Comments on: English ability of the next generation

By: rockiestone

rockiestone — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:33:56 +0000

According studies say that at a young age is best to learn a language
This is when the human mind is developing and at this time should learning a new language begin before the brain hardens Duh!

By: Hotaru

Hotaru — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 07:46:50 +0000

I don’t think starting at a young age will help all that much. They need to completely reconsider the curriculum and the teaching methods. Just trying to make them learn the language with the same ineffective techniques will have little impact on the situation as a whole.

By: rockiestone

rockiestone — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 11:17:22 +0000

And another fault of the education system here is the absolute failure to teach the English language from a young age!
That has to occur, because this is when the human brain is rapidly developing!
They say the best age is I think between 1-6 years!

Just like an outdated PC, the education system is that same thing!
The education system, so far, creates people geared for the manufacturing area but majorly fails to to create people for other
areas such as the Einsteins, the geniuses, PHDs, Da Vinci`s, Mozart`s etc… The Monbusho is not being smart about it lately and
I blame their laziness, not spending the money where it should and just acting with neglect.

By: rockiestone

rockiestone — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 03:00:24 +0000

See the very bad part is the education system is a big FAIL, it only focuses mostly on reading and writing! Which causes most to have so much trouble speaking and listening!　It`s the Education Ministries fault who seems to be majorly slacking off about spending on education!
Then there are those who can`t even speak their own opinions properly, even in Japanese! Sad dude!

Thing is they hit the studies quite diligently in high school,then college becomes nothing but a party and being all lazy. Another FAIL!

By: Hagoromo

Hagoromo — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 01:32:06 +0000

It is a published fact (I’m afraid I don’t have the source handy), that Japan is the 2nd worse country in Asia for acquiring foreign languages with only North Korea being worse.

By: Charltzy

Charltzy — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 11:00:21 +0000

So the Native English speaker said “Harro” on that TV show you saw??!

That is awful if true. He’s clearly been in Japan too long….

By: rockiestone

rockiestone — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 17:26:41 +0000

And the low birthrate is just making it much much worse!!
This is a very serious problem that people are sadly ignoring and don`t seem to care about!
Ashamed

By: rockiestone

rockiestone — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 17:25:28 +0000

People`s English skills here are just beyond horrific…it`s just sad
Seems the current generation is not as bright as their ancestors and definitely a lot more lazy!
But education, yes, is the key for sure!