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Autumn Early Bird Campaign – Secure your room NOW at BORDERLESS HOUSE Share House

Are you ready to embark on a life-changing journey filled with international connections, cultural exploration, and unforgettable experiences in Japan? BORDERLESS HOUSE is thrilled to announce our exclusive Early Bird Campaign, offering you the perfect opportunity to secure your spot in our housing in Tokyo before anyone else!

Details of the Early Bird Campaign

BORDERLESS HOUSE wants to help those who wish to reserve a room in Japan soon to secure their future plan! Therefore, we are launching this “Autumn Early Bird Special “ for people who will be coming to Japan from overseas this coming Autumn.

・Usually, we can only keep the room free of charge for 2 weeks, but with the “Early Bird Special”, BORDERLESS HOUSE will hold the room for you for up to 1 MONTH!
・ You don’t need to worry about paying extra fees because of booking a room too early!

Requirements and Conditions

Early Bird Campaign starting from July 12th, 2024 can only be applied for the following customers & conditions:

● Those who can move in by October 5th, 2024
● Overseas Customers Only
● Postponement of the move-in date is NOT allowed.
● Change of the share house of the room is NOT allowed.
● Cancellation policy: No refunds after the reservation is confirmed after the Skype session.
● Eligible Share House Area: All areas (Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe)

※Ineligible Share Houses: Shinjuku Honancho, Shinagawa Oimachi 1, Omori 2, Omotesando, Ueno Tabata 3, Asakusabashi, Jimbocho

What is BORDERLESS HOUSE? International Share House in Japan

Borderless House is a renowned and innovative share house community that caters to individuals seeking a unique and international living experience. Borderless House offers a diverse and inclusive environment where residents can connect, learn, and foster friendships across cultures.

At Borderless House, residents have the opportunity to live with like-minded individuals from different backgrounds, creating a vibrant and multicultural atmosphere. Whether you are a student, professional, or digital nomad, Borderless House provides a supportive and exciting community that encourages personal growth, cultural exchange, and lifelong connections.

Key features of Borderless House include:

International Community: Borderless House brings together individuals from different countries and cultures, creating a global community that celebrates diversity and fosters intercultural understanding.

Fully Furnished Rooms: Each room within a Borderless House is thoughtfully furnished, providing residents with a comfortable and convenient living space. From cozy private rooms to shared facilities, Borderless House ensures that residents have a welcoming home environment.

Shared Spaces and Facilities: Borderless House offers various shared spaces and facilities, including communal kitchens, living areas, study rooms, and even social spaces for events and gatherings. These spaces are designed to encourage interaction, collaboration, and the formation of lifelong friendships.

Language and Cultural Exchange: Borderless House actively promotes language and cultural exchange opportunities among residents. Through organized events, language lessons, and informal interactions, residents can enhance their language skills and deepen their understanding of different cultures.

Convenient Locations: Borderless House selects prime locations within cities, ensuring easy access to transportation, amenities, and local attractions. This allows residents to fully immerse themselves in the vibrant surroundings and explore Japan’s unique offerings.

We look forward to seeing you in Japan!

Whether you are embarking on a new adventure, studying abroad, or seeking a cross-cultural experience, Borderless House provides an inclusive and supportive environment where you can create lasting memories and forge connections!

Don’t miss out on this incredible opportunity to be an early bird in our diverse community. Embrace the chance to create lifelong friendships, experience different cultures, and make unforgettable memories that will shape your life.

Use the BORDERLESS HOUSE Early Bird Campaign and secure your place in our exceptional share houses in Tokyo. Be part of a community that transcends borders and celebrates diversity like never before!

Check the availability of rooms right now by clicking the link below！
● Share Houses in Shinjuku area
● Share Houses in Shibuya area 
● Share Houses in Shinagawa area
● Share Houses in Ikebukuro area
● Share Houses in Ueno area
● Share Houses in Roppongi area

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Borderless House Internship | Internship in Japan

We’re looking for《Business Development》 《Branding》 《Marketing》  interns to help us build brand awareness and spread and share our vision, mission, and values with the world!

If you like our concept of Borderless House or if you want to experience working in Japan, don’t miss this opportunity!

About Borderless House

BORDERLESS HOUSE is an international share house where young people from all around the world gather together under the same roof to share life and exchange different cultures. 

Our vision and mission are to create an open-minded multicultural society that is free of discrimination. So we promote this kind of community that is built on mutual understanding and active participation. We aim to provide our tenants with great experiences that they can not acquire if they live alone, so we focus on the quality of our house community rather than just offering accommodation.

