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Old Fri 30-Nov-07, 05:28 PM   #3 (permalink)
purrsian
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Re: Need advice - wanting to teach/translate in Japan and Australia

Yea I kind of figured it would just be Japanese people teaching Japanese, just didn't really know because I've only ever learnt Japanese at primary and high school, where I guess it's just different because of demand and the fact that it's not really aimed at language acquisition.

My Japanese is not very good yet, but I'm trying to look ahead at my goals to help me decide what to do now. I think for now, I will do a BA with majors relating to linguistics, Japanese, that sort of thing and then do the TESOL cert. I was going to do the bachelor of languages and applied linguistics, but if it doesn't really matter on the degree as long as it's relevent to linguistics and teaching, I'll go to the closer uni! Thanks for the help gfell, it's just confusing to know my options and what's best to do but I think I have an idea now

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