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Gerrard59:
I said the same when I was in Nigeria

I'm okay where I'm; almost free education, full-time job in a MNC, health insurance coverage and everything, but see me every day reading BusinessDay and Nairametrics

My prayer is that you leave Nigeria and when you do, go through the abroad and let the abroad go through you. Afterwards, come back to your statement.

How long have you been in Japan? I’m surprised you plan to come back since I’m used to seeing you, Tensa, etc doom and gloom about the future of Nigeria (Islamisation, northern rule and civil war, etc).

Or do you feel a bit more optimistic about our future?

Gerrard59:
K-drama is female dominated. Even Western females love it, ditto for Asian ladies. The opposite holds for anime as more males love/follow it than females do. So, it is not surprising our women love K-drama to the extent they grasped the language and moved to Korea. One on Twitter learnt Korean and is now a translator because of her love for K-drama without being to Korea (as at the time she stated so). Passion when invested with sheer hard work and determination would result in something positive.

As for languages to learn, if it is for hobby purposes, Japanese is okay. For economic reasons, Chinese is way better. French, to me, is a useless language to learn as the only wealthy Francophone country is France, unlike the wealthy enclaves of Anglophones and Chinese. Spanish enclaves are even wealthier than their French counterparts. The language is that useless. Also with Chinese, learning and grasping the Kanjis in Japanese becomes very easy. Chinese have it easier to learn Japanese than any other group of people.

Yes, I remember seeing a lady like that on Twitter. Last time I saw her profile (don’t remember her name), she was based in Nigeria.

Back to japa prospects; if one can learn Japanese, what would you rate the chances for study or work visa, in comparison to Chinese too?

I could try Chinese too, but I’m considering the supposition that both languages are quite difficult for English speakers, therefore my personal inclination for Japanese might make it more likely to stick to the long process. That, and browsing through some Reddit threads, people seem to think it’s better to live in Japan (putting aside China’s better economic prospects).

Gerrard59:
Someone has to set up the centre and advertise it. If recognition, not necessarily support from the JLPT foundation, can be obtained, that'd be brilliant.

At the bold: while that is a popular reason for many foreigners who decided to move to Japan, I am yet to meet an African, young, mid or old, who mentioned it as a reason for moving here and eventually living. The core reasons are business, education, and love for Japan's technology. I also find it funny because I have never watched anime or anything related to Manga. The first time I read about the love for anime from a Nigerian was from Tensazangetsu20. I am yet to hear it from another Nigerian until you.

Hopefully, it’ll happen sooner rather than later or never. My workplace always tells us to learn Chinese or French, but my heart says Japanese

Well, you’re technically right. K-drama seems more popular in Nigeria. But I had a virtual meeting in my workplace earlier this year, with hundreds of people in attendance. The organizer asked which country we would like to visit. A surprising number of people mentioned Japan for their anime and culture.

It’s kinda surreal. Most times I check TikTok, I see at least one Nigerian girl that loves Korean drama moving there for studies. They have relatively good grasp of the language too. Dey don carry am for head ehn

Gerrard59:
I had the same thought a few years ago. What I think is that Nigerians in Japan did not make efforts to establish a certified language school in the country. Another thought is that Japanese officials opposed it because had it been possible, more Nigerians would have been able to travel to Japan either for language studies or jobs. This opposition comes because there is a negative view of Nigerians especially in the Tokyo area for them being too arrogant, loud, aggressive and thieves, especially at bystanders and tourists. "The Nigerian gang" in Tokyo is an infamous phrase. The third thought, to support the first, is that Japan fell off the radar of Nigerians in East Asia as China's economy grew. Also, the Chinese were and are more aggressive/willing to spread Chinese language learning centres (backed by the central government) than the private initiative by language schools that prep for the JLPT. Your examples of the Korean and Chinese language centres are supported by their respective governments. The second thought supports my belief why there is no JLPT learning centre in Nigeria.

Nice to know.

With the growing number of anime fans and Japarians in Nigeria, I think there could be enough interest if they open centres. But as you said, there’s always the negative rep Nigerians have created for ourselves abroad. It’s too bad.

I did not see Cameroon on this list.

https://www.jlpt.jp/e/application/overseas_list.html

Oh well, I think I might go ahead with the Japanese foundation site I found.

Ok, talking about the language stuff, I just tried looking up the JPLT as someone mentioned earlier in the thread…and I noticed there doesn’t seem to be any centre for taking the exam or lesson tutorials in Nigeria? This is a bit odd to me because it seems as though we have centres for HSK (Chinese) and TOPIK (Korean) from a quick search.

So, why’s it only Japanese that isn’t available. Any alternatives? I’ve been thinking about studying Japanese from scratch next year. I found this platform (https://minato-jf.jp/Home/Back#CourseList), not sure how suitable it is.

airsaylongcome:
And when he's applying, he tells them he's happy to work as an Independent Contractor (called 1099 in Yankee).

Like in the interviews or he indicates so in cold emails?

tensazangetsu20:
I was thinking foreigners don't even follow our elections only for my boss at work to ask me how we could elect a drug baron in our country.

Seriously? Abeg, make Obi win for court. This country is looking finished.

