コンピューターを使う人は多くの流行語を用いるが、他の人が理解できるかどうかは怪しいものだ。の英語

Computer users have so many buzzwords, it's a wonder if anyone else can understand them.

Because people in the world don't speak the same language, much effort is now devoted to translation.

Because people in the world don't speak the same language, much effort is now devoted to translation.

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

However, when listening to an unknown foreign language, our ability to discern different words is lost, and we recognize speech as being a stream of sounds without many pauses.

And even outside these nations, English is perhaps more widely used as a medium of international communication than any other language.

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

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".

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

Many parents want to learn English and let their children acquire the language in a serious setting.

The command of communication skills in multiple languages is essential to any company providing goods and services on the world market.

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

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.

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

speech that differs from the usual accepted, easily recognizable speech of native adult members of a speech community

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

Most people say that the best way to learn a foreign language is to learn from a native speaker.

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.

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

It is very hard to master a foreign language that you begin to learn after entering college, but it is by no means impossible provided that the will is there.

When children speak a different language at home than with their friends, they usually become more proficient at the language they speak with friends.

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

The organizer said, "It's interesting to see the