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My sense (as a Japanese expat) is that the smaller and closer to China the country is, the more serious people there are thinking about moving out of the countr
by flakiness 2y ago
My sense (as a Japanese expat) is that the smaller and closer to China the country is, the more serious people there are thinking about moving out of the country as a risk management, encouraging them to learn English harder. Another good example is Taiwan. It has a lot of good English speakers in its highly-educated cohort.
Japanese people aren't that serious about moving out (at least my generation. Your people look a bit different though.)
- fnord123 2y agoThat breaks down as soon as you leave Asia. In Europe, most people attribute it to whether the country prefers subs v dubs. SK and Taiwan use subtitles for foreign media so they hear English language. In Japan, it's more common to dub. This is mirrored in Europe where countries using subs (Norway, Sweden, Netherlands, etc) have better English language skills than dub countries (France, Germany, Spain).