Ryan Ginstrom <ginstrom@hotmail.com> wrote:

> "Paul Blay" <ranma@saotome.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:cvchl3$qqb$1$8302bc10@news.demon.co.uk...
> > "Hallvard Tangeraas" wrote and I slightly rearranged ...
> > > Having visited Japan and liked it a lot I've given thought to the idea
> > > of staying there for a year or two (and who knows what next). Speaking
> > > to other gajins along the way I've understood that the easiest way to
> > > get work is to apply for an English teaching position when you don't
> > > speak any Japanese.
> >
> > I'm not sure what else you could do without speaking _any_ Japanese.
> 
> You could get a job butt-wiping^H^H proofreading translations into English
> by native Japanese speakers with a questionable grasp of the English
> language.

The trouble with that sort of job is, I found, that there's always going
to be some translator or later-stage editor who will pick up on the fact
that the rewriter is not from the USA and so could not possibly
understand the subtle nuances of the English required for the preferred
market. Never mind that such translators and editors couldn't either, by
the same logic....

A much more interesting version of that job involves rewriting technical
papers written in English by Japanese researchers, for publication
abroad. But that requires specialist knowledge of the subject.

What other qualifications do you have, Hallvard?
> 
> But those people generally become even more bitter than English teachers.

Hey! I started out that way! Um.... No, not really bitter. Much.

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