I went to Russia last summer with my family.

People were very friendly and nice.They actually smiled a lot on the contrary to the stereotype!

One thing I noticed is that the employee in the bakery shop or mom and pup one didn't ask "How are you?" unlike fastfood stores in America or Britain.(Pls note that I don't blame your culture.I just point out the culture difference.)

Btw during trip,we dined out with some Russians and became friends with them.

One of them visited my country Japan one month later) It was excellent experience.

A friend of mine from Ukraine got the job in China and she's working at an English language school now.

I think China,South Korea and Japan would be a vast opportunities for you because there are a huge market for teaching English.Or you can teach here.

Good luck!

All humans interact with others less and less as their environment changes.How many of your classmates do you still keep in touch after the graduation? How many of your ex-coworker do you still text?

People won't meet each other unless they are not real friends. That's what I learned from my school life.

As to online communication,it's pretty bizarre to talk with others in crackling audio)) Making connection online is pretty difficult due to time difference and language barrier and on and on. But same is true for real meet up.

So I think it's up to your day whether you feel connection or loneliness)

What I found in the solitude is that you can have your own time. I read great books and form the new ideas.Then I can enjoy talking with new people or old friends with capitalizing my new thoughts)

I will run out of languages if I didn't form the new ideas.

I would like to give the hug to immigrants coming to Japan.

Specifically because Japan is pretty unique culture which I suspect they don't have chances to get the enough data and information in comparison with American or other multi-cultured countries.

So currently the news is amplifying the immigrant issue.But if you zoom out the picture,root cause are found in economics structure and inequality issue.

Between 1975-2015 the annual odds of being killed in the U.S in an attack by foreigners or immigrants was just 1 in 3.609,709.So technically no one have been killed apart from 9.11 for 30 of those 40 years.

The other data suggests that immigrants are less reliant on social welfare program than American citizens.

A thing concerning me is the automation is expected to decimate the job with cognitive repetitive and repetitive manual.Soft skill is obviously vital part in societies. I think the government and private sector must go hand in hand in order to tackle these challenges.

blade runner

I agree with you in terms of the prediction.

If you read the book about the consciousness,for instance, then new book about the same theme would be easy and language the author use would be pretty similar.

"The langauge of science is using a limited vocabulary mostly familiar to you."

>Arkaaito

"So, I think it depends on what you do with the language."

I also thought of it too. It's really up to who we are.

Learning language illuminates your true nature of your mind in your native language in my opinion.

Thanks for correction.

But I guess "several months back" is heard quite a lot among Americans))

Yes,we can)) During listening to the book,we can work out))