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Japan: 26th in global English proficiency

06/02/201407/02/2014 semjapanese_meg Difficult, English, Japanese, yahoo japan

JAPAN TODAY “Japan ranks 26th of 60 countries in global English proficiency” The article says, “Japan’s EPI score in the survey was 53.21, down 0.96 points from the first edition, which used test data from 2007-2009. Among Asian countries, Malaysia and Singapore scored highest, coming 11th and 12th respectively, with Hong Kong 22nd, South Korea 24th and China 34th.” We cannot compare to other Asian countries basically. One of the reasons we’re not good at English is we don’t need to use and have chance to speak English in our daily life even in business. As you many know, Japan has a huge domestic demand which triggers us not to

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English allergy?

05/11/201311/11/2013 semjapanese_meg ad copies, English, Japanese, Katakana

If you knew something about Japanese market, you might have heard Japanese have an allergy for English. That’s true and false. The truth is that only small percentage of people speak English fluently. We have to study English for 6 years at least from 13 to 18 years old which is mandatory and no excuse. However we cannot speak and use English fluently. We have a big discussion about it. I personally think we have less opportunity to use English and we can get a great job and enough salary without English so far. The situation may change in a few years, but so far we don’t need to use