The thought of being bad at it just sticks.
Remembering all those words is difficult.
It just sounds like gibberish.
And I can't pronounce it.
Many people say that Japanese people can't speak English very well
now is that true or not? Let's go and Ask Japanese!
How is your English? - I suck at it
Why so? - I can't remember words.
I started learning it in middle school.
If you can't remember it ...
even when you get to highschool and university...
the thought of being bad at it sticks.
I hate English.
In my second year of middle school, I hated the English teacher.
He was also the teacher in charge of my school club.
It was really awkward. And that made me dislike English since middle school
and even now I don't like it.
If you have a terrible teacher, those feelings attach to the subject...
Exactly. The negative feeling just got attached to the subject. I hate it.
I hate it too.
I probably the worst out of us three.
I can't remember English vocabulary,
so sentences are totally impossible.
Even if I know the grammar, if you don't know the words it won't help.
We have to put Japanese sentences into English.
But I don't know the words, so I can't write at all.
It's totally impossible.
What's the most difficult think about English?
I think its vocabulary.
There are so many words in the English language, it makes it so difficult.
I don't hate English.
But I am still bad at it.
I don't hate it but I also can't speak it.
Foreigners often ask me to help them for the way...
but I can't speak any English.
I feel troubled.
What's so difficult about English?
The grammar is so different to Japanese.
That makes it hard.
Remembering the words one by one is hard.
I am terrible at English.
I still middle school level.
I so super bad at it - I am so super bad at it.
Two times I heard "Super bad" here.
So what's so hard about English then?
I have no clue what they say.
Grammar and everything, I don't get it.
I don't understand long sentences.
I can't read it.
I don't get the words either.
I can't deal with the English language at all.
It's the subject I am the WORST at.
The worst? Why?
I don't know how to configure it.
I have no clue how to line up the words.
That's where I stumble.
Well, it's a completely different language...
it's hard to remember and hard to study.
I don't like it much.
Are you good at English?
What?
I can't speak it.
Zero! I go abroad a lot but can't speak it.
I trie to just speak in single words.
What's so hard about English?
I think the grammar is hard.
It's hard to work out what to put in a sentence and where.
I don't get it.
Even though we will desperately try to create the right sentence...
to foreigners it will only sound like useless gibberish.
I think that's a problem. We can't express ourselves.
We have English basic lessons and English conversation lessons
The conversation one had a foreign teacher.
The class that told us about grammar, had a Japanese teacher.
Which one did you enjoy more?
The international teacher's class was more fun.
Is it important to enjoy the class?
- I guess so. - He was very friendly in explaining things.
That made me happy.
You mentioned your mean teacher. Was there a good or bad teacher?
I had a good teacher too, he used English songs.
We were singing them in class. Remembered them in class and such.
I learned not only to speak out and pronounce properly from that class...
speaking and repeating...
This made me realize how important practicing this is.
I had a great teacher in Maths.
And that made me like that subject.
I didn't have a bad teacher in my English class...
... but neither one that left a big impression on me.
So I kept disliking English class...
and so I still suck at English today.
Was your teacher speaking English in class?
I guess so. During class he tried to speak in English.
When we didn't understand, he would explain it in Japanese.
Apart from that there was actually another foreign English teacher at school...
he was speaking in English and our teacher in charge was using English too.
Was the teaching style of the Japanese and Western teacher different?
None was worse or better as far as I remember.
But the English teacher could only speak English...
but he explained it so carefully that Japanese people could understand.
The foreign teacher didn't focus on written English...
he rather focused on speaking and communication.
Which one did you prefer?
I am bad at speaking out in class in general so I didn't like it.
But I think speaking is better for learning a language.
I preferred the foreign teacher.
When you compare foreigners and Japanese...
foreign teachers are good at talking and sound enthusiastic.
Talking with them is fun.
So I did actually enjoy speaking to the foreign teacher.
Around Halloween we played a game with sweets in class...
and we handed out sweets too.
Wasn't that big a deal.
But your teacher could speak English. - He could.
Our Japanese teacher was good at English and he often went abroad.
Was there a difference between Japanese and Western teachers?
The foreign teacher tried to make the class fun.
But in university...
having an English teacher means you REALLY have to work on your language.
In that case a Japanese teacher is nicer for learning.
Foreign teachers play games and such...
so learning English was fun.
The Japanese teacher was a bore.
Why do you think so many Japanese have a problem with the English language?
The grammar has like words and verbs and I don't get it at all.
It would have been better, had we learned English properly in primary school.
Did you start English lessons in middle school?
We started at the 6th year of primary school. We should have started 3rd year really.
We keep moving up in school even though we can't speak English
and then we never really learn it.
We never revise properly.
Those were our questions. Thank you!
Why do Japanese people not really speak English or why
are there many Japanese people who don't speak English
As you could see, many were not comfortable with the English language
as much.
Many said its the words or the grammar that's hard.
I can say there is a very
heavy emphasis in Japan on the written word over the spoken word.d
Which means, some of my Japanese friends, their written English is amazing
they know really difficult words that you don't use sometimes.
But they won't speak it.
Because their teachers weren't speaking it much in class..
I have been in Japan as an exchange student...
I must say when I was there, there was a class when the teacher
completely only spoke in Japanese and that was the English class
and that was high school.
So it's a different way of teaching English. Obviously if you come from
an English speaking country you might have the same difficulties learning a new language
or secondary language.
I see that Japanese people have a problem because the ABC is very different
but in Japanese schools they are trying to change that.
Trying to implement new things.
Which means they are trying to introduce the English language earlier
so more in primary school, not from middle school.
Trying to introduce it earlier, make it more fun, have more conversation
maybe bring a foreign teacher in, so they are trying to change that up a bit.
That might be a couple of things, that might be changing over time
who knows, maybe if we ask this question in a couple of years time
more and more people will be able to speak English.
There is actually a video where we had guys who just randomly spoke English to me
and they spoke it perfectly. Always depends on who you meet on the streets
that day.
Speaking English that was the question. How about you?
Do you have difficulties with the English language?
Even maybe if it is your language...
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its ... save and safe... the director just dropped the reflection pad....
Do I still look pretty?
Anyways, let us know, do you have any trouble with English or learning another language?
Let us know, looking forward to reading your comments and catch you soon on Ask Japanese.
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