Comments by "" (@steemlenn8797) on "Why Japan's English is falling behind other nations" video.

  1. For me it was Elder Scrolls. I wanted to understand what was written there. I started as a very bad English student to having it my main subject at the end of school.
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  2.  @kgjung2310  You mean people are sick of that righ wing whining about how they are no longer the only ones displayed. If you like movie, watch it. If not, don't watch. But stop ruining people's days by that constant stream of tears.
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  3. Yeah, if oyu have English teachers that learned their English only from English teachers that have never been outside Japan... you don't get students with English, but only Jenglish.
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  4. My best English teacher was Elder Scrolls.
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  5. The main problem is getting students to speak. I know it was for me too. You just don't want to speak if you are not sure or slow. I once took a test from a university which told me I had a very good understanding of vocabulary for a native English speaker. I never have been inside an English-speaking country in my whole life. It's just exposure to other languages and reading scientific stuff. If you put me in a kitchen I would probably fail at telling someone how to cook an egg in English. So if exposure is the problem, expose the kids to a weekend of a school trip where everyone swears to only speak English. Make it a game. They can use a dictionary in a pinch, but otherwise use your head, arms, legs or whatever you can find. Everyone is the same, so it's okay. That probably makes them better at speaking than a year of classroom lessons.
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  6. English is one of the easiest langauges to learn. Japanese probably the hardest (if you include writing). That a lot of people have "help" by speaking a related language does nto change that fact.
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  7. That is true of probably every country in the world except China. It's a logical fallacy to compare number A with number B that is 100 times bigger.
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  8.  @NOAMB-h2p  Being interest in and actively doing something to get it are 2 completely different levels.
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  9. Teaching English as a foreign teacher is not a fun thing in most cases.
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