| For a while, Yes But for the rest of my life? No, I still prefer my own country |
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| I have been really really serious to wether I can work abroad or not. Yes, it is very convenient to live in Japan but when it comes to work, I have terrible headache. We work for long hours meaninglessly and spend our precious time working complaining and being stressed. But I don't have any ability to make living abroad.... So I'm depressed currently. I can't find any solution .... |
| Just because you are going to japanese, that doesn't mean you are becoming an anime.. it's just a normal place. I would move to Japan, just the same way I'd move to anywhere that isn't where I live currently tbh |
| No, most likely not. I won't be able to handle the xenophobia there. Besides, I don't want to be a slave work robot working insane hours. And the English teaching thing is true. My friend taught in Japan as an English teacher and was never able to speak any Japanese at all. He told me he taught them a bunch of swear words and stuff like that |
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| going to japan=automatically knowing all their language? sign me up |
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Veronin said: If you can't speak and read Japanese, please do not visit the country. You'll be a nuisance to everyone there and hurt Japan's perception of foreigners even more. It is a Japanese country, not an English one. Expecting people to kneel over and accommodate you with special treatment because you were too lazy to learn their language is not how it works. It's actually quite rude. On-topic: I'm moving to Tokyo in a couple months to study at a university. Looking forward to it quite a bit. Don't foreigners do this in America? They come to America but learn as they live there. You can't expect someone to be fluent in the language as a requirement before you go to their country, and I certainly wouldn't expect that from them. They have to start from somewhere. My Japanese classmate obviously studied English in Japan, but it's a whole different game when you actually go to the country. Over time however he want from bad to decent to good to basically fluent. He was never a nuisance, he was just trying to learn. He was not getting 'special treatment' we just understood that he was trying his best to use a language he never actively used before. And he certainly wasn't lazy for not knowing the language before coming here. |
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Fatalistic said: Don't foreigners do this in America? They come to America but learn as they live there. You can't expect someone to be fluent in the language as a requirement before you go to their country, and I certainly wouldn't expect that from them. They have to start from somewhere. My Japanese classmate obviously studied English in Japan, but it's a whole different game when you actually go to the country. Over time however he want from bad to decent to good to basically fluent. He was never a nuisance, he was just trying to learn. He was not getting 'special treatment' we just understood that he was trying his best to use a language he never actively used before. And he certainly wasn't lazy for not knowing the language before coming here. But he already started learning the language before he came to the US. That's fine. Nobody is expecting fluency. What bothers me is when people know zero Japanese or like five stock phrases and expect everything to be in English for them. People are busy, I get it, but studying a little bit isn't too much to ask. |
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| I'd live there if all my expenses were paid off, maybe. |
| I have heard that going to Doctor appointments, medicine, etc. is cheaper. This would help my mom very much. Right now, she needs a surgery but it's too expensive, Medicare pays up to 80% (she said it is actually less) So she has to pay the rest, which we do not have that much money right now. She also is supposed to go to doctor appointments more frequently but Medicare like I said only pays so much for it. If I remember correctly, my mom said that she has to get the appointments all paid off before she can go to another appointment. If it's true that in Japan it's a lot cheaper there, then I would love to move there with my mom so my mom can have it easier. |
SweetRoseJun 19, 2016 5:53 PM
| Probably not to be honest. I like where I live it'd be kinda hard "restarting" my life by moving there. I definitely would love to visit there tho. |
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Veronin said: Fatalistic said: Don't foreigners do this in America? They come to America but learn as they live there. You can't expect someone to be fluent in the language as a requirement before you go to their country, and I certainly wouldn't expect that from them. They have to start from somewhere. My Japanese classmate obviously studied English in Japan, but it's a whole different game when you actually go to the country. Over time however he want from bad to decent to good to basically fluent. He was never a nuisance, he was just trying to learn. He was not getting 'special treatment' we just understood that he was trying his best to use a language he never actively used before. And he certainly wasn't lazy for not knowing the language before coming here. But he already started learning the language before he came to the US. That's fine. Nobody is expecting fluency. What bothers me is when people know zero Japanese or like five stock phrases and expect everything to be in English for them. People are busy, I get it, but studying a little bit isn't too much to ask. i bet you've never been in europe then. you can go through multiple diffrent countries speaking diffrent languages in one day, thats going to take you a shitload of studying then.. it's completely normal for tourist, and even imigrants to just speak english(which 90% of the time if not even their first language ether), and no one gives a fuck. english is a universal language that is taught almost all over the world these days (some places better than others), while Japanese, Turkish, Russian, Swedish, Dutch, Italian, Polish etc are not. expecting all visiters to know the language is stupid. maybe you never thought about that since you seem to be from an english speaking country, so most people will obviously know the language when they visit. i bet you hate my chinese friend cause he can't speak german even though he's living there right? my niece's housmates who go to an international school here probably too right? all my colleagues from Polland, Czech and Hungary, who do the shitty work everyone else in this country feels the're too good for. i've been to japan, and came by fine with just english and some random japanese words. i can understand japanese a little though. same for lots of japanese i notices, understanding english is easier than speaking it, so ive met people who i spoke english to, and they spoke japanese back (while mixing some words in here and there) |
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| why not? even if it's for a short while; it'd be great to improve language knowledge aswell :3 |
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