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Can anyone recommend teaching English in Japan? Websites? Accommodation? Pay? Do you need to speak Japanese? |
Travel Info Many thanks Travel Tips Paco is wrong. I taught English in Japan for 3 years. I didn't know one word of Japanese at all. Teaching English is a wonderful profession. I loved it and recommend it to you. The minimum requirement is a university degree. The school that hires you will have an apartment set up for you. You don't have to worry about it. Salary is 250,000 yen a month for the first year. That comes to about $2,1000 or so. Check www.xe.com. You can live comfortably on this salary and you can even save money. Some big name schools are NOVA, Aeon, and Berlitz. Source(s): www.gaijinpot.com www.eslcafe.com Other Travel Tips You should be able to speak at least a bit of Japanese...enough to get around and help out your students when they are confused. But you don't necessarily have to speak it fluently if you want to teach using the total-immersion method and just talk to them only in English until they pick it up. Speaking fluent Japanese would be a plus, though, because more people would want to hire you and you might be able to get a better job. I know someone who knows a bit of Chinese and earns a fair amount of money teaching Chinese businessmen how to speak English. His case is pretty rare, though, and you probably can't expect much just starting out. But anything can happen. Good luck! Can I recommend it? No, I can't. From what I've seen it's got to be one of the most brain dead professions out there in which you wind up teaching kids how to say, "I have a red pencil box". Actually it's not that bad, but I hear it can be really boring after a while and you need to always be upbeat and insanely happy. Some places provide accommodation, some don't. If you find a place with accommodation often times it will be shared so that means you have little privacy. Also if you're in a company sponsored apartment and you wind up getting fired or quitting the company they will demand that you move out right away. From a legal POV they can't do this but they will threaten you with eviction. This is why I say you should find your own place unless you plan on staying with the company for a long time. Pay is going to be the same as it was 20 years ago. So you're going be making about 250,000 yen a month which is survival level in Tokyo. A lot of English teachers wind up taking private students to make some extra money. Your school will forbid you from doing this but there's really little they can actually do about it. And finally to work as an English teacher you don't need to speak Japanese. In fact they don't want you to speak Japanese at all while in the class. You should learn Japanese while you're here but once you set foot in the school you should be in English only mode. The big names for English schools are: AEON, NOVA, GEOS, GABA and a few others who's names escape me at the moment. Most of them hire overseas and I would do a search on these names before committing to any of them. A lot of them have checkered reputations which may be warranted or may not. Good luck. |
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