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Post by Sparkles on Apr 12, 2017 14:27:51 GMT 9
My supervisor occasionally suggests making a video/vlog thing for the JET video contest and I'm just like "...would it count AS WORK? because if so I would gladly do it as a part of my job but I don't have the time or energy to make something GOOD otherwise (and if I can't make something good I don't want to make it at all)." I tried keeping a blog very briefly in my LYUUGAK days but...it fizzled and died...mostly because I needed to use my energy/time for other things.
But it would be nice to see more CIR blogs/vlogs, especially for prospective applicants. It'd be interesting to see the responses after those prospective applicants start as CIRs, though, because CIR jobs vary so wildly by placement, whereas if you're an ALT, you've got a 98% chance of doing things like teaching English, attending school festivals, and other things ALTs across the country are doing even if it's to different levels. When I think about things "most CIRs do," I'd say translation, but I think it would be a challenge to have an exciting vlog about translation. That and I'm honestly not sure how much I would be allowed to say about certain translations -- like the ones that aren't for the general public in the first place. Not top secret or anything but I probably couldn't say much beyond "...and then I translate formal letters from the governor to people like ambassadors." It could be informative, at least!
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Post by CaptainSeery on Apr 12, 2017 14:34:20 GMT 9
Some of the work I do is really interesting, and I'd like to share it with the world. But like everyone says, I don't have the time or energy to be able to do that well if it doesn't count as work. Last year I did discuss maybe doing the JET video contest thing - I'd pick up the ALTs from the BOE during a school holiday (summer vacation seems most likely) and we'd go drive around our town and take videos, and we'd work together to compile them into a nice video. But then last summer I got hit by the native check BOOK from hell and I didn't end up having time to do it  I would have liked to, and my office was receptive to it being part of work, but it was low priority compared to my other duties. |
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Post by King Quailbee on Apr 12, 2017 14:55:36 GMT 9
I did make a CIR blog in the past, but haven't updated it much because of various reasons 1). periods of feeling drained that free time would rather be spent traveling or whatever 2). anxiety getting in the way 3). unsure of how confidential some of the work needs to be; and the big one, 4). my laptop going poop early last year
I have made a skeleton of a blog/website for general CIR advice and stuff earlier this year, but that kind of fell by the wayside once I got busy/anxiety got worse. I would be happy to start working on it again (I did start up a couple of articles in my free time), but been lacking a bit of motivation for the work I need to do.
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Post by shachou on Apr 12, 2017 19:16:04 GMT 9
I vlogged a small portion of my time on JET
it's super embarrassing looking at it now
you can just search youtube for CIR JET Programme and it comes up I think...
less work and more private stuff though
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Post by Dee on Apr 13, 2017 1:36:03 GMT 9
We want to do a blog, but it will mostly be from my hubby's point of view as a stay-at-home-GAIJIN-dad in Japan. I hope to include some of my stuff as a CIR as well.
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Gloriaria
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Post by Gloriaria on Apr 13, 2017 2:01:57 GMT 9
We want to do a blog, but it will mostly be from my hubby's point of view as a stay-at-home-GAIJIN-dad in Japan. I hope to include some of my stuff as a CIR as well. That is absolutely adorable. One of my hulemdo left her job after having her first baby and started a daily blog from the baby's point of view. Now she's carrying her 3rd boy, the oldest can already type a few words on the blog himself. Blogs are easily started but difficult to maintain,  I keep a TECHOU but barely write anything interesting besides what I ate today.... |
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Post by Mumblesnore on Apr 13, 2017 8:52:57 GMT 9
I vlogged a small portion of my time on JET it's super embarrassing looking at it now you can just search youtube for CIR JET Programme and it comes up I think... less work and more private stuff though I've probably seen it. I think I've seen every CIR vlog on youtube; there aren't that many. I don't know who you are in real life though, alas. |
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Post by hohoEMIsen on Apr 13, 2017 9:36:30 GMT 9
We want to do a blog, but it will mostly be from my hubby's point of view as a stay-at-home-GAIJIN-dad in Japan. I hope to include some of my stuff as a CIR as well. That is actually VERY interesting! Looking forward to reading it! |
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Post by shachou on Apr 13, 2017 16:31:48 GMT 9
I vlogged a small portion of my time on JET it's super embarrassing looking at it now you can just search youtube for CIR JET Programme and it comes up I think... less work and more private stuff though I've probably seen it. I think I've seen every CIR vlog on youtube; there aren't that many. I don't know who you are in real life though, alas. hehe I think I'm pretty much the only kiwi CIR on youtube (at least that made videos about the JET Programme) |
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Post by Gloriaria on Apr 14, 2017 2:19:06 GMT 9
I've probably seen it. I think I've seen every CIR vlog on youtube; there aren't that many. I don't know who you are in real life though, alas. hehe I think I'm pretty much the only kiwi CIR on youtube (at least that made videos about the JET Programme) I'm very positive that I've watched your video （╹◡╹）coz I've been watching and rewatching all that I can find on YouTube just to get myself into the mindset. Here's a hug of appreciation. ╰(*´︶`*)╯♡ |