^No need to download the legacy part btw. It's just the old version of the course.

stankelz:
bro please can you give me detailed guide on how to download courses from downloadly to my pc. I need to download it tonight. Is it downloadly.net or downloadly.ir? Steps how to go about it please

Downloadly.net.

1. Open the relevant course on the website and you will see the download links for each file.

2. What I do is to copy the link address of any file I want to download with right click, then I paste it into this software called Free Download Manager. I believe you can download it on downloadly.net as well.

3. After I download it, I simply open it with WinRAR and extract to a specific folder (my Videos folder).

And that's it.

There's the frontendmentor website for challenges like this as well.

Oh wow, I just checked again and Aìrtm is actually back as a valid means of withdrawal. This is great.

Hm. Nice and informative. A friend has had his account suspended for months now since he tried to login with two phones. I'll have to show him this.

But what platform are you using to withdraw now that Aírtm no longer works? @Fremantle

I already checked weeks ago and couldn't find the option to register with Nigeria as well.

I haven't checked the app though.

nadisms:
Pls hw do I join such channels?

I don't know o. I was trying too, but the owners always say it's only for US residents at the moment.

It's saturated for entry-level devs. Just check Reddit and you'll see CS graduates with internships applying for 100+ jobs and begging for any kind of help they can get. Not easy at all.

There's some seniors that make dedicated Slack/Discord channels for juniors to refer/recommend each other and get jobs, though I have only seen for the US. Anyway, both learning and getting a job doesn't seem to be easy at all. Let's just do our best and hope it favors us in the end.

Wow, I see blockchain enthusiasts everywhere on Twitter so I didn't think developers would be that scarce.

kdfinest:
not that I want to work but as employer. I guess I need to fund my acct/wallet Abi..hope am not getting it wrong sha.

Hmm, I have no idea how to go about that. Check their FAQs or YouTube if necessary.

kdfinest:
Good day, pls I dont know if you can explain on how to fund my pico worker account because am finding it difficult to.

You don't need to fund anything. Read the previous posts in the thread, especially by Fremantle, for better understanding.

Very nice, this thing is not easy. Is it hosted on GitHub?

This one is piracy and doesn't require you to purchase their courses, but just use downloadly.net to search for your preferred courses and unzip with WinRAR.

You have to download them first.

Fremantle:
@bolded....That's the problem with SproutGig, Customer service is down right bad. Non-Existent to a certain point.

Have you been able to make withdrawals lately? Someone told me about Lite Coin, but I'm not fully convinced.

I've not done any tasks on the site for like two weeks now since I cannot withdraw to Áirtm. I checked their subreddit and they didn't give any good reasons.

If someone can explain the process for Litecóin, that would be really appreciated.

What is this bót doing. Anyway, Áirtm is no longer working as a withdrawal option. I don't know why they removed it.

Who has successfully used Skríll.

Stormtrooper11:
It's presently not working maybe because I already have sass installed as a package but the app is still asking for node-sass

Did not work for me as well when I was trying to learn Sass. I just followed this from stack overflow.

I faced the similar issue in my local HTML Project. You should make following changes:

You should uninstall node-sass first.

npm uninstall node-sass
Install sass as dev dependency.

npm install sass --save-dev
Update your script in package.json

sass -w scss/ -o dist/css/ --recursive
This will fix the issue in most of the cases.

I think I tweaked some things, I am not even sure again but it was this post that helped me.

This was for CSS though, so I'm not sure if it'll work for your issue.

pressley06:
I find it so hard to do other jobs cos it's somehow to me, the ones I tried ended up giving me 5 Not satisfied which is why I don't really do other jobs but SEO has been my pick since I started but now, I hardly see 30 submissions a day and it's fucking annoying

Wait till the end of the month, there will be an influx of tasks. That's usually when I make the most from SEO tasks.

It's been like this for the past couple of months. First three weeks for the month are very dry.

Cyril009:
What's the name,pls ....

Lol, na the bumbum attract you ni.

It's a Japanese horror/mystery novel series called Ring, divided into three major books. Ring -> Loop -> Spiral. Focuses on several 'main' characters, but the ghost lady in the picture is the source of the mystery.

Heard there's other short stories, but haven't read them yet.

If money is not a problem, why don't you try those dedicated internet providers like Spectranet and such. I heard they're supposed to be pretty fast.

chukwuebuka65:
Some jobs require you have a degree. I think for those jobs , with these certificates, someone will have a higher chance of getting those jobs if they don’t have the degree.

Yeah, I think that would be better although I am not sure the requirement is that stringent.

I've seen freshly self-taught devs with Udemy certificates landing remote jobs on Twitter. Funny thing is that one of them claimed to have no experience on his CV and also wrote that he learned from Udemy. Also had generic projects that we're advised not to have on our portfolio (quote generators, tic tac toe, etc).

So I guess their certificates are valued enough. Although the guy had knowledge of DSA sha.

Am I the only one that can't view the employers' names for the SEO tasks anymore?

Bleach opening has a couple of spoilers for the manga. Anime-only watchers were expecting Grimmjow.

nani667:
A short horror story °°°

Hold up, I've read this novel series. Is it being adapted into an anime.

You can download Udemy courses from downloadly.net and unzip with WinRAR. I guess from Jonas Schmedtmann; there's some extra details in his CSS courses that I personally like.

Combine with w3schools or a book tho.