"Don't you think that people from English-speaking countries earn an unreasonable amount from the English language industry? Since I'm Japanese, I'd like to use materials exclusively made by Japanese people." "But you know, you can't really tell if the English is good or not unless it's been checked by a native speaker." "What do you mean by good English!? English used by native speakers? Are natives really that great, anyway?"の英語

"Don't you think that people from English-speaking countries earn an unreasonable amount from the English language industry? Since I'm Japanese, I'd like to use materials exclusively made by Japanese people." "But you know, you can't really tell if the English is good or not unless it's been checked by a native speaker." "What do you mean by good English!? English used by native speakers? Are natives really that great, anyway?"

Of course it's a good thing when someone learning a foreign language tries to use it without fear of making mistakes, but I don't think much of people without sufficient ability producing language learning material of poor quality.

"I am sorry for my odd Japanese. But I cannot speak English." "Hey, can I ask you something? Are you Japanese?" "No. I am an alien." "Ah, I gotcha! I'm a fox, and I'm still trying to learn human languages, so I get what you're going through. English is so friggin' hard, isn't it?"

Although most of the content and thought has not been dependent on any language, when focusing on Japanese, differences in syntactic structures or the fact that individual words are not written separately and distinctly then requires several points of consideration.

Yet Japan is still not sufficiently understood by other countries, and the Japanese, likewise, find foreigners difficult to understand.

In the past, there were no oral English classes in high school. Now many schools have oral communication classes.

Another tendency of many Japanese that bothers foreigners is to make statements that are too general and too broad by using or implying words like "all" and "every".

Asking a non-native French speaker to translate a document into French is like asking an accountant to build you a house.

Asking a non-native French speaker to translate a document into French is like asking an accountant to build you a house.

Japanese speakers of English often have difficulty in dealing with informal conversation, such as at parties or in small informal groups.

Hiring a non-native French speaker to translate the document into French is like hiring a carpenter to fix your leaky faucet.

No nation can exist completely isolated from others.

It's very easy to sound natural in your own native language, and very easy to sound unnatural in your non-native language.

Japanese children brought up overseas sometimes face great difficulty in adjusting themselves to Japanese schools after returning, even though they have a perfect command of Japanese.

Though Japanese has borrowed heavily [a great deal] from Chinese and English, only a few Japanese words have entered other languages.

A Chinese college student said, "Japanese anime is much more beautifully drawn than Chinese anime. Recent problems in the relationship between China and Japan don't affect my love for Japanese anime."

No nation can exist completely isolated from others.

If you truly want to upgrade your language skills, then translation might not be the best way to do it, but you're really just playing around, so I believe that if you find it fun, then more power to you.

Though this may sound like special pleading, coming from someone who is himself an English teacher, I think the teaching of English will become more important in this country.

People in such countries, especially the ASEAN countries, believe that the secret of Japan's remarkable economic growth is education.

Foreigners in general don't need as many compliments as Japanese are required to give each other, and it is good to keep this in mind.

The Japanese watch Japan too much and don't know the situation overseas. Koreans watch Japan only and don't know the situation of their own country.

It was about the year 2000 when I remember doing my first trip to Korea. Using my limited Korean, I had lots of trouble asking for basic things like where the train or bus were, and even what the way was to places. I remember lots of people responding to me in English, and while I was pretty relieved at that, I’ve gotta say: people in the country right next to us, speaking a language from peoples on the other side of the world! It’s only when you look at it in that objective state of mind that you realize how strange that is.

Learning from your own traditions, not just from foreign cultures and modern technologies, will give you a broader view and a more flexible way of thinking.

I am a native Japanese-speaking woman. But even though this is the case, I sometimes still make small mistakes when I am writing or speaking.

The difficulties of the Japanese language prevent all but a handful of foreigners from approaching the literature in the original.

Japanese culture is very diverse and each person has his own opinion or feeling about it.

I've heard it said that English is for making money, French for making love, and Spanish for praying to God.

Mastering a foreign language means mastering the four skills of hearing, speaking, reading and writing.

Fundamentally, you're not practicing anything by translating, so even if you say that you can't do it, once you've set your sights on a similar sentence you've seen before that is more natural yet does not quite convey the original sentence's nuances, translation proves to be an act that is quite addicting.