aww damn not even for a couple hours?
If she really loves you… :badboy:
Az/Reno/Kunai - It looks like I won’t be able to make it to the 24th tournament. I’m free after the tournament will be over so I can still come out after that, but yeah…the tourney itself is a no-go for me, sorry to let you down. I know you guys were counting on me to OCV RF’s team with my chun.
Japan.
lol.
No takers? If no one is interested then I’m just going to sell it to a store tomorrow.
SSFIV KO Meal on April23
Anyone in Tokyo up for SSFIV KO meals? http://www.capcom.co.jp/sf4/tieup.html
I gonna make a reservation on April23, PM7:30@ Benitora Gyoza Bo in Ikebukuro Sunshine City .
If you are up for it, reply or PM me by tomorrow night.
No cheeseburger on white Cammy buns? The Japanese must be slipping in their hentai-ness…
Speaking of working in Japan. I know that a few people here on this thread were former JET’s and have since moved on. I am only on my first year of JET, but I am trying to plan (far) ahead on what kind of moves I can make afterward. I am pretty much on JET to improve my Japanese to try to get my foot in the door in the game industry as a translator or something, but I have talked to a few guys working there and I know my ability is not there yet (JPLT 3-ish). So, I am just curious to what people out here have been doing after teaching English under whatever employment and especially how everyone has found these jobs (gajinpot just seems to have the English teaching route). Particularly anything related or helpful towards game companies out here.
All I’ve gotta say about working your way up from teaching English: you better be serious about it. You’re going to be wasting 3/4 of your day speaking your own shitty language. The ideal way to do it is find a place where the workload is crazy low and you wind up sitting at a desk for most of the day reading books like I did.
Used that time to study for Lv 1, passed it and after a few years doing random translation and building meter, here I am now, where you want to be.
I found a copy of SSFIV a day early at the local game store. w00t!
This is all truth. And getting to really learn the language enough to translate it takes a lot of study. I got level one and even then there’s not much out there right now – even with a little translation experience. You might want to just party and have fun in Japan than take up such a time consuming and strenous endeavor. I ve’ been looking for a month or so and I haven’t seen anything for tgame translation let alone general translation. Be warned. Otherwise, good luck.
Ho! Hussy!
That sucks to hear man. If I hear about anything in Osaka or Tokyo I’ll let you know.
Honestly though getting into games straight away is going to be tough. Best to build meter in general translation/tech translation and then try to make the jump.
^Clear out your PM box man.
I had a lot of down time in my junior high English teaching job and I got lucky to get a bunch of proofreading jobs from an outside company that I could actually do mostly during work hours. That built up my resume enough to get my foot in the door at some places and take their translation tests. I actually got accepted for a localization dept. job at Koei’s Yokohama office but turned it down for a translator/secretary job at a Tokyo company where the boss is American and needs his email, etc translated. I was lucky to find a place that would accept a translator with very limited experience, because most want ads said “at least 2 years of exp”. Of course, this was like 5 or 6 years after passing level 1.
Cleared it out, I think? What’s good?
the more i read this thread the more i want to become a teacher and live out there.
i have 2 questions.
you have to have at least a b.s. in english let or something along those lines right?
wierd question but scott where do you get your haircut out there? can they do a fade? and how much is it usually?
Yeah. This is definitely what I have been told/planning on. Being that I am wrapping up my first year on JET, I am no where near leaving for several reasons (Japanese ability being on of them). I talked to one of the guys that works at Q Games (Pixel Junk) and he was telling me that JET is great because, “You are paid to basically study Japanese.” This is true to an extent for me, but I am also an elementary school teacher with a strict curriculum. So I teach, lesson plan, and do everything else on my own. So, if I am on top of my planning, I use the down time in the office to study, but other times I just can’t get around to it.
Also, for everyone who has passed 1kyuu and 2kyuu, what were some of the things you were doing/studying/reading to help improve your ability? I always try to ask as many people as possible with this, because everyone seems to have their own methods and sometimes I find some that really work for me as well.
Thanks for all of the info on this, dudes. I am actually at work right now, painfully waiting for the last 20mins to pass so I can go pick up SSFIV. It’s bloody torture…
Thanks bro. I’d appreciate it.
Man, the only qualification you need to be a teacher in Japan is getting a visa. The easiest way to do that is getting SOME kind of BA/BS degree, or you could just marry a japanese chick. After that, apply for jobs. Look the part, and bam! You are an “english teacher.”
As for your second question, in Tokyo their are a few spots to get your haircut. In the country side? Not so many. In the metropolitan area it costs about 30 bucks, but I found a tight spot by the military boss that gives fresh fades for only 10 dollars. That’s cheaper than my home town.
@Ronnin Dre.
I would really start looking at anything. I told you before, I got my foot into J-companies through temp agencies. Try them out. Every other job after that has been through random people giving me heads up and what not. I think finding jobs through the media is the biggest crap shoot. I really think it’s best to have someone somewhat introduce you to a position. In the meantime their are ways to pass the time and make unsteady cash.
Japan really isn’t the place to go for teaching English anymore. The pay is pretty crap unless you can get into JET, and 2 huge English-teaching corps have gone kaput in the last 3 years (NOVA in 07, GEOS last week) You have to have a 4-year degree to get a Visa, and all you can get is job as an ALT (Assistant Language Teacher) or more likely, a dancing clown for mothers who think their 2 year old will learn English in 1/hr a week. If you want to get into the decent teaching jobs you’ll need at least a masters, classroom experience, and a decent level of fluency (or for corporate language training/consulting, jlpt-1 fluency, a tight grasp of Keigo, and a business background)
Disclaimer: I do not live in Japan, I’m just a well-researched Asian Studies geek. I know that as part of my career I will be doing the crappy ALT job in Japan (If I can’t do JET) and China, and maybe South Korea before I go into grad-school so I pay attention to the ESL situation over there.