Benefits of doing internships

Job experience

Job listings often describe requirements such as education and minimum job experience. If you are entering the workforce for the first time after college or a vocational training program, you likely do not yet have the required experience. An internship is a perfect way to fill that gap. You can gain valuable exposure to how a business in your chosen field runs, take part in meetings, and perform assigned tasks in a real-world setting.

Access to a variety of tasks and expand your network

You will be assigned to different tasks, some might enable exposure to people in various businesses and corporations. You might have chances to get valuable connections to your future jobs.

Help guide career goals

During your education, you may study a variety of subjects to determine your interests. An internship offers a diverse set of experiences that presents multiple career options. An internship can give you job experience by introducing you to daily rigors and tasks without a firm commitment to that precise career track. It can help you decide if certain jobs fit your personality and your talents.

Build a strong resume

This valuable job experience enables you to fill out your resume with honesty and specificity. Not only will you be able to add the duties and projects from your internship to the experience section of your resume, but you will also be able to more clearly describe your objective for a permanent position.

Build confidence

The internship gives you a chance to help apply the skills and knowledge you have been studying to a practical situation. You may gain excellent time and task management skills as well as learn about valuable collaboration and cooperation skills. If you think of an internship as an extension of your education, you are likely to have a whole range of confidence-building attributes to apply to your future employment.

What you can experience through Borderless House Internship

  • • Chances to gain verbal and written communication skills, both internally and externally in Japanese    
  • • Chances to attend company’s meeting to learn business “KNOW-HOW”
  • • Chances to expand the social connections by meeting people from all over the world
  • • Chances to  participate in all the events, or seminars that are held by Borderless House and Borderless Japan

What you can get after completing the internship

✔Internship Certificate
✔Letter of Recommendation

Borderless House Internship Responsibilities

You will be responsible for developing brand strategies, promoting brand growth and expansion, and conducting market research in your own country/region.

For 《Branding》《Marketing》, you will need to create interesting and engaging content for online marketing to grow our audiences and help convert them into our customers and active fans; for《Business Development》, you will be developing new business partners for Borderless, such as communities, organizations, schools, agencies or other companies.

You should have command of best practices and trends in marketing, enjoy being creative, and do your best to develop our brand’s voice across blog content, social media posts, or any other forms of your choice!

FAQ

Is it a paid internship?
The interns are unpaid. We look for opportunities that allow our interns to gain the best possible experience. The true focus is on immense professional growth! Our goal is to provide our interns with real-world responsibilities and the skills they will need for their future careers. Also, provide a place where you can use your creativity to realize your dream and speak up about your thoughts and vision.

Will I require a visa to do this internship?
You will not require a visa to complete an internship.

Where is the working place?
It’s basically a virtual internship in which you can work remotely from anywhere! We have offices in Tokyo and Kyoto, if you’d like to work at the office, we could also arrange it for you.

Is there a minimum/maximum age requirement?
We welcome young people who’s age is from 18 to 35 from the world to join this internship program.

Are there language level requirements?
The main language we use for communication is English, so we hope you are comfortable communicating in English. Since we are a Japanese company, we hope you can at least have a daily conversation level (N4-N3) in Japanese. (Since sometimes we hope you can participate in our internal meetings which would be mainly in Japanese.)

How long is the internship period and how many hours per week are required?
The internship period is 1~3 monthsflexibly. If there are any personal reasons and you need adjustments, we are flexible to discuss them. Because the internship will be task-based, you can adjust your working hours by yourself. 

What are working hours?
Our business hours are between 9:30 am and 18:30 pm, however, as mentioned above, since the internship will be task-based, so you will have flexible working time. However, communication with staff members and meetings will be conducted within our business hours. 

Can I receive a certificate for a virtual internship?
We will of course give you a certificate once you complete the internship. If you need a recommendation letter, we will also provide it.

Can I start off interning and switch to become a full-time worker later?

We are flexible and open to changes, as long as you are responsible and respectful of the projects and tasks. We may consider hiring you as an official full-time employee.

HOW TO APPLY

The internship hiring period starts today until October 31st.

① Fill out the form 
② Our staff will be in touch  
③ Interview meeting 
④ Internship Starts

Are you interested in Borderless House Internship?

If you would like to know further details about Borderless House Internship or if you are interested in applying for it, please contact us here! 
>> Internship Inquiry Form

Of course, please feel free to ask us via the form if you have any questions too.

We will be in touch soon once we receive your inquiry! Looking forward to hearing from you!

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Language Exchange｜How should I prepare for Language Exchange and practice speaking?

Do you want to practice your speaking skills for free through “Language Exchange” and meet new foreign friends, but don’t know where to start preparing? Or have you tried “Language Exchange” before, but after encountering some difficulties in the process, and you just left it at that?

