Comments by "belstar" (@belstar1128) on "Why 95% of Japanese can't speak English" video.

  1. I am from a small country in western Europe and most people here learn English because our local media is not very good and not everything gets translated into Dutch. in school they actually didn't try to teach me English but only French .yet my French is way worse than my English because i was just forced to watch movies in English and play video games in English or else i would just be reading some books and watching football . while there was more stuff in French than in Dutch there was way less than in English and a lot of it was translated from another language not actually made in France. but i will say i am surprised how even some smaller countries don't learn a lot of languages. like i was Croatia but most of the locals only spoke Croatian. and there were a lot of German tourists who only spoke German making things very confusing in that town. later on i went to Laos and despite the country being very poor and most people didn't even own a tv in Laos at the time they could still speak better English than in eastern Europe . because almost nothing foreign got translated into Laotian back then since there was no profit .and there were a lot of other regional languages spoken there that are very obscure and get even less support . i think that in japan they have a pretty big population and its and island. but unlike most countries japan has a tech industry and they make their own video games and great movies. video games really are some of the least translated forms of media out there. most games only have English Japanese and a few other major east Asian and European languages but for most people around the world they have to play in English. some very popular games even ignore the Japanese market like world of Warcraft and most old Japanese action games are in English despite not even coming out in any English speaking countries .but despite this Japanese is still in the top 3 languages for video games and it also affects non gaming software .and nowadays you have a lot of people trying to learn Japanese because they are fans of anime and Japanese video games because the translations are often bad .and its quite rare for a country to have this many foreign admirers so this also makes it less likely for japanese people to learn other languages
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  2. The Germans are not that good at English i got to Germany often there are always language issues even right at the border or at the airport .
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  3. I don't know about i often go to Germany to buy things since i live close to the border and they get a lot of Dutch customers. but there is always chaos because the people working in the shops only know German and and get really confused if you try to talk to them in English
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