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Funny enough about the medical thing: I'm a medical student in Australia and speak Japanese. I have a few Japanese medical student friends that speak the best English at their school in Japan, but we speak primarily Japanese together. They occasionally ask me for help with medical articles from the US so that they can get better at staying up to date, and talk about exactly what you're talking about with some Japanese docs not staying current with their knowledge. Also, from a licensing perspective, we have to stay up to date in the USA and Australia to keep our license and are made to take tests to prove we are up to date, whereas in Japan, if you get your license there once (as you would when graduating, completing the national licensing exam, and finish at least 2 years of post-graduate training) you never have to sit for continued medical education exams to prove that you are on the up and up with current medical practices. Hence why you can find some docs that are operating on very outdated knowledge and maybe aren't so nice. I went to a doctor in Japan before for some pretty bad migraines, and the first doc essentially told me "you're a man, tough it out" and sent me on my way, and the second one about a 1/3rd of his age actually tried to help with the right type of medication haha
Personally, I speak 3 languages including Japanese and I believe regardless if they need to or not, learning languages can only ever be a positive thing. It expands your mind in ways nothing else can and is unbelievably valuable skills to have. Language is power.
@deker0954 I learnt Japanese inorder to be able to marry my wife and communicate with her since her English isn't strong. The other two languages I learnt growing up. So Unless you count "Learning" as a hobby....
@@KennyCronin-wq8xq I need to have an interest innthe language if i am to properly learn it. Unfortunately i don't have much interest in speaking Mandarin so I probably wouldn't be able to
My government decided that in order to measure academic progress in young children they should perform regular formal testing. No extra funding or resources were distributed amongst the schools but expectations were that there should nevertheless be a steady improvement. There wasn’t. An Irish teacher told me that it was like keeping a pig and never feeding it, weighing it constantly and wondering why it was losing weight. Similar echoes to the Japanese government’s approach to the learning of English.
English proficiency in China has also taken a dive. This seems to be mostly related to COVID and increasing geopolitical tensions with the West. The government is encouraging exports to shift from going mostly to the US and Western Europe to the Global South. On the other side of the coin, there are efforts being made to encourage more tourism from Western nations through VISA free policies etc. It will be interesting to see the trend for English ability in China and Japan over the coming years.
This reminds me of our Canadian French classes. English-speaking Canadians have to take French classes in school but few go on to actually learn how to speak French. I've taken 4 years of French classes and never got close to speaking it because I wasn't interested in it. Mandarin, on the other hand, I could see myself becoming fluent after just a couple of years.
Ed I had to laugh when you were getting annoyed by the sat nav. Such an Aussie response to swear at it. I’m guessing even though English is bad in Japan your passing on the language to your kids? It will make a great bond with them and help their future.
I live in the United States, I know how to speak limited Japanese. How often do I have the opportunity to use Japanese ?, once in 8 months. ( unless I meet Anime fanatics)😉
Yeah Sweden in 4:th 😊 Oh btw I have start to notice that Japan has start use nordic åäö in stuff. The othere day I found an avatar called "Själ" (soul). But is this observation something you seen also?
Å is unique to Swedish and we use it to represent the length Ångström in science. Umlauts are also used in other Germanic languages. Häagen-Dazs is made-up pseudo-Scandinavian made by an American. Eüpa is an electric appliance company in Taiwan. The world thinks umlauts as representative alphabets in Germany and Scandinavia, and anticipates high quality and good design.
@@Catnip-es8nx Well I seen both Malström and Själ that is Swedish in Japanease worlds in VRChat so I get the feeling ÅÄÖ and Nordic is coming into Japan more thats why I ask.
@@arinhjorulfr Nordic culture is probably more popular in Japan than in North America and in other Asian countries. Some popular novels and anime are based on Scandinavian countries.
