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Kohio
Joined: 28 Feb 2011
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Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 1:55 pm Post subject: What Impact will the Earthquake Have on ESL in Japan? |
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Will it cease for the unforeseeable future?
Will the NETs come here to teach? (Please don't.)
What do you think will happen? |
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computermichael
Joined: 01 Jul 2010 Location: Anyang
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Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 3:23 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm sure it has shaken things up a bit. There will probably be a flood of foreign teachers. |
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nukeday
Joined: 13 May 2010
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Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 3:32 pm Post subject: |
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| computermichael wrote: |
| I'm sure it has shaken things up a bit. There will probably be a flood of foreign teachers. |
Ouch.
Seeing as a lot of the damage was in smaller-mid sized towns, I don't think it's going to have a big effect. It's certainly not the end of the ESL or any other industry in Japan. |
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silkhighway
Joined: 24 Oct 2010 Location: Canada
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Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 3:38 pm Post subject: |
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| It's too early to tell. The direct impact of the quake will hardly affect the ESL industry in Japan or elsewhere, but the effect on Japan's economy probably will. It's a wait and see game. |
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ESL Milk "Everyday
Joined: 12 Sep 2007
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Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 4:58 pm Post subject: |
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| computermichael wrote: |
| I'm sure it has shaken things up a bit. There will probably be a flood of foreign teachers. |
I don't think so... long-termers with roots in their communities will probably return as soon as possible, and the short-termers are probably permanently put off the idea of living abroad, and were probably planning on going home anyway... so they'll just go home early.
It's not like the whole country has fallen into the sea... and unless there's a full-blown meltdown (which seems unlikely), the damage isn't irreperable.
I don't think most ESLers in Japan necessarily see Korea as a back-up plan, or ESL as their long-term career choice. |
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computermichael
Joined: 01 Jul 2010 Location: Anyang
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Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 5:38 pm Post subject: |
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| ESL Milk "Everyday wrote: |
| computermichael wrote: |
| I'm sure it has shaken things up a bit. There will probably be a flood of foreign teachers. |
I don't think so... long-termers with roots in their communities will probably return as soon as possible, and the short-termers are probably permanently put off the idea of living abroad, and were probably planning on going home anyway... so they'll just go home early.
It's not like the whole country has fallen into the sea... and unless there's a full-blown meltdown (which seems unlikely), the damage isn't irreperable.
I don't think most ESLers in Japan necessarily see Korea as a back-up plan, or ESL as their long-term career choice. |
Hear hear. I was just trying to make a joke about thousands of people dying without saying anything insightful. |
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cyui
Joined: 10 Jan 2011
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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 3:20 am Post subject: |
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I know this Japan...but start looking for Землетрясение в Японии in the comming weeks', the earth's natural resources are depelting down by the day..
Oil industry is going somehere in the economic billions.and it's not China..
organized crime,nuclear weapons and the organized political elitilism of the 1930's.
Look South Korea is about to get nuked. |
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Radius
Joined: 20 Dec 2009
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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 3:48 am Post subject: |
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| cyui wrote: |
I know this Japan...but start looking for Землетрясение в Японии in the comming weeks', the earth's natural resources are depelting down by the day..
Oil industry is going somehere in the economic billions.and it's not China..
organized crime,nuclear weapons and the organized political elitilism of the 1930's.
Look South Korea is about to get nuked. |
Ok, I was a little confused while reading the first paragraph, but the last one you totally lost me. Why is S. Korea going to get nuked? |
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jinks

Joined: 27 Oct 2004 Location: Formerly: Lower North Island
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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 6:52 am Post subject: |
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Землетрясение в Японии
Earthquake in Japan, apparently.
Why did you need to write THAT in Russian? Couldn't you have at least supplied a translation for those of us who don't know Russian, it would have been much more polite and made your post a lot easier to read and understand.
Kobe was a significant earthquake, and being pre-Internet it didn't get the same amount of coverage. Although this earthquake/tsunami is probably a lot more devastating I think that Japan will recover quickly, just like they did after Kobe. |
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cyui
Joined: 10 Jan 2011
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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 7:42 am Post subject: |
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Sorry guys-was make point about how the earthquake will effect Natural Resources in Asia and the oil will have to put where else for peservation purposes.
Not necessarly physically gone; maybe just systematically "changed"? |
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