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Post by Dee on Apr 15, 2017 0:37:31 GMT 9
hehe I think I'm pretty much the only kiwi CIR on youtube (at least that made videos about the JET Programme) I'm very positive that I've watched your video （╹◡╹）coz I've been watching and rewatching all that I can find on YouTube just to get myself into the mindset. Here's a hug of appreciation. ╰(*´︶`*)╯♡ Haha, so glad I'm not the only one reading/watching anything I can find. v(^_~) |
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Post by Ividia on Apr 16, 2017 11:05:42 GMT 9
One other point I would emphasise is the confidentially aspect - it's likely that you'll be unable to talk much about work if you're directly involved with interpretation for the public, including perhaps domestic violence or legal situations (experience talking)
I feel like most of the interesting parts of my job that would make for blog stories, I wouldn't be able to talk about hue
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Post by hohoEMIsen on Apr 16, 2017 11:15:50 GMT 9
One other point I would emphasise is the confidentially aspect - it's likely that you'll be unable to talk much about work if you're directly involved with interpretation for the public, including perhaps domestic violence or legal situations (experience talking) I feel like most of the interesting parts of my job that would make for blog stories, I wouldn't be able to talk about hue I recently just started a CIR blog, but I'm not going to even state which prefecture I'm in (after getting notified). I'm also planning to misalign the dates of events. With this, is it then possible to blog about things as vaguely as I can with obscured names and places? |
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Post by Ividia on Apr 16, 2017 16:06:08 GMT 9
One other point I would emphasise is the confidentially aspect - it's likely that you'll be unable to talk much about work if you're directly involved with interpretation for the public, including perhaps domestic violence or legal situations (experience talking) I feel like most of the interesting parts of my job that would make for blog stories, I wouldn't be able to talk about hue I recently just started a CIR blog, but I'm not going to even state which prefecture I'm in (after getting notified). I'm also planning to misalign the dates of events. With this, is it then possible to blog about things as vaguely as I can with obscured names and places? well I'd say that's entirely up to you and your discretion - I post on these forums about my work, and use my judgement on deciding how much to leave out, so I'm sure you would be able to use your own  Just thought I'd let you know,there's a possibility confidentiality might come into play - if you get a very public events based position, probably not so much! |
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Post by Dee on Apr 18, 2017 23:53:50 GMT 9
Any recommendations on study materials for Japanese used in the workplace? I'd like to work on my BIJINESU Japanese  |
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Post by Gloriaria on Apr 19, 2017 8:34:52 GMT 9
Any recommendations on study materials for Japanese used in the workplace? I'd like to work on my BIJINESU Japanese There's a textbook called Japanese for Professionals(256 pages) by AJALT (the same people who wrote Japanese for Busy People series, which I have never used but I've heard good things about it) that I am currently planning on getting the digital version for, it's $25 on Amazon, pretty basic guide to business vocabulary for office workers. Another book that I'm looking at is Business Japanese (144 pages) by Shoji Azuma. Both of the two are textbook size and seems quite useful, but I haven't had a chance to look inside the Business Japanese, but I am going to check it out at my local Japan Foundation library and see if any of the two is worth buying. |
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Post by Sheepy on Apr 19, 2017 9:15:51 GMT 9
gyomu Gyomu will also give you a JET Official CIR Japanese textbook thing. o:
It has some pretty useful information in it.
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Post by hohoEMIsen on Apr 19, 2017 9:22:09 GMT 9
Any recommendations on study materials for Japanese used in the workplace? I'd like to work on my BIJINESU Japanese There's a textbook called Japanese for Professionals(256 pages) by AJALT (the same people who wrote Japanese for Busy People series, which I have never used but I've heard good things about it) that I am currently planning on getting the digital version for, it's $25 on Amazon, pretty basic guide to business vocabulary for office workers. Another book that I'm looking at is Business Japanese (144 pages) by Shoji Azuma. Both of the two are textbook size and seems quite useful, but I haven't had a chance to look inside the Business Japanese, but I am going to check it out at my local Japan Foundation library and see if any of the two is worth buying. Please update us on both books your KAMSOU when you have looked through them please! Thank you!! gyomu Gyomu will also give you a JET Official CIR Japanese textbook thing. o: It has some pretty useful information in it. Is it jetprogramme.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/2016CIR-Hand-book.pdf or something else? |
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Post by Hokuto on Apr 19, 2017 9:32:37 GMT 9
it's different, i think it's called "Japanese for CIR's" or something like that
the handbook is just in Japanese
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Mumblesnore
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Post by Mumblesnore on Apr 19, 2017 9:36:21 GMT 9
I ISSYOKENMEI studied the first three lessons and then never opened it again, hue.
