Comment by jfaat
1 day 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?
1 day 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?
Other 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.
Who says they only study it in primary school?
You 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_...
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)