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That is a wild claim
by jfaat 1y ago
That is a wild claim
- School-Cotton 1y agoWhich part?
- jfaat 1y ago"When a Japanese and a Chinese person negotiate they are already using English"
- School-Cotton 1y agoWhat language do you think they use? All Japanese people learn English at school; few learn Chinese as you can verify by reading about the Japanese school system from various sources including Wikipedia. Similarly in China, English is the only mandatory foreign language taught at school.
- jfaat 1y ago> What language do you think they use? Frequently, Chinese or Japanese. For example companies in these countries employ translators. Are you suggesting they rely on primary school-level English to negotiate?
- const_cast 1y agoOther countries have competent language programs, the US is pretty unique in having unbelievably shit education in foreign languages. That is to say, I would not be surprised if, in China, people are quiet fluent in English.
- School-Cotton 1y agoWho says they only study it in primary school?
- jfaat 1y agoYou claimed, without a source other than wikipedia, that everyone in Japan learns English in school. I see this [0] on wikipedia which says "a select number of public primary schools ... have mandatory English classes" [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-language_education_in_Japan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-language_education_in_...
- School-Cotton 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Japan#School_subjects_at_the_secondary_level https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Japan#School_subj... > The following is the set of compulsory subjects currently taught in the Japanese education system from the primary to secondary levels: > * Foreign languages: English (rarely: Korean, Spanish, Arabic, French, German, or Chinese)
- stickfigure 1y ago> That is a wild claim It is not. The vast majority of English speakers do not live in the US or the UK. English is the most widely spoken language in the world. If you are at dinner with people from several countries, the "Lingua Franca" will almost certainly be English. The popularity of Mandarin relies on the sheer mass of native speakers in China. That population is shrinking and that shrinking is expected to accelerate. The cultural export of China is inherently limited by its ideology - there's a reason we have (had, really) "Hong Kong Cinema" not "Peking Cinema".