Language school. Is it the best option?

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1. This is a copy of your post for archive/search purposes.

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   **Language school. Is it the best option?**

   What I found out so far:

   – The language school is not a real thing, it’s only for a VISA (apply for 1 year to find a job in progress)

   – Monthly expenses around 120,000 yen

   I still have questions, tell me + I give introductory:

   – I studied Japanese for about 5 months on my own every day, now I regularly communicate face-to-face with the Japanese on discord without using translator on topics convenient for me (available with my vocabulary), I didn’t measure my level like N5 or N4, I don’t know

   – I prepared the perfect letter (tested by a Japanese) to send to vacancies. I had one job interview in English, but failed the test, in other places they ask if I can pass the interview in Japanese, but it seems to me that I can’t, I’m afraid if some unknown word will pop up in a conversation that I don’t know and I will die instantly.

   Question:

   – Saving money for a language school, then applying for a student visa, then coming and looking for a job inside Japan – is it the best solution for me at the moment? Did I understand correctly that a language school is the most obvious ticket to Japan, or is it far from obligatory and, in case I am still invited to work, can I bypass the language school?

   – I checked different schools, somewhere the cost per year is 3.000.000¥, somewhere 500.000¥, can you recommend any particular school?

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2. That’s immigration fraud mate.

3. >The language school is not a real thing, it’s only for a VISA

   This sounds like visa fraud.

   If you want to get a job/working visa, ***get a job***.

   As we’ve said thousands of times before: Being physically present in Japan is not going to help you get a job. If you’re qualified for a job that will hire foreigners you can get hired from your home country.

   > I studied Japanese for about 5 months on my own every day

   While that is a good start, it is not *nearly* enough for working in a Japanese-speaking office.

   >I regularly communicate face-to-face with the Japanese on discord without using translator on topics convenient for me

   Again: Good start, not enough. Being able to converse about *only* topics of mutual interest is not a valid metric for language fluency.

   >Did I understand correctly that a language school is the most obvious ticket to Japan

   No, it’s not. The most obvious ticket to Japan is ***getting a job***.

   Speaking of a job: You spent a lot of time writing about your borderline fraudulent language school plan, but you didn’t say anything about what work you actually want to do.