I want to learn Japanese to go to Japan!

So, we always hear about weeaboos saying "I want to learn Japanese  so I can go to Japan and teach English! I heart animu!" We've all heard it tens of times. But what ends up happening to these people? The fact that Japan has no excess of english teachers is proof enough that people don't ever make it. Much less, there aren't a bunch of weeaboos hanging out in tokyo. So it looks like most weeaboos are failures characterized by fail. But if someone WERE to learn Japanese, go to Japan, and teach Japanese, would they still be a weeaboo? Personally I think that success is the accession from weeaboo to awesome. It seems like weeaboos are pathetic because they don't make it. So does making it mean you're not a weeaboo? And what happens to all those weeaboos that want to learn Japanese, start learning Japanese, then never finish?

sup, i leanred japanes wien i was 3 yrs old lol, now i'm livn big in japan!!!! roxx with naru `~~~~

Teaching English in Japan is a pretty crappy career plan. Long hours, low income and uncertain future (there *are* too many NOVA agencies everywhere). The only redeeming aspect is that apparently, if you look OK, your students of the opposite sex will want in your pants--and that's only of concern if you're actually interested in 3d MOS.

OTOH, I have much respect for the few weeaboos who make it in Japan by working in the hobby.

Don't translators make good money though?

Hardly. Except perhaps when they have a very sought-after specialty, like law or certain areas of engineering.

So in Japan you can only be a

*poorly paid English teacher
*translator
*a person who works in the IT business (computer programmer, etc.)

Well that's uplifting...

Even if a weeaboo actually makes it to Japan, he's still a weeaboo. The only difference is that he never grew over being a weeaboo and never got demotivated trying to be 'more Japanese'.
Also, being a teacher or translator sucks no matter where you live and no matter which language you've mastered.

I figure someone may get a kick out of this:

http://gaijinsmash.net/

Its an english teacher in Japan's blog/lifestory. Its worth the read, and has some really funny posts. If even a tenth of this is true, you may wish to avoid (or maybe want to go even more to) Japan.

In the early to mid 90s, I was in high school and quite the weeaboo myself.  I had the anime tapes, the burning desire to be Japanese ... the whole package.

The whole thing is just an escapist fantasy.  The appeal of anime is that there's a huge world of dumb shit that can help one forget their troubles.

But once I got older, wiser, and less socially inept, I went out into the world and quit relying on an elaborate fantasy to make myself less depressed.  I'm pretty sure this is what happens to most weeaboos- they just grow out of it, and the desire to live in Japan disappears with the interest in everything else.

I did keep taking Japanese through college because I needed a language and I'd already picked up a little in high school, but that's really all I took away from it.  Well, that and a stack of hentai videos.  Those things were fucking expensive in the 90s!  Kids today and their free internet porn...

So, what does it mean if I want to go to Japan and teach English, but anime isn't the focal point of my life?  What if I don't want to "be a freaking nipponjin" but I just want to get out of my own country for a while.

Actually, I've already been to Japan once, and I really liked it.  I met a lot of cool people and had some nice little adventures.  I'm sure Europe is great, and I'd like to go there too one day, but right now I want to go to Japan.  Am I a weeaboo?

>>10
Yes you are. The definition of weeaboo is pretty warped nowadays. Now it means anyone interested in Japan enough to learn its language.

Luckily, no such definitions exist for any other countries yet, otherwise anyone learning a non-native language is called a ??abo.

>>11
what makes people that know english as 2nd language?

>>12

Depends on what color they are

>>12
Their job. Psychiatrists need to learn English to understand retarded amerifags.

>>12
If you live in Europe you pretty much learn English if you like it or not. I've been fluent in it since age 12 or something.

>If you live in Europe you pretty much learn English if you like it or not.

You mean whether you like it or not.

Silly Europeans.

Just be one of the best scientist or engineer, then you will be big in Japan.

Rofl.
Infact it doesn't matter in which fields, you just need to be the best!

Then it doesn't freaking matter where you go, you will be always welcomed!

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