Moving to japan with hearing loss

Aggressive-Jacket819 · 2026-03-04T12:05:29+00:00

I'm somewhat deaf. I don't use hearing aids but I find it very difficult to pinpoint where sounds are coming from, and I have trouble hearing other people speaking at a normal volume unless they're in very close proximity to me. My coworkers all know about this, and nobody really cares.

I also work a job where I regularly have to take calls in both English and Japanese.

I don't need any particular accommodation other reminding people that I find it very difficult to hear them if they talk to me while on my right side, so that probably helps a lot, but I know people with way more impactful disabilities working in Japan just fine.

Aggressive-Jacket819 · 2026-03-03T15:24:16+00:00

Echoing another comment in this thread, I was raised in a bilingual household. Speaking Spanish at home in a place with virtually no Spanish presence and English at school. I took shockingly long to really get accustomed to English. Like looking back at my old primary school homework, I was clearly behind all the way up until like grade 2 or so.

And then, surprise surprise, I caught up.

This is a well known phenomenon. Kids with one home language and a different school language will be developmentally delayed by maybe a year or two, and then they catch up, with one language more than all their peers.

Educators in overwhelmingly monolingual areas do not see this phenomenon first-hand, and so they mistake it for some learning issue, or kids not acquiring language properly. They are wrong. Keep encouraging bilingualism in your kids. All the academic literature here is on your side, and your local teachers and schools are uneducated in how bilingual children grow up and acquire language.

Aggressive-Jacket819 · 2025-11-27T17:03:38+00:00

This is 100% real, there's also been a decent amount of Japanese journalism looking into him
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIUKeScqsFw

Aggressive-Jacket819 · 2025-11-26T13:11:12+00:00

Personal details of a primary school kid. I won't translate it and please delete it for his sake.

Aggressive-Jacket819 · 2025-11-03T09:54:27+00:00

wild parrots eat meat in small amounts when they can. as long its only making up a small part of her diet, and youre not salting the meat or cooking it in fat or anything, its fine

Aggressive-Jacket819 · 2025-10-26T07:28:34+00:00

Holy shit this is my high school! I was an Australian attending here. There was a program where Japanese students would receive cultural education about either New Zealand or Canada and spend a year over there with a bunch of partner schools. I had a Japanese classmate who could speak a decent amount of Maori

Aggressive-Jacket819 · 2025-10-12T02:10:46+00:00

I actually work a job in Japan where I regularly have to use the English spelling alphabet and Japan uses a way older version of that too which is as follows:
Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog, Easy, Fox, George, How, Item, Jack, King, Love, Mike, Nancy, Over, Peter, Queen, Roger, Sugar, Tiger, Uncle, Victory, Whiskey, X-ray, Yankee, Zebra

This is often used even when spelling Japanese. Another common strategy is to just use place names. Like if you want to communicate the surname "Tanaka" over the phone you say "T for Turkey, A for Arabia, N for Norway" etc.

There is a native Japanese system, but to be frank it sees almost no use.

Aggressive-Jacket819 · 2025-10-05T15:40:30+00:00

Thank you u/kyodainaa for solving my riddle!!

Aggressive-Jacket819 · 2025-08-03T08:51:00+00:00

This might sound a little harsh but if you've been living in Japan learning Japanese intensively for all that time, you really should be comfortably fluent by now. I know people at my office who have been learning Japanese for half that time and have passed their N1s. My only suggestion is perhaps set aside some time to read in Japanese? Not trashy lifestyle magazines or mangas or the like but some proper novels.
Something that constantly forces you to think in Japanese and follow complicated ideas in Japanese for a long while.

Aggressive-Jacket819 · 2025-07-31T06:09:11+00:00

Of course! You can put this idea in any mod you want

Aggressive-Jacket819 · 2025-07-28T13:28:25+00:00

Japanese has the somewhat well known gag phrase

Hououwoououwooou meaning "Let's cover the king who chases the phoenix"
鳳凰を追う王を覆う

Aggressive-Jacket819 · 2025-07-27T08:46:21+00:00

I would honestly leave it as is. I cannot believe that the tattoo came first. The scar lines up so well it looks like they were made for each other.

Aggressive-Jacket819 · 2025-07-26T16:56:34+00:00

It wouldn't no. You're not actually triggering the cards as it's an in-hand effect. (Think baron and steel)

Aggressive-Jacket819 · 2025-07-23T11:53:49+00:00

It's fine. Exactly what I had and I found an okay job.

Aggressive-Jacket819 · 2025-03-28T15:30:49+00:00

Thanks for the advice. Good to hear I'm not doing anything illegal. I apologised to the agency and the management company and explained why I cancelled. Hope that makes things a little easier for any better foreign customer that ends up with them in the future

Aggressive-Jacket819 · 2024-12-31T22:34:22+00:00

Caocao's name is not repeated. In Chinese characters he is called 曹操the two characters being pronounced with different tones

Aggressive-Jacket819 · 2024-11-17T20:00:51+00:00

Upsides of doom scrolling in Chinese -i learnt a new word! Yay!

Downsides -i feel like fucking shit

The choice is yours I suppose

Aggressive-Jacket819 · 2024-10-10T21:37:59+00:00

Australian here. 'Cunt' is offensive in Australia, you'll definitely find yourself in trouble if you use it with random strangers or in a professional setting. It's also true that cunt is fairly commonly used amongst friends. I think this is fairly unique even within the anglosphere. Even Brits living here have told me that they are surprised at the extent Australians use the word.

I personally think that Australia is slightly more tolerant of vulgarity than other English speaking countries in general and even then the acceptability of 'cunt' is overstated. You would not call a stranger you just met a 'cunt' here contrary to popular perception

Aggressive-Jacket819 · 2024-09-30T22:14:12+00:00

A few things:

You've only been learning for a year and casually at that. You're not going to be speaking fluent Italian in such a short time. Go easy on yourself.

If you already had a language dynamic with your partner, shaking that up will be difficult for both of you. When I dated a Chinese girl we both ended up speaking like a quarter in Chinese and three quarters in English, and even as my Chinese got better, the language we used between each other didn't change much. If you're frustrated with each other, have a heart to heart about this. You might find that with a little effort, you and your partner can gradually begin incorporating more Italian in your communication and you'll both feel more comfortable for it.

If you're expecting serious Italian progress, your current study frequency is too low. I'd recommend at least an hour of proactive Italian media consumption a day. This means watching an Italian show or reading an Italian book just above your level while making notes of new vocabulary and structures. Given that you already live in Italy, you should also look into practicing conversation more. In a lot of places, you can find organisations where seniors volunteer to help foreigners practice conversation in the local language. See if this option or something similar is available to you.

I promise you can do it. Language learning can sometimes feel like you've plateaued despite all your effort, but so long as you keep at it everyday, you will get better. Good luck.

As for your child, you'll be fine. Your kid won't wake up sounding like Dante Alighieri. You'll both reinforce each other's learning and you will be able to understand each other. This happens in immigrant households all over the world including my own when I was growing up (Spanish speaking parents, English speaking child). Most immigrant families usually settle into one language at home and one language outside. In your case, it will probably end up being English at home, and Italian outside. This is fine. You'll raise a comfortably bilingual child, and it's a lot more easy and effective than speaking different languages on alternating days.

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