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Why can't Japanese speak English?
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Why can't Japanese speak English?
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Because it isn't a colony in an English-speaking.
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weebs
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This is because Columbus was not able to find Japan
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Is this a pen?
Yes,it is.
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bikaouzu ittsu tuu diffikaruto
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>>52342229
Because they're busy committing suicide
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs-m4BO4BGQ
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>>52342229
You seem to be capable OP
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>>52344511
zattu raito。
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>>52342229
Speak your national language and be proud.
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>>52342229
the distance of language tree from Japanese to English is the furthest. the root of Japanese language is still unknown though.
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>>52342229

Many Japanese people do not get much chance to practise their English outside of school, and even within school, the focus is on rote-learning instead of using English for every day use.

Furthermore, the Japanese language is very different from English. I know people often make the case that, for example, Finnish is very different from English and yet Finnish speakers are perfectly capable of speaking fluent English, but Finland is a very small (and wealthy) country with much more exposure to English.

We should be nice to the Japanese posters.
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>>52344524
then why s.gook good at english?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9SIVzjZhlk
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>>52344640
>We should be nice to the Japanese posters.
We always were anon?
They were just hilarious
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>>52344651
it's almost like you're saying gooks>japs, anon.
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But I'm speaking English and totally holding a Japanese passport in my hand and dick in the other.
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>>52344524
Please give me many guns in your country.
We are not busy if we do so it.
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>>52344729
I'm in Japan next year and I haven't learned shit. Well, dip the sushi into the soy fish first.
How fucked am I?
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>>52344640
>kawaii igirisu poster
^_^
>>52344702
Korea is better at being American light 2.0.
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>>52344851
I miss the Japan Korea /int/ wars
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>>52342229
Wrong English reached 1 million Japanese people.
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>>52344824
No prob.
As long as you are a foreigner you'll be treated as guest.
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Because they don't actually learn English. Japanese people think they can memorize the language and if they work hard enough at it they will be able to magically speak it. But they forget the part about practicing speaking it to actually speak it.
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>>52345335
>open dictionary
>start memorizing
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>>52345404
Its more complicated than that but it certain boils down to no more than what you said.
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Yes we can.
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The most English in Japan.

This is a pen.
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>>52342229

They view speaking English well as being unjapanese
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Examples of countries that speak better english than japan on /int/:
Russia
Brazil
Kazakhstan
Indonesia
South korea
Pakistan
Algeria

Why?
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Even if the Japanese cannot speak English in Japan, most Japanese are not in trouble in particular.
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>>52347458
The Japanese tend to be insular.
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>>52347458
good at English=/=developed country

Nigerians are good at English.
But they can't get any prize in Science
Mathematics/literature/Architecture...etc.
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>>52344676
I saw it for the first time
It is masochistic and is interesting
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>>52344607
He is weeb
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>>52342229
Because English grammar is backwards compared to Japanese.
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>>52342229
We tend to study English for an examination in Japan. There are not many Japanese who want to come to be able to speak English well. Because even if most Japanese cannot speak English as far as they are in Japan, I am not in trouble.
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Japanese can speak English a little bit.

English can't speak Japanese.
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>>52342229
Do you speak japanese?
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People in Northern European countries such as Finland or Sweden speak English as well as the British. Why?
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>>52349688
why do you english skilled anglos treat us as weeb when we dont use too awful english to even correlctly communicate with each others.
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>>52348849
agreed
and because of someone translate English to Japanese,
we aren't in urgent need to learn English.
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>>52350936
They don't dub TV or movies (except some children's shows) or translate games here so everyone is exposed to some English from an early age.
I learned a lot about English just by playing through RPGs with a dictionary when I was a kid.
Different teaching style in schools may also be a factor.
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>>52351110
we're overly self conscious because memes have taught everyone that only losers like japan, and so in order to justify ourselves we keep calling everyone else a weeb
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>>52351110
compared to koreans its impossible to decipher your messages sometimes. if there were more mainland chink posters here, i think they would have worse english than you though.
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>>52351110
he means otaku by the "weeb" word
it sounds fucking autistic
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>>52342229
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>>52352105
Thank you for answering my question.
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>>52344630
>>52344640

>Japanese grammar is consistently head-final.
>Japanese adjectives are actually just nouns and special verbs.

I don't speak Japanese yet but learning those 2 things I believe have saved me alot of grief in the future. Most English textbooks teaching Japanese appear to be full of shit and want to teach me as if I am learning an Indo-European language.
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>>52352642

Oh good. They are subtly teaching students the golden rule

"Always assume that someone with a north american accent is from canada"
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>>52352866
makes it easier for me desu
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>>52342229
not Englishman in Tokyo ,Englishman in New York.
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>>52353269
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>>52344630
僕が日本語に打ち勝つと、何でもできる
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I learned english from games
and a little from school
but my english still sucks
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I learned English by playing a lot of video games and watching television and movies.

And my parents kept telling me that was useless, bet they feel really smart now.
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>>52353747
you're still a loser, just a loser that can speak english now
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>>52353774
You're pretty much shit out of luck if you're not bilingual where I live.

You need that shit for employment.

Marketable skills and shit.
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Gentle reminder that EVERY single Jap flag is either a fat yank on a proxy or a fat yank weeb who moved there.

Report ALL Jap posts.
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>>52353588
I want to suck the breast of the beautiful woman.
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>>52353886
fuck off nonce
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>>52342229
Still speak/write better English than americunts.
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Prime Minister Abe cannot speak English, too
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>>52353886
but you never will do it
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