The negative transfer that Japanese people are faced with when trying to learn English is really a incredible. Not only do they have a huge number of mis-leadi

The negative transfer that Japanese people are faced with when trying to learn English is really a incredible. Not only do they have a huge number of mis-leading false friends and corrupted loan words (for example the word for plug socket is "consent") but a lot of the core grammar concepts of English do no exist in Japanese. Plural/singular, subject verb agreement, perfect tenses. And on top of that the Japanese language has many fewer sounds than English. Most Japanese people will never be able to discriminate between L and R, or have a good command of all the Japanese vowels.