About teaching english in japan?

Question

ok so im 17 years old and im going to university to get a deegre as a english teacher and then work for 1 year to get practice and some money. so is it hard the first week.month? is life good there?

Answer 1

if you have a degree and fulfill all the requirements needed it's not a hard thing to do to get in here

if the university you're going in to offers japanese language units much better you study a little

it will help you a lot when you come here and your stay  will be a lot more fun

goodluck!!

Answer 2

If you are going to get a job as an English teacher here first, you might want to then try applying for a job with DoDDS first, as an English teacher.  The Department of Defense Dependents Schools are schools for military people overseas.  So, they hire American teachers to teach the children of military people.  And they have schools in Japan.

I'd be leery of just taking a job sight-unseen in a foreign country as I've heard some horror stories of people who did so, had their boss confiscate their passport as soon as they arrived and treated them as a slave thereafter.  It's better to be in Japan already, when looking for a job teaching English in Japan, so that you can have a better chance at finding a legitimate job.  Especially if you are female.

How hard it is in any foreign country will depend a lot on you.  How adaptable are you?  How well do you deal with change?  and loneliness?  A lot of people try such things and find it much harder than they expected because they weren't really prepared for things to be so different.  Others find living overseas to be exciting.  It can help some if you've spent a lot of time around students from other countries, helping them adjust to life in your own country--so that you have a bit of an idea of the difficulties involved, of culture shock, and other adjustment problems.  Even better is if you already have experience living for at least a short time in some other country.

If you really want to go this, you should definitely be learning all you can about the Japanese language and culture.

I'm not too sure how open Japan is to allowing foreigners to live there on a permanent basis.  They are definitely a society that looks down on those who are not of pure Japanese descent--which could be the biggest sticking point in your plan....

Answer 3

learn japanese first... start small