i'm from the states, i live in shanghai china. I have studying Chinese for a few years now and i wanna give Japanese a try. I have loads of teaching experience , but i'm not sure how i should go to japan. I noticed on the internet a lot of Japanese English schools are willing to fly you in from the united states for free, but i live in china. I don't plan on going home anytime soon, any ideas??? other job ideas??? i can speak Chinese thanks!! if it makes any difference, i have a BA in history, minor in Chinese language and psychology
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Teaching English is your best bet if you want to live in Japan. Most places will accept you as long as you have a bachelor's degree, often with or without teaching experience, so that would help you. I would suggest writing to the companies and explaining what you just did here. Explain that you currently live in China but that you are American, and you are interested in teaching at their school. Ask them to send you information, and mention that you noticed that they will fly people from America for free, and you wonder if the same can be done from China should you be accepted. Chances are they'd be willing to do it as long as you had all the right paperwork. Flights to and from China are cheaper than American ones. One thing you might have to do, however, is fly to Japan at some point on your own expense to do an interview. Most companies have certain dates that they go to several locations in America (or other English-speaking countries they recruit from) and interview all the prospective candidates. As you are not living in America and they probably won't have an interview location in China (unless they recruit from there as well), you might have no choice but to fly to Japan for one. You can probably get a really good deal on the trip, though. I know this is probably ridiculously obvious, but just in case, I'm also going to say when you write to them be sure to check your grammar first. I figure you're not here simply because it's a casual format, though, but figure I should mention it just in case. ;)
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And I'm going to mention something that is not meant to be taken in any bad way. The Japanese have a history of being racist against Chinese and Koreans. So if you're a white American (and can prove it with a photograph - maybe the photo page on your passport) they may not even look at anything coming from China because they may assume you are Chinese.
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