016-02-23, 9:13 pm | ||
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Thread: I want the truth about teaching English in Japan. Post: RE: I want the truth about teaching English in Jap... (2016-02-23, 9:11 am)Raschaverak Wrote: This is a bit off topik, but only a bit. I would like to go to Japan but definitely not to teach, rather as a software developer. Definitely not for long term... |
Kamoshika | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 65 | 24,906 | 2016-02-23, 12:30 pm | ||
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Thread: I want the truth about teaching English in Japan. Post: RE: I want the truth about teaching English in Jap... From 1993-95 I worked as a JET ALT and made 30万円/month. At the time, living in the countryside, I easily lived off half of my salary. Twenty three years later, it boggles my mind that jobs are actuall... |
Kamoshika | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 65 | 24,906 | 2016-02-22, 6:52 pm | ||