No.1158
You die if you work. It does not matter where you work.
No.1165
>I've never seen
You havent been looking. This type of sentiment is more common than the actual want to teach English in Japan.
No.1166
Being a teacher is an awful j*b. It's one of the worst j*bs you can have.
No.1168
>>1167I know what you mean. It often feels like they hardly even know how to speak Japanese and can only barely form coherent structured sentences.
No.1169
>>1167Too many Onomatopoeias.
No.1173
>>1157living in japan isn't that bad
source: lived in japan
No.1174
>>1173>livedif its not so bad then why did you leave then huh? checkmate
No.1175
>>1173Foreigners in east asia tend to be really jaded for some reason. Which is funny because in west and south asia they're almost the opposite.
No.1176
>>1167>>1170I'd say this is true for English too (it isn't my first language). I always thought it sounded cool in movies, TV shows and news stations, but the way people speak it in everyday conversations can actually be a bit grating. Doesn't help that it's much harder to understand it as well since English has retarded pronunciation.
No.1177
>>1176Blame the french from the pronounciation.
No.1178
>>1174responsibilities/family etc
>>1175rich vs poor countries maybe? which particular countries in west and south asia are major foreigner destinations?
No.1179
>>1177Yeah, French is another language that sounds good in media but not so much in real life.
No.1180
>>1178>westMostly Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Most foreigners are there because they do not have income tax.
>southIndia, sometimes Pakistan but very much less so.
I think the main difference is that work usually brought these people there where as East Asia people go there on purpose.
No.1181
>>1176Yeah, I know what you mean. It's pretty weird that people cut their sentences every three words.
>>1177The French pronunciation isn't that bad when the person speaking is pretty fluent.
No.1184
>>1160>I thought everyone knew the time for this was in the 80s and 90sOh, this post of mine looks like I'm talking to OP, but I meant the "I'm going to be English teacher!" people. The time to do this was in the 80s and 90s and maybe the early 00s. Heck, those teachers might have kids that are also English teachers in Japan now.
>>1176Yeah, casual everyday English is about efficiency and expediency so it doesn't sound very good. I know mine is atrocious. We don't say "I am going to the store to buy a bottle of soda". We say "gonna get soda"
No.1189
>>1176It depends on the English, American sounds awful.
>>1179I actually didn't mind French in real life when I went there.
>>1184That's American, that's what I mean.
No.1196
>>1184>We don't say "I am going to the store to buy a bottle of soda". We say "gonna get soda"That's an unfair comparison, as from even a writing perspective the second sentence is better than the first. The first has too many words in it and more information than what the second conveys.
In the first sentence you specify that you are buying soda from the store. While the second sentence just says you are getting soda; no mention of how you are obtaining the soda or from where. It may be unsaid but, there is some sort of implication from a presumed, larger conversation or other situational context clues that would make specifying the how and where extraneous. And thus you would leave out these details in the second sentence.
I may be not understanding what you are getting at with this comparison either. What about the two sentences makes one "sound better" than the other?
No.1197
>>1184>We don't say "I am going to the store to buy a bottle of soda". We say "gonna get soda"Yet for some reason English speakers still find it shocking when Japanese does the exact same thing...
No.1198
>>1197Everyone learning a foreign language thinks that... The formal written and spoken language is often quite a bit different from informal casual speech.
No.1199
>>1167The people in anime/tv/music are literally paid the big bucks because they have pleasing voices, and in addition to that they are saying things that are rehearsed and scripted.
You could make the same argument for any language I think.
No.1221
>>1220That’s what english teachers are for. Well maybe the other way around; teach the locals how to speak with the occupation force.