Company gave deadline to pass JLPT N3 by December, looking for insights on studying while working
For context, me along with 6 other guys from my country came to work for this company last year on a Gijinkoku visa. I passed N5 back home and completed studying N4 before coming here.
So, after arriving, they used mostly English with us for our convenience, so me along with others took Japanese for granted. I can make short conversations somehow but still it's difficult for me to understand completely when said everything in Japanese and situation for other guys is worse.
Also, our job often requires long business trips abroad (around 2 months at once), so when we started being paired with Japanese colleagues for these trips, since it's new kind of work, misunderstanding and lack of communication plummeted the productivity and work flow.
Because of this reason, our company gave us the deadline to pass JLPT N3 by December, and most of our abroad trips are suspended and will be based in Japan itself
I think it's really hard to do this while working full time physically taxing job with voluntarily overtime cause the pay is just ridiculous (¥1400 yen per hour for an engineering job, the additional allowances for abroad business trips are better than the salary itself around $80 per day which makes it bearable, but it's not regular). In Japan, I am always tired by the end of the day, even though I have no commute and given the fact that I live 5 mins away from the company on foot.
I know I come out really stupid for ditching Japanese in Japan, but if you could share how you guys studied Japanese after coming here and working fulltime, about the resources and text books, I would be really grateful.
Thank you