Thread:Yatalu/@comment-1709282-20150519112528

Thank you for the welcome (and for persuading me to come here in the first place). I don't know how useful I'll be here. It's not possible for me to produce the characters needed to write French, Spanish, Catalan or Esperanto on my keyboard, so I'm unlikely to do much translation into those languages. In the unlikely event that someone wants translation out of those languages into English, I can do that. Of course, I also have plenty of experience proofreading and correcting English texts written by non-native speakers, both in real life and on wikis.

I'm writing to you here because I think it's the best place to respond to the comment about becoming a language teacher that you left on my wall on Community Central. I have been teaching English as a foreign language for nearly eighteen years now (including two and a half happy years in Japan) and enjoy it very much. If you haven't already, I recommend that you get some experience in private tutoring to see if language teaching is for you. See if you can give Dutch lessons to any other students at your Japanese university. I'd be very happy to answer any more specific questions you might have about your possible future career. 