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Originally Posted by YoshimiTheEthereal
Oh, I'm not sure I want to live or work in Japan. I want to be sure to visit for a long time first. But to do that I want to be fluent. I also figured that knowing a foreign language like that would look good in getting a job, especially something like game design, since it is so big and a lot of company roots are over there. Plus, I really love the culture and I keep running into things to read or watch that I don't understand. It's not just for a career, it's also for personal reasons.
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I do not think you should take the attitude that you must first master the language before you visit the country.. mostly because that is really hard to do. I rarely have met a Japanese person with great English skills that has not spent at least some time living in an English speaking country. There is sooooo much you can learn by living here. As suggested before, I think a study abroad (for the language) for a year would be exactly what you need.