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Anonymous asked in TravelAsia PacificKorea · 1 month ago

Why Do A Lot of Koreans Speak Eng but Japanese Don't?

As an Asian, I wish to go to Japan & Korea one day for fun but, I don't know Korean or Japanese. I've heard that in Seoul, a LOT of people, especially younger people, DO KNOW English but in Jaan, a WIDE majority of them DO NOT know English. Why's this? Don't they teach Eng classes in Japan?

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  • Anonymous
    1 month ago

    The story is easy. This is because the IQ of South Koreans is higher than that of Japanese.It's more appropriate to call the Japanese a monkey. A liar insidious monkey.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 month ago

    In Japan

    English is ***required*** in schools

    from a pretty early age.

    Almost all "younger" people in Japan

    (age: 10 - 25)

    probably speak passable English.

    According to this

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by...

    about 15% of Japanese speak English.

    (South Korea is not listed on that chart)

    According to this, which measures AVERAGE ENGLISH PROFICIENCY

    https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/countries-that...

    Japan - 52%

    South Korea - 55%

    In other words: practically identical.

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