This episode features Maya Cumins, a bilingual Japanese–English professional who studied and built her career in Japan. She shares the challenges of adapting to Japan’s exam-based university system, navigating workplace culture, and finding her voice as a young professional. Maya also explains why she left the corporate world to pursue freelance project management and how being bicultural shaped her choices.
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This episode features Maya Cumins, a bilingual Japanese–English professional who studied and built her career in Japan. She shares the challenges of adapting to Japan’s exam-based university system, navigating workplace culture, and finding her voice as a young professional. Maya also explains why she left the corporate world to pursue freelance project management and how being bicultural shaped her choices.
[KOR] Kyutae Kim - The Solitude of the Multilingual
Voices Across Borders
10 minutes
1 month ago
[KOR] Kyutae Kim - The Solitude of the Multilingual
We often assume that being fluent in a language means belonging to its society, but in reality, knowing a language doesn’t necessarily mean being able to live in or feel a true sense of belonging within that community. *This episode is the 2nd half of the conversation with Kyutae Kim, continuing from the previous episode. The summaries in Japanese and English will be posted next week. [KOR] 언어를 할 수 있다는 것은 곧 그 언어의 세계에 속한다는 뜻일까요? 실제로는, 언어를 안다고 해서 그 사회의 일원으로 살아갈 수 있는 것은 아닙니다. * 이번 에피...
Voices Across Borders
This episode features Maya Cumins, a bilingual Japanese–English professional who studied and built her career in Japan. She shares the challenges of adapting to Japan’s exam-based university system, navigating workplace culture, and finding her voice as a young professional. Maya also explains why she left the corporate world to pursue freelance project management and how being bicultural shaped her choices.
