The 2008 (and 9) weaboos learning Japanese thread *chairs are thrown at miles*

Everything I've ever read and heard about JET leaves me to believe that it's the horribly frustrating, low-paying and fast-tracked way to get yourself sent to east buttfuck for a year.

I'm unintentionally living the internet dream, being on exchange in central Tokyo and living in an apartment here 10 minutes from my university by train.

If you really want to come here for whatever reason then teaching English should pretty much be your last resort. You're not going to make an impact on your students (like anybody wants to do it for the love of teaching English) and chances are you'll get placed somewhere where you wont be able to court your dream submissive wife, or make sugoi nihonjin tomodachis

p.s. if you're a fat greasy nerd you're going to be one here as well. I live in Harajuku the self-proclaimed weird fashion and subculture capital of Japan, and being a furry, fatso, pierced and dyed freakshow just gets you pity and carefully guarded asian sneers, not acceptance.

p.s.2 if you really want to speak the moonspeak properly throw out genki and yookoso. You can't learn a language from one textbook and that kind of study isn't going to work

How ya doing, buddy?

no no, I'm not one of those morons who think you can magically learn everything perfectly by immersion.

I just mean as far as textbooks go, those are standard issue, comes-as-a-sample-in-the-mail books when there are a bunch more appropriate and useful things available that are often online at no cost.

If you want to go the way of piracy you can get giant torrents of Japanese learning materials (search for this exact text) that are around 1gb or more with a hundred other textbooks that will do a better job, with videos and mp3s. Basically all I'm saying is that if you use a single textbook, chances are you're going to learn some idiosyncratic Japanese that won't enable you to have a conversation with a real person.

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