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NOVA 34 or 37 lessons???

 
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Nugget



Joined: 24 May 2006
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 10:33 pm    Post subject: NOVA 34 or 37 lessons??? Reply with quote
Hello,
Just wonderin whether anyone out there with NOVA at the mo could help me know whether the 34 lesson contract allows for significant saving at the end of the month in the Osaka area or for a similar area in terms of cost of rent and food, etc...or whether 37 lessons are needed to make any sort of significant savings
(when i talk about savings im not thinking about saving loads and yes ino that if i want to save then NOVA or other eikaiwas arent realli the best way to do it...just curious as to the extent of any savings possible)
~Thanks
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bornslippy1981



Joined: 02 Aug 2004
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 2:07 pm    Post subject: Re: NOVA 34 or 37 lessons??? Reply with quote
Nugget wrote:
Hello,
Just wonderin whether anyone out there with NOVA at the mo could help me know whether the 34 lesson contract allows for significant saving at the end of the month in the Osaka area or for a similar area in terms of cost of rent and food, etc...or whether 37 lessons are needed to make any sort of significant savings
(when i talk about savings im not thinking about saving loads and yes ino that if i want to save then NOVA or other eikaiwas arent realli the best way to do it...just curious as to the extent of any savings possible)
~Thanks


This question gets asked every few weeks. Try searching for previous threads.

To give you a very basic answer, which you'll find on each thread, it all depends on your lifestyle. I send home close to 150,000 Yen per month, and I'm on a Nova 40-lesson contract (for another few days, yippee). I also don't live in their accommodation, go out every single night, or buy a lot of things I don't need.

I am able to save a lot because I have a few private lessons, and my rent is dirt cheap for the Tokyo area. I cook breakfast and dinner at home most of the time, and buy something small for lunch. When I go to clubs I've already drunk a pint of vodka or bourbon so I'm not paying outrageous drink prices to get a buzz.

I've met some people who teach at Nova in Osaka, and they say Osaka is an easy town to blow your cash. The same could be said for Tokyo, but I think at first it's overwhelming, and you need to establish where you like, and what you want to enjoy. If bars with foreigners are your thing, there are plenty. If chatting in a cafe with somebody is your thing, you'll find 50 ouside every station. Since Osaka is smaller - and some people will probably say otherwise - there aren't as many areas to go out. The Yamanote Line in Tokyo takes an hour to circle the city, and with the exception of a few stops, there are plenty of places to check out.

Nobody can answer the question of how much you can save. I had about $2000 saved in the bank at home so I wouldn't have to worry the first 6 months about sending anything home. It took me about 4 months to figure out how much I could save each month, and only recently have I been sending home so much. At a minimum, I can send home 75,000 Yen each month.

The difference in a 34 or 37 lesson contract is about 15,000 Yen per month, so depending on how much you want to save, it could make a difference.
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Teababy



Joined: 19 Apr 2006
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 2:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
In 11 months I saved 1.6 million yen (about $18,000 Australian at the time). There were a couple of months when I was sending home over 200,000 - that was when there was O/T work going begging. I was taking maybe 1 day off a month and getting about 305,000 in my pocket. Then the O/T dried up, but by then I was pretty well settled on my savings objectives and didn't bemoan it. I sent home about 140,000 a month after that and was living on about 80k a month. It helped that I wasn't going out much, had a stay-at-home-a-lot girlfriend and that Japanese alcohol gave me the shakes - nervous twitches or something (to this day, I have no idea what the problem was, but it stopped soon after I quit drinking).

I also took a trip to Korea and one to Nagano during that time.

I was in Tokyo, living in Nova accom (higher rent, but it wasn't worth paying the start-up costs of moving to my own place) at 55k a month, and taking home 220k a month after medical, tax and rent. That was for a 40-hour week.
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