oh sorry i had no idea... well i havent really thought bout it... which do you think is better? private school sounds good... i'm thinking of tokyo area tho so i don't know what i could get there
It depends what you mean by 'teaching'. The two most common types - ALT work and ekiawa work. ALT means being an Assistant to the Japanese teacher of English in a public school. These jobs are usually contracted out to organisations. Eikiawa work is teaching English conversation out of a school like AEON, GEOS, etc. There's prod and cons to both, it depends what you're looking for in terms of schedule and responsibility.
The pay varies according to area and company, I think about 250,000 before tax, etc. is about average.
For most jobs, the only qualification you need is a degree, and that's just for immigration reasons.
And yes it is hard, espcially if you've got no prior experience.
eikawa sounds more like the type of job i'd want. problem is i know almost nothing of japanese... well right now i work 6 days/week and 12 hrs/day so i want something lighter...
i have cambridge certificate but i got it like 10 years ago.
maybe i should try toefl?
well i've taught private lessons in brazil... never at school tho
As for Japanese ability, you're not supposed to speak any Japanese at all in school, so it really dosn't matter. Plenty of people come fresh off the plane never having taught or spoken a word of Japanese before and they survive in eikawa.
Just out of curiosity, I'm a bit confused by the numbers you're citing.
250,000-260,000 yen salary works out to roughly US$2500-2600, which could not possibly be an annual salary (it's too small by a factor of at least 10), but seems quite high for a monthly wage. So, which is it?
Try doing some research, that way you can ask directed/focused questions whose answers will be vaguely useful/relevant for you and worthwhile for whoever answers.
hey sarah yeah i thought bout teaching english to brazilians but i don't know where to find schools... if there are any, they're probably around gunma, aichi... and i wanna move to tokyo so i don't know... oh well i might end up not changing jobs at all and just go back to brazil lol
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The pay varies according to area and company, I think about 250,000 before tax, etc. is about average.
For most jobs, the only qualification you need is a degree, and that's just for immigration reasons.
And yes it is hard, espcially if you've got no prior experience.
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problem is i know almost nothing of japanese...
well right now i work 6 days/week and 12 hrs/day so i want something lighter...
i have cambridge certificate but i got it like 10 years ago.
maybe i should try toefl?
well i've taught private lessons in brazil... never at school tho
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As for Japanese ability, you're not supposed to speak any Japanese at all in school, so it really dosn't matter. Plenty of people come fresh off the plane never having taught or spoken a word of Japanese before and they survive in eikawa.
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250,000-260,000 yen salary works out to roughly US$2500-2600, which could not possibly be an annual salary (it's too small by a factor of at least 10), but seems quite high for a monthly wage. So, which is it?
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work 6days/week 12hrs/day
yup, call me slaaaave
that's why i wanna get a new job..
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yeah i thought bout teaching english to brazilians but i don't know where to find schools... if there are any, they're probably around gunma, aichi... and i wanna move to tokyo so i don't know...
oh well i might end up not changing jobs at all and just go back to brazil lol
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