Hi! My name is Cait Hoffmann and I graduated from UVM with a BA in Japanese in 2010 and moved to Matsumoto, Japan (Nagano prefecture) in August of 2010 to teach English in public junior high schools. I went through a company called Real Communication Solutions, stayed for eight months, and absolutely loved it. RCS […]
Archive for April, 2013
Cait – Teaching English in Japan / Graduate School
Posted in Teaching English In Japan on April 14, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Brian – Teaching English in Japan
Posted in Teaching English In Japan on April 9, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
1. Would you please share how you find your job? – I found a job working for an eikaiwa (English school) online. I googled “teach English in Japan” and found the company I worked for as one of the first results. I did some research on English teacher sites and forums (example: gaijinpot.com) and compared […]
Eric – Teaching English in Japan
Posted in Teaching English In Japan on April 9, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
1) Currently, I am working part-time for a company that dispatches me to elementary schools in the Yokohama area. The pay is quite wonderful for the amount of work that I do and the job is a lot of fun but at sometimes is stressful because kids can be a handful and sometimes they have […]
Tyler – Teaching English in Japan / US Military
Posted in Teaching English In Japan, US Military on April 7, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Over the course of about four years, I worked for 2 different contracting companies and one private English school in Japan. The private English school was just a tiny little building with two rooms where people came to practice English conversation. I would not recommend this type of work. The contracting companies sent me to […]
Mike – Teaching English in Japan / Japanese Company
Posted in Teaching English In Japan on April 6, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
What is it like to work in Japan and/or for a Japanese company? The answer to the question about working in Japan really depends on what kind of job you have. Working as an 英会話 teacher with a bunch of other foreigners is a lot different than working as an English teacher in a junior […]
Eric – Teaching English in Japan
Posted in Teaching English In Japan on April 6, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Interview from 2009 Major at UVM? Major: Studio Art Minor: Japanese (I had more credits in Japanese than art) How many years of Japanese at UVM? 4 straight years of Japanese, except one semester was at Kansai Gaidai. Study abroad? Where and how long? 1 semester at Kansai Gaidai, in Hirakata city, Osaka. Language What […]
Zach – Teaching English in Japan / US Air Force
Posted in Teaching English In Japan, US Airforce on April 6, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
I found my job by browsing the internet. There were jobs for teaching centers such as AEON, and GABA, but also jobs like the one I had for Interac, where you taught at a local school somewhere in Japan. Most jobs like this refer to you as an Assistant Language Teacher (ALT). I think searching […]