Japanese or English major?

[cstaylor]

Japanese major????? Nooooooooo!!!!!

Why not just major in Latin?

What are you planning to do with your degree?

[Taro Toporific]

Japanese major????? Nooooooooo!!!!!

Repeat after me: "MINOR"

Japanese or less-so English would ok as a minor, not a major. Learn a real skill and then add Japanese to it. Majoring in Japanese, while a noble quest is also rather futile when done outside Japan. Majoring in English, unless it's a masters in ESL/EFL, is not the wise choice either. English majors do NOT study enough of the 100-years-out-of-date prescriptivist grammar that masquerades as English education in Japan.

Here at Maybe-the-Largest-in-Japan Inc, I review foreign resumes every week. The first thing the Personel Guy does is throw out the the Japanese and English majors unless they also have some actual real-world education in the sciences, math, computers or even shade-tree mechanics.

Sorry about telling ya bad news, but you're gonna have to study a real major and then minor in languages.

[gomichild]

I did a major in German - and look where I ended up!

Do what you like to do - see where the path leads you after that...

[Big Booger]

Get a degree in anything you like. Don't just pick a major because you want to move and work in Japan. If you want that, then you should really practice hard in learning Japanese. Then join a program to come over and experience Japan firsthand. Once here, then you can get a feel for what you are good at. You could always fall back on being an instructor for a daigaku in Japan. For that, all you need is a master's degree, preferably in English, ESL, etc...
BB

[devicenull]

just do what you like or else you will end up stuck in a job you hate. japanese is scary btw.... i just had my first real kanji lesson.... it still hurts. Seven + Tires = Cooking Stove :wtf: