Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!gcd.org!vda-gw!news.moat.net!news.imp.ch!news.imp.ch!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Declan Murphy Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Teaching English in Japan (as a NON-native English speaker)... or other jobs? Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 00:37:49 +0900 Lines: 17 Message-ID: <421A004D.2060403@hotmail.com> References: <4219c504$1@news.broadpark.no> <4219fde8$1@news.broadpark.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net 7N8SpcHOYu/KxEeFLRcXEwDcuKnlwh0POX9Htps3c+8903EOHK User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <4219fde8$1@news.broadpark.no> Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:25562 Hallvard Tangeraas wrote: > If I get really serious about moving over to Japan I'd want to learn > Japanese as well. I guess living in another country without knowing at > least a bit of the language keeps you pretty much out in the cold. Yes. > Is it hard to learn enough Japanese to get by? I mean, the usual > situations like shopping for groceries, buying a ticket, picking up the > phone etc. Not a philosophical discussion mind you! If you do a course in Japan then about 8-12 weeks or so IMO. -- "UFJ in general are a bunch of shitheads" - tourist in not-quite-Japan.