However, my 辞令書 ceremony went basically exactly like how they described in that textbook, down to my mayor asking me the same question the textbook mayor asked the textbook CIR. It was spoopy.
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Post by Sparkles on Apr 19, 2017 10:34:03 GMT 9
I WOULD read the CIR Handbook hohoEMIsen linked, though. It's got a ton of different examples from CIRs across the country. The first section may seem dull but it actually has a lot of info, vocab, etc. you'll be working with once you get here. Even if it's not "studying" specifically, I'd recommend approaching it as a reading exercise and try to get through the whole thing. |
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Post by Sheepy on Apr 19, 2017 10:56:51 GMT 9
There's a textbook called Japanese for Professionals(256 pages) by AJALT (the same people who wrote Japanese for Busy People series, which I have never used but I've heard good things about it) that I am currently planning on getting the digital version for, it's $25 on Amazon, pretty basic guide to business vocabulary for office workers. Another book that I'm looking at is Business Japanese (144 pages) by Shoji Azuma. Both of the two are textbook size and seems quite useful, but I haven't had a chance to look inside the Business Japanese, but I am going to check it out at my local Japan Foundation library and see if any of the two is worth buying. Please update us on both books your KAMSOU when you have looked through them please! Thank you!! gyomu Gyomu will also give you a JET Official CIR Japanese textbook thing. o: It has some pretty useful information in it. Is it jetprogramme.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/2016CIR-Hand-book.pdf or something else? it's different, i think it's called "Japanese for CIR's" or something like that the handbook is just in Japanese What Hokuto said. |
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Post by hohoEMIsen on Apr 19, 2017 10:58:25 GMT 9
I WOULD read the CIR Handbook hohoEMIsen linked, though. It's got a ton of different examples from CIRs across the country. The first section may seem dull but it actually has a lot of info, vocab, etc. you'll be working with once you get here. Even if it's not "studying" specifically, I'd recommend approaching it as a reading exercise and try to get through the whole thing. That is exactly what I'm doing now!  |
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Post by Dee on Apr 19, 2017 22:43:35 GMT 9
Any recommendations on study materials for Japanese used in the workplace? I'd like to work on my BIJINESU Japanese There's a textbook called Japanese for Professionals(256 pages) by AJALT (the same people who wrote Japanese for Busy People series, which I have never used but I've heard good things about it) that I am currently planning on getting the digital version for, it's $25 on Amazon, pretty basic guide to business vocabulary for office workers. Another book that I'm looking at is Business Japanese (144 pages) by Shoji Azuma. Both of the two are textbook size and seems quite useful, but I haven't had a chance to look inside the Business Japanese, but I am going to check it out at my local Japan Foundation library and see if any of the two is worth buying. I'll look into Japanese for Professionals. I have Business Japanese by Shoji Azuma, he was my Japanese professor in college. That textbook does have a lot of good info, but unless it's been updated recently some of the chapters are a little outdated. |
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Post by Dee on Apr 19, 2017 22:45:59 GMT 9
gyomu Gyomu will also give you a JET Official CIR Japanese textbook thing. o: It has some pretty useful information in it. I'm looking forward to getting the Japanese for CIR textbook, but I don't think we get it until June  |
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Post by nikinee on Apr 20, 2017 8:23:56 GMT 9
gyomu Gyomu will also give you a JET Official CIR Japanese textbook thing. o: It has some pretty useful information in it. I'm looking forward to getting the Japanese for CIR textbook, but I don't think we get it until June You should get it along with your placement info from your consulate! I got mine towards the end of May, but it might be a little different for you |
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Post by Hokuto on Apr 21, 2017 8:46:26 GMT 9
i think some of the noobs on here done found me on FB haha
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Post by nikinee on Apr 21, 2017 8:53:30 GMT 9
They probably put two and two together after you posted about running for AJET in here then on Facebook |
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Post by Sheepy on Apr 21, 2017 8:59:37 GMT 9
i think some of the noobs on here done found me on FB haha You did this to yourself. |
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Post by Hokuto on Apr 21, 2017 9:18:33 GMT 9
uM wow i feel ATTACKED
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I would have liked to, and my office was receptive to it being part of work, but it was low priority compared to my other duties.
I keep a TECHOU but barely write anything interesting besides what I ate today....
