Non-native english speakers, I'd love to hear your stories and advice.
Hi, my name is Maki I'm a 25 yrs old French-Canadian girl currently living in Quebec and planning to move to Japan on a Working Holiday visa around mid-May (I already have the visa
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I'm a non-native speaker teaching English in Japan. I've been here for over 2 years now. I came initially with a working holiday visa as well, then after 1 year changed to a proper work visa. The latter was almost impossible, though. Reason: they won't give work visas to non-native speakers so easily. They told me it wouldn't be a problem if I'd teach my native language, though.
In the end after some drama I managed to get my work visa.
Anyways, for finding a job in Japan, being a native-speaker is not as essential as you might think. It will be for a work visa, though. As you will get a working holiday visa, it will be okay as long as that visa is valid :)
I'm not sure how popular French is in Japan, but you might be able to find a job teaching French and English.
As long as your English ability (esp. pronunciation) is good, there shouldn't be a problem in GENERAL. But the market here has been getting worse and worse ever since the beginning of last year, so there are a lot of native speakers that also struggle to find a job.
If you want to stay after your working holiday visa expired, that will be a problem. Either you need a degree, 10 years experience in the job you want to do or you have to marry a Japanese citizen XD
Hope that helped a bit.
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By the way I read your lj regularly and I find it very informative and inspiring! You always post beautiful pictures <3
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Wow awesome! Glad you like it and thanks so much (;o;)/❤
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