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NGP · Joined: 14 May 2004 Posts: 14 Location: Planet Earth

Hi,

Ill be coming to China with my Japanese girlfriend next year. While it will be fairly easy for myself to line up work, im a little worried about her. She is a uni graduate and has high level english ability. Do any of you know what the job front is like regarding Japanese?

A long shot?...........

Nauczyciel · Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2004 7:55 pm Post subject:

Well, I remember reading university ads about hiring English and Japanese teachers... One of them was Guangxi Normal University, if I remember correctly. I think your girlfriend doesn't need to limit herself to teaching English. If you are lucky enough to land a job in one of those universities, she'll be able to teach Japanese while you'll be teaching English - seems fairly good deal to me! And if she happens to have a degree in information technology or something like this, the sky is the limit Smile

Roger · Joined: 19 Jan 2003 Posts: 9138

Japanese is the second most popular foreign tongue here. My neighbour is a Japanese woman teacher married to a Chinese - amazing!

But, to some extent, she must be prepared for a lot of negative biases against Japanese! I don't know how she is going to take that!

nolefan · Joined: 14 Jan 2004 Posts: 1458 Location: on the run

my uni brought in a Japanese teacher this semester and I know that she receives quite a few offers from other schools to come in a teach part time.

If you're looking to line up a gig at a Uni, I'd say mention her and let them know that she's willing to be a teacher as well. Shouldn't be too hard since Japanese is the second most popular foreign language outside of the big 3

Madmaxola · Joined: 04 Jul 2004 Posts: 238

Big coastal towns, especially Dalian, hire japanese to come teach- I'm sure some language school woudl be thrilled to have English and Japanese covered by you two.

Roger · Joined: 19 Jan 2003 Posts: 9138

I answered this before, but strangely, my post has not been entered?

OK, again:

There are some universities that have a Japanese language programme on offer; Japanese is the second most popular foreign tongue and draws huge crowds, really!

There is, however, some angle that you cannot ignore: there are strong anti-Japanese resentiments here, which are growing rather than dimming.
On the other hand, my next-door neighbour is a Japanese woman married to a Chinese husband. They get along pretty well. I admire this Japanese lady!

NGP · Joined: 14 May 2004 Posts: 14 Location: Planet Earth

Thanks for all your replies. Seems alot more promising than I thought.

Captain Yossarian · Joined: 05 May 2004 Posts: 385 Location: Dongbei

Yes, Dalian is a good choice.

Shenyang, Harbin and Changchun also have large numbers of students studying Japanese.