Comments | miluda: blah blah blah for February

miluda

blah blah blah for February

Feb 16, 2011 11:39

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kisai February 17 2011, 04:53:36 UTC

The Working Holiday Visa is also only good for 6 months, can only be done once, and you can't get it once you're 30. I knew about it years ago, but various issues prevented me from being able to do it anyway ( ... )

miluda February 17 2011, 05:22:13 UTC

A 6 month working holiday visa would allow me to apply for jobs for a longer period of time than just 90 days and most can be converted into a year long work visa very easily ( ... )

kisai February 17 2011, 05:46:00 UTC

"I think your perspective on life is too pessimistic. You need to be more positive and try for the impossible. Sometimes you can get it. I'll be in Japan in the future and I will prove it is possible."

I'm not trying to put you down. I'm just saying that teaching and doing anything else is unrealistic and runs counter to your point of wanting to learn Japanese better. I just think you'd be miserable and not something you'd want to do for very long.

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/rss/nn20080105f1.html

miluda February 17 2011, 06:08:19 UTC

I never said I'd do it for a long time, and I have already read this article and plenty similar it. In fact, the article you linked is one of the most famous articles for the ALT industry. I've done so much research and know exactly what you're talking about, but I don't think you realize that I have already accepted the pros outweigh the cons. My Japanese is not going to improve here in the States. I can take as many classes as I want and self-study for hours on end and it will NOT improve as quickly as it did when I spent only two weeks in Japan not too long ago. If two weeks makes such a huge difference for me, I can only imagine what a whole year could do for me ( ... )

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miluda February 19 2011, 23:18:13 UTC

haha, we'll see when i'm in japan how the doujin thing will go

Pessimism... nangbaby February 21 2011, 18:59:27 UTC

I hadn't been paying attention to my LiveJournal, so I didn't see this until now ( ... )

Long reply Part 1 miluda February 23 2011, 00:29:56 UTC

(Any information I write below about ALTs is related to being an ALT in Japan only. Things change with the country ( ... )

Took me forever to write this... nangbaby March 3 2011, 19:46:44 UTC

I've read your LJ, but it seems I didn't understand precisely what you were writing about. I thought you were translating doujin work and other mangas, not actually creating them yourself. Now I see why you're so popular on Twitter. ;)

The reason why I was concerned, though, was because it sounded from your entry that your primary motivation for becoming more proficient in Japanese was to improve communications with your friends, not your career. (I've also forgotten that you learned English as a second language...for someone not comfortable in it, you use it a lot better than my monolingual self.) In your replies you make it a lot clearer the professional reasons are just as important and you've planned this out. I apologize for the mistaken assumptions on my part.

I suppose I'm biased because I've been hurt by friends. I had friends -- not just Internet friends, but face-to-face friends who I've known for a decade -- and almost invariably, every last one of them have turned on me at one point or another. Heck, I've known magnus-samma ( ... )

Re: Took me forever to write this... miluda March 9 2011, 07:50:01 UTC

I just don't see it as failure. I see it as another path to somewhere else. It's hard to call something a failure because that means it's the end... life's not over yet ( ... )

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