English teaching in Japan. Great time or Complete Nightmare???

[aquamarine]

jav.seeker: it's kind of like how Canadian school children must take French classes once per week throughout most provinces until grade 9, yet very few of us remember ANY french. I can say "Shut your hat" and "Cheese Omlette" in French and that's about it.

Kind of like how most of you yanks can't even put together a full cognitive sentence.

[Desu]

Originally Posted by aquamarine

Kind of like how most of you yanks can't even put together a full cognitive sentence.

that must be the reason why many people keep telling me that my english is good... maybe they mean good compared to their
(kind of joking, but not completely)

[Rollyco]

Originally Posted by aquamarine

most of you yanks can't even put together a full cognitive sentence.

I think you mean 'cogent'.

[aquamarine]

No no, I prefer th term cognitive It adds to those in the know.

[vantruongvu]

I think if you guy have a ability teaching English, you can teach in many international-english-school of Japan, where teach english from easy to hard, TOEFL, TOIC, ....if you are foreigner from American , England, Canada. It good for you, because this kink of school need foreign teacher, salary of foreign teacher is high because school-fee is high. But you must have a good ability in teaching English and require a bachelor dgree of teaching or higher. if you just teach private , less money is certainly. I think if you have ability teaching English, you will not regret.

[guy]

そうですね(*^ー^)ノ

[aquamarine]

I disagree. Private lessons net you much much much more than if you teach at a school. 6000 yen per hour is the average price for inexperienced teachers for a private and anytime I do them, I charge almost double. Take six thousand yen and multiply by none. Then take that days pay and do it for twenty five days a month. How's that compare with the 250,000 yen you'd make as a base salary. It's a small price compared to big English schools. If you're good then it's not overly hard to do this. If you're not good, then why are you still teaching??

[vantruongvu]

yes, i agree. private lessons one on one is much more. but how can you teach english private for japanese if you don't know japanese? if you only speak english you teach at english-speaking class and in high-level.

[Yobuita]

Just wanted to say that you don't need a degree or diploma to get a visa to teach English in Japan.

[HarutoAsou]

Originally Posted by Yobuita

Just wanted to say that you don't need a degree or diploma to get a visa to teach English in Japan.

You don't as long as you are under 30 years of age but if you want to make decent money you need a bachelors degree and to be TESOL certified.