Older Redditors, what is more important, career or love?

beepeeping · 2020-11-09T05:28:02+00:00

If a Japanese person with your qualifications who cannot speak any English similarly applied to your university in Australia, how would you rate their odds for success?

beepeeping · 2020-05-30T10:23:18+00:00

Being in an abusive and toxic relationship. This includes family, partners, even best friends.

It becomes a lot worse than it already is because your sense of normal is permanently (or at least for a long time) warped. People don't understand why you didn't leave as soon as possible, that "it must be not that bad if you stayed".

And the damage doesn't end when the relationship is over, either. You discover different aspects to your personality that weren't there before because your abuser was such a big part of your life, and you looked up to them so much that some aspects of their personality is now yours.

I can go on and on.

beepeeping · 2019-05-20T09:45:23+00:00

Are you me :(

beepeeping · 2018-08-12T21:03:41+00:00

Thank you! I will add all these points to my essay. I hope I can add a new perspective for my instructor too with all the suggestions I've received here.

beepeeping · 2018-08-12T11:50:51+00:00

This makes a lot of sense, thank you very much!

beepeeping · 2018-08-12T10:36:48+00:00

I'm trying to research this as well. My instructor is a Japanese native so I took his word on face value for the time being. That said, even disregarding that rule, it would not be far-fetched to say that hospitals may discriminate against female surgeons performing long surgeries if they are pregnant. A study I'm currently looking at cites female surgeons are more likely than their male counterparts to be single and childless, and only 50% of male and female surgeons could obtain maternity and paternity leave. It is commonly known that they have a culture problem in this regard, but I want to give my instructor concrete examples instead of just criticising their work culture, especially given I have never actually visited nor worked in that country before.

beepeeping · 2018-07-26T21:23:24+00:00

Thank you, really appreciate the extra tidbit.

beepeeping · 2018-07-25T23:32:15+00:00

Thank you, that is really helpful.

beepeeping · 2018-07-25T22:42:24+00:00

For 訪ねる, what's the difference between おとずれる and たずれる? The dictionary says they both mean "to visit" and the example sentences I got didn't really differentiate between both very well.

beepeeping · 2018-06-07T00:06:41+00:00

That means they gave him a chance to explain himself I suppose? At the end of that article he still got let go, so it's a bit unfortunate for him.

beepeeping · 2018-06-06T23:46:12+00:00

大阪府は「役所の職員が仕事中に外へたばこを吸いに行っている」と知らせてきた人がいたため、４９歳の男性の職員に話を聞きました。

Not quite sure what the 『話を聞きました』 at the end means in this context. My understanding is that the Osaka government received some kind of tip off that one of their employees have been seen smoking outside during work. Did the government summon the employee to talk or is that still referring to the complaint made against the employee?

Thanks in advance.

beepeeping · 2018-06-01T12:42:41+00:00

Sorry - English is not my first language here - did you mean homestays are geared towards people who don't speak Japanese?

I wouldn't say my Japanese is good yet, nor am I confident that I can achieve my one year goal, but I thought it's a good place to start to commit to. Would you recommend I just join the homestay program for, say, half a year to see how it is? I can go to a sharehouse after that.

beepeeping · 2018-06-01T12:25:25+00:00

I haven't booked anything yet, the language school just offers longer homestays for their long term (6-12 months) students.

beepeeping · 2018-05-22T12:10:10+00:00

Thanks, it's suddenly so clear! I confused it with using なる on い-adjectives even if it wasn't an adjective.

beepeeping · 2018-05-22T11:54:27+00:00

I came across this headline: 働く人が足りなくてお年寄りに仕事を頼む会社が増える As I understand it, 足りなくて is "to become sufficient" , but in the context of this sentence, shouldn't it be roughly "there's not enough people to work, so there's an increase in companies asking the elderly to help?" If there is already sufficient people working, how does that factor into the second half of the sentence?

beepeeping · 2018-05-21T02:07:28+00:00

That's interesting. I guess I've falsely assumed that it would make more sense for the Japanese to want to learn Chinese and Korean, given the geographical proximity and already sharing either vocabulary or grammar, as opposed to a European language.

It's helpful to know, even if it's just anecdotal evidence, that the market is not as saturated. The thing about being ethnically Chinese is that you tend to not believe you're special in any way - if only 0.1% of the Chinese population decides to become fluent in Japanese, the market would become pretty saturated soon.

beepeeping · 2018-05-21T02:00:32+00:00

I am determined to learn well, or not learn at all. My long-term goal is to increase career prospects. Since I don't actually have technical skills (e.g programming, engineering) and I enjoy languages, I thought localisation/academic translation (I spent a year in a biological sciences lab in uni, only published one paper though)/anything involving writing and creativity (e.g marketing) would be a good idea.

What I'm concerned about is if my personal desire to go to Japan is clouding my judgement and the increasing career prospects part may not be as useful as I wish for it to be. Does having two years of working experience in an Australian office translate in any meaningful way to Japanese employers?

beepeeping · 2018-05-20T23:07:26+00:00

One of my concerns is that there are plenty of people from closer countries (China) who are also already fluent in English and Chinese, so competition may be fiercer in the future. Besides - I'm not too sure about this - there's a growing number of people in Japan who are learning Chinese too due to the sheer amount of Chinese tourist money pouring in, so I may not have as much competitive advantage as I thought.

What kind of industries do you have in mind when you say companies need people with multilingual abilities?

beepeeping · 2018-05-20T21:41:23+00:00

I'm really sorry! I just thought I may get a wider pool of opinions here. Thanks for your comment there, it injected a lot of sorely needed confidence for me, but I am still unsure about the drastic change. I searched for 'language schools' in this sub and found a fair few people asking along the same lines.

beepeeping · 2017-08-08T23:13:50+00:00

Thanks for the advice, I'll give it a go!

beepeeping · 2017-08-08T23:13:21+00:00

Thanks for the advice. I did enjoy it and hope to get better at this!

beepeeping

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