Yeah, JET should be cool. My roomie from Japan got some word about a governmental program in Japan. I can ask details if you would be interested. Just avoid Nova (= No Vacation)
I would NEVER work at NOVA, I've heard it's terrible! Did I tell you about that creepy fat American guy who solicited me outside of Vivre about working for them? I was walking along with my friend Eriko, and he looked me right in the eye and said, "Where are you from!?" I really wanted to yell EIGO GA WAKARANAI BITCH! But of course I'm nice and I just said, "Sorry, I'm busy," and I refused the NOVA fliers he was trying to hand out. But ugh! That right there was enough to make me dislike NOVA, without hearing all the bad things people have already said about them.
Doesn't seem to me like most JET people are much different than that. Anyway, if I did JET, I'd ask for somewhere in Kansai- it's too late, that's already my Japanese "home."
Though I do take issue with being part of a horrible foreign language teaching system. ...argh.
So are all English teaching programs. Personally I don't have a problem with that, and I see nothing wrong with JET. I plan on using it as a means of getting to Japan and then pursuing other employment once I'm there. Work is just work.
BY THE WAY!
Who is taking JLPT Nikkyu? And do you think I should take it? The signup date is October 7 and I need to decide if I should take Nikkyu or Sankyu.
Assuming your abilities are about what they were end of last semester, I'd say Sankyuu (You're welcome ;)). We were told that students who passed (or perhaps only those who got A's....) R&W and Spoken 5 at Gaidai should be able to pass Nikyuu. You did not, so probably Sankyuu. Nor did the teachers at Gaidai make it seem like those who passed levels 5 would pass Nikyuu with flying colors- just that they would pass. I certainly don't know 1000 kanji! (that's the number that will be on the Nikyuu.) From what I've read on the test, there will probably be a lot of kanji and grammar in Nikyuu that you don't yet know.
You probably do know more than 1000 tim, or at least you did upon leaving. I have been posting on my wall all of the extra 600 required kanji (that is not including what was manditory for sankyuu and yonkyuu) and while going in alphabetical order, and thus not done yet, I can say confidently that I know at least 80%+ of them. Granted, I was in level 5, although my grades were B and C (Komura hated me, alas) but although I have more time in Japan than natalie thanks to my job in the summer, I do recall Natalie's Japanese to be quite good. Natalie, I think you can do it, but you have to seriously study
Yeah, JET should be cool. My roomie from Japan got some word about a governmental program in Japan. I can ask details if you would be interested. Just avoid Nova (= No Vacation)
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Though I do take issue with being part of a horrible foreign language teaching system. ...argh.
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BY THE WAY!
Who is taking JLPT Nikkyu? And do you think I should take it? The signup date is October 7 and I need to decide if I should take Nikkyu or Sankyu.
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