Advanced Japanese Podcast with SAYAS

SAYAS Onayami Radio #7 | Japanese students don't want to hang out with me?

Advanced Japanese Podcast with SAYAS

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お悩み原文Constantin さんI am the only international student in my lab (I am doing a PhD in Japan) and the other Japanese students never talk to me. I arrived a few months ago and they were supposed to introduce me to the city and the Japanese life, help me with administrative documents but they never did. I proposed them to do little activities on the we or just talk with me during breaks, but they always decline or cancel last minute. I even try to talk with them in Japanese (my Japanese is broken, I only started to learn one year ago). So my question is how to make friends with Japanese student as a french student ?AzelさんMy dreamlife is to come to Japan to live, but I'm 44 now, and I have so much business and stuff in Spain, so I can't leave soon. Maybe when I will be free to try to come to Japan I will be 50, maybe I will be so much old? I wanna try to start learning Japanese, because I love languages and I know that Japanese is the hardest one, and I will need almost 10 years. I'm a Spanish Philologist and I hear that in Japan, Spanish teachers are very demanded.BenefisさんShould I work as a farmer or coffee shop owner in Japan?

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お悩み原文Constantin さんI am the only international student in my lab (I am doing a PhD in Japan) and the other Japanese students never talk to me. I arrived a few months ago and they were supposed to introduce me to the city and the Japanese life, help me with administrative documents but they never did. I proposed them to do little activities on the we or just talk with me during breaks, but they always decline or cancel last minute. I even try to talk with them in Japanese (my Japanese is broken, I only started to learn one year ago). So my question is how to make friends with Japanese student as a french student ?AzelさんMy dreamlife is to come to Japan to live, but I'm 44 now, and I have so much business and stuff in Spain, so I can't leave soon. Maybe when I will be free to try to come to Japan I will be 50, maybe I will be so much old? I wanna try to start learning Japanese, because I love languages and I know that Japanese is the hardest one, and I will need almost 10 years. I'm a Spanish Philologist and I hear that in Japan, Spanish teachers are very demanded.BenefisさんShould I work as a farmer or coffee shop owner in Japan?💌 Send your Onayami to [email protected]📒 Download transcript & translation in PDF at patreon.com/SAYASJapanesePodcast(Choose Podcast PLUS Onayami Radio membership)📚Download my original Japanese cheatsheet "MOU WASURENAI" for FREEhttps://www.sayasjapanese.com/cheatsheet👩‍🏫Take online private lessons at https://www.sayasjapanese.com/lesson🎥On-demand courses of all levels at https://www.sayasjapanese.com/video-course[Coupon code for 30% OFF: YOUTUBE]

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