Then this article on language exchange prep will help you a lot!

What is Language Exchange?

Language Exchange is a reciprocal activity in which you practice the language that you are learning by chatting with a native speaker or someone who is fluent in that language. In addition, to quickly improve your speaking skills, you can also learn cultural knowledge not found in textbooks and make new friends, which is a great way to kill two birds with one stone.

Am I a good candidate for language exchange?

When you want to practice a language through Language Exchange, here are some tips you can check to see if you are a good candidate.

1) What is your purpose? Do you really want to practice the language? Or do you just want to meet foreign friends?

Because Language Exchange is not mandatory, there must be a strong motivation to learn each other’s language in order to be sustainable.

2) How is your language ability?

Usually, I suggest that it is better to have at least a daily conversation level, so that you can correct and improve your speech step by step during the conversation. Otherwise, it is easy to keep speaking only one language with each other.

3) Do you like to interact with people?

In fact, Language Exchange is also a kind of meeting internet friend activity, whether online or face-to-face, the first meeting will inevitably be awkward. So before participating in Language Exchange, you can ask yourself, do you want to meet a new stranger? Will you be curious about your partner?

What to prepare before Language Exchange?

The preparation content will vary depending on the length of time you work with your language partner, and is divided into early and late stages：

Early-stage：

1) Confirm meeting time and language appointment (1 hour of full Chinese conversation, 1 hour of full foreign language conversation). And set an alarm before you start so that you don’t forget to change the language when you’re having too much fun conversation.

2) Usually, the first meeting is just about introducing yourself, why are you learning this language? What are your hobbies? Where have you traveled to? What kind of music do you prefer? Basically, it’s the same as a blind date, in the process of talking to each other to find out what you have in common and whether we have a mutual connection because this part will also affect the subsequent contact.

Late-stage：

When you get to know your partner better, you will gradually start to run out of topics to talk about, so it is very important to prepare some beforehand.

1) Note down any problems of language learning that you have, such as being unsure how to translate a sentence or whether there is a more authentic way to say it. You can also bring your own textbooks or assignments and discuss your questions together.

2) If you have a grammatical problem, try not to ask a native speaker, because they usually don’t know how to explain it, either. Unless the partner major in linguistics, otherwise a lot of time will be wasted trying to explain grammar.

3) Share something interesting that happened recently, or any interesting articles, news, videos, cultural differences or interesting topics to discuss. It is better to have questions with a little depth, such as environmental protection or social issues, so that you can practice expressing your own ideas, and hear the results of your partner’s opinions from different perspectives.

4) Write an exchange diary! Language Exchange is not only to practice speaking, writing is also a very important part of it. You can write a short article about your reading experience or a movie afterthought. Gradually your writing skills will be greatly improved without you even realizing it!

5) Let’s hang out together! Hiking, movies, museums, whatever you and your friends like to do, invite your language partner to go with you as well! Since you’re going out together, you don’t have to be too strict about which language you speak for how long, so just switch between them! Be flexible!

6) Register for the language test and get certified! You can practice for the content of the exam, with specific topics and sentence patterns. When you are under pressure, you will be more prepared for each Language Exchange!

What should I pay attention to during Language Exchange?

1) When introducing to each other, observe the language level of your partner and adjust your speaking speed according to the language level, pronouncing your words as clearly and standardly as possible.

2) When practicing the language, instead of expressing yourself in your native language, ask more questions so that your partner can answer his/her thoughts more often. For example: Why? What do you think? What would you do?…etc. Try to use these questions often.

3) Use the cloud notepad to record words or sentences during the meeting, so that you can easily re-read them afterward.

Where can I find a Language Exchange partner?

Nowadays there are many ways to find language exchange partners, through mobile apps, websites, or by staying in a multicultural share house.

APP& Website recommendation：

1) Hello Talk: You can send texts, voice messages, voice calling, and video calling, and you can also help each other fix sentences, translate, and other auxiliary functions. You can also upload pictures and short articles. The overall function is very similar to Instagram.

2) Tandem: It is very similar to the function of HelloTalk, except that this app will actively send the notification about the info of other members to increase the chance of matching.

3) HiNative: It is a Q&A platform where you can ask questions about grammar, wording differences, or articles, and there are usually enthusiastic answers from native speakers.

4) BORDERLESS HOUSE: It is a multicultural share house with locals and they also organize a variety of events and provide free Language Exchange opportunities from time to time.

BORDERLESS HOUSE is an international, multicultural share house with locals. There are 17 houses in Taipei City and overseas branches in Tokyo, Osaka(Japan), and Seoul(South Korea).