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>Many of the Japanese coders I've met have put in the effort to learn English. I put a longer response addressing this point in a different thread, but you're
by pflats 13y ago
>Many of the Japanese coders I've met have put in the effort to learn English.
I put a longer response addressing this point in a different thread, but you're interacting with the cohort that has already chosen to be a computer programmer. It's a biased sample group. I would expect people with no interest in learning English would be disinclined to even enter programming.
(This is still tertiary to actual cultural preferences in web design, mind you.)
- verisimilidude 13y agoNegative. One of the best Japanese coders I know runs his own property management business, and learned coding (and English) so he can stay on top of the various stuff he's created in support of his operations.
- resetmp 13y agoThat's one arbitrary example. It's meaningless if he represents 1 out of a 10000 sample size.
- verisimilidude 13y agoIt's anecdotal, but dispels the idea that my "sample group" was limited to career programmers, which was the point in the parent comment.
- chrismonsanto 13y agoI'd like to add to this remark that the Japanese as a whole are not as proficient at English as one might expect. I know I had some expectation that the Japanese had some working knowledge of English (maybe because many countries do encourage learning it?), but after visiting Tokyo I realized my assumption was way off the mark.