Hi there,
I wish to move Japan for a partner and long postponed wished to live in Japan. 33 years old and 8+ years in IT as a Solution Specialist. At N4 now at speaking and N2 in listening/understanding Japanese. (Lived in Japan in 2010). Short version since the longer version would take forever to explain here lol.
I’m Belgian, live in Norway and therefore I would or might be considered a non native
However, would these things count
- My father is American and grew up bilingual and have been to the US more times than I can count. We still due
- I had English at school from age 14-21 including business English since I studied Business and economics for 6 years (Masters Degree)
- I’ve lived and worked in Belgium, The Netherlands, UK, China and Norway. (Including Japan for a while as a exchange student)
- My masters degree was fully conducted in English and although expired by now the school required IELTS or TOEFL to be enrolled (hilariously easy since my English level is native)
- I speak English daily, next to Norwegian at work, and have over the last 8+ years
- While no direct teaching experience, I was offered once a teaching job in business at a university in Belgium around 2019
- at work, however, I do a lot of demo’s and in charge of explaining and integrating news IT updates and often babysitted or worked with kids through Lions Club in Oslo from challenged backgrounds.
- Back in 2010, the requirement was also that you could speak fluent English to go to Japan with Lions Club Exchange program
Would any if this matter or be worth saying?
Looking at Borderlink and others that offer jobs in Kansai since that’s the region I would need/want to live
by Porg14