What Japan Thinks [1] translated the results of a questionnaire about “when Japanese feel most ashamed about their lack of English”. The number one situation? “When a foreigner asks me the way and I cannot answer. ” Here's a series of comical commercials [2] from Nova, the now defunct English conversational language school, that feature similar situations.
Japan: Questionnaire about English ability
· Written by Tomomi Sasaki
Categories: East Asia, Japan, Education, Language