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Funny enough about the medical thing: I'm a medical student in Australia and speak Japanese. I have a few Japanese medical student friends that speak the best English at their school in Japan, but we speak primarily Japanese together. They occasionally ask me for help with medical articles from the US so that they can get better at staying up to date, and talk about exactly what you're talking about with some Japanese docs not staying current with their knowledge. Also, from a licensing perspective, we have to stay up to date in the USA and Australia to keep our license and are made to take tests to prove we are up to date, whereas in Japan, if you get your license there once (as you would when graduating, completing the national licensing exam, and finish at least 2 years of post-graduate training) you never have to sit for continued medical education exams to prove that you are on the up and up with current medical practices. Hence why you can find some docs that are operating on very outdated knowledge and maybe aren't so nice. I went to a doctor in Japan before for some pretty bad migraines, and the first doc essentially told me "you're a man, tough it out" and sent me on my way, and the second one about a 1/3rd of his age actually tried to help with the right type of medication haha
Personally, I speak 3 languages including Japanese and I believe regardless if they need to or not, learning languages can only ever be a positive thing.
It expands your mind in ways nothing else can and is unbelievably valuable skills to have. Language is power.
Sounds like a hobby.
@deker0954 I learnt Japanese inorder to be able to marry my wife and communicate with her since her English isn't strong. The other two languages I learnt growing up. So Unless you count "Learning" as a hobby....
@@invaderIRK1For me learning is a hobby.
@@invaderIRK1learning is my hobby.
@@KennyCronin-wq8xq I need to have an interest innthe language if i am to properly learn it. Unfortunately i don't have much interest in speaking Mandarin so I probably wouldn't be able to
My government decided that in order to measure academic progress in young children they should perform regular formal testing. No extra funding or resources were distributed amongst the schools but expectations were that there should nevertheless be a steady improvement. There wasn’t. An Irish teacher told me that it was like keeping a pig and never feeding it, weighing it constantly and wondering why it was losing weight. Similar echoes to the Japanese government’s approach to the learning of English.
English proficiency in China has also taken a dive. This seems to be mostly related to COVID and increasing geopolitical tensions with the West. The government is encouraging exports to shift from going mostly to the US and Western Europe to the Global South. On the other side of the coin, there are efforts being made to encourage more tourism from Western nations through VISA free policies etc. It will be interesting to see the trend for English ability in China and Japan over the coming years.
This reminds me of our Canadian French classes. English-speaking Canadians have to take French classes in school but few go on to actually learn how to speak French. I've taken 4 years of French classes and never got close to speaking it because I wasn't interested in it. Mandarin, on the other hand, I could see myself becoming fluent after just a couple of years.
That's a great description: English is a garnish.
Great video! Thank you!
What they need is to have you as the advisor to the foreign minister!
Instead we have our own language called "Sumaho".
Ed I had to laugh when you were getting annoyed by the sat nav. Such an Aussie response to swear at it.
I’m guessing even though English is bad in Japan your passing on the language to your kids? It will make a great bond with them and help their future.
F'n thing!! :-D Yes, only speak English to the kids.
Was your navi giving you setsumei? 😉
I live in the United States, I know how to speak limited Japanese. How often do I have the opportunity to use Japanese ?, once in 8 months. ( unless I meet Anime fanatics)😉
its ALL GREEK to me😭
Yeah Sweden in 4:th 😊
Oh btw I have start to notice that Japan has start use nordic åäö in stuff. The othere day I found an avatar called "Själ" (soul). But is this observation something you seen also?
I think there is a soap they did that with....
Å is unique to Swedish and we use it to represent the length Ångström in science. Umlauts are also used in other Germanic languages. Häagen-Dazs is made-up pseudo-Scandinavian made by an American. Eüpa is an electric appliance company in Taiwan. The world thinks umlauts as representative alphabets in Germany and Scandinavia, and anticipates high quality and good design.
@@Catnip-es8nx Well I seen both Malström and Själ that is Swedish in Japanease worlds in VRChat so I get the feeling ÅÄÖ and Nordic is coming into Japan more thats why I ask.
@@arinhjorulfr Nordic culture is probably more popular in Japan than in North America and in other Asian countries. Some popular novels and anime are based on Scandinavian countries.
Weird, my first comment has disappeared….
TH-cam system seems to remove links or words it thinks are "inappropriate" or just random comments for no reason. Eileen, frustrating isn't it.
Is there much opportunity to teach conversational English in Japan. I would love to teach them to converse confidently 🤔
you spelled Engrish wrong