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Japan: Questionnaire about English ability

Categories: East Asia, Japan, Education, Language

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.