I hope I will not be flamed for making this post, although there might be many similar ones.
Im looking for the community's feedback to the plan I have lined up myself.
My plans are designed after two crieteria:
- The trip has to be largely self financing so I dont end up with huge debt afterwards.
- I want to improve my japanese
The details:
I am danish college student currently studying japanese (and economics) at Copenhagen Business School (
Asian studies Programme). I want to go to Japan for one year to improve my japanese skills. The thing that separates me from other (american) people who want to go to japan is that I will be able to speak some japanese when I arrive.
I think my japanese skills will be equivilant to JLPT level 3 (basic) in June next year when I plan go.
Besides from the japanese I speak fluent English and Danish, intermediate Chinese and German.
I don't know if I will be able to get a job as an english teacher since im not a native speaker (rats).
My own plans are still in the making but include some of the following elements:
- Get a 1 year working Visa for japan (there is a special agree between Japan, Denmark, Canada and some other countries)
- Apply to an internship at the royal danish embassy
- Send my CV to a bunch of companies and try to get an internship with partial pay
- Try to find some kind of job in Japan where I can use my japanese (possibly teaching english although I'd rather have something that looks better on the CV)
- Possibly get a homestay
- Apply for scholarships to help with financing.
Does anyone think the skills I have so far make me any better of than all the other run-off-the-mill persons?
If anyone has alternative suggestions for what I could do I would really like to hear them.