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In this episode, I explain what led me to come to Japan in the first place. www.pera-pera.org/shadowenglishpodcast.

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Transcript:

If you listened to my previous episodes, you probably know by now that I live in Japan. I just wanted to give a little background about why I decided to move here. I am from America originally, and I moved here in 2009. I never planned to be here this long, nor did I plan to move here. I was inspired to apply for an English teaching job because a good friend of mine from college had done a study abroad program at Waseda University in Tokyo. And he told me how great Japan was. I applied to an ALT program with a company I will keep anonymous. Ah, I should probably explain what an ALT is. Basically they are like a voice box of the English teachers here in Japan. Many Japanese people can’t speak English well, and even those that major in English and are English teachers may have poor pronunciation. So …ALTs assist the Japanese English teachers with teaching the class. But sometimes ALTs are just used to read the scripts from the textbook.  That is why I said we are like the teacher’s voice box. In any case, when I applied to the ALT company, I did so half-heartedly. I didn’t think much of the application, and didn’t think I would hear back from them. But lo and behold, they contacted me a few weeks later. And the rest is history.

Okay, maybe I’ll talk more about my personal life in future episodes. But I don’t know. I don’t really like talking about myself too much. I’m not that interesting..ha… Alright, everyone. Have a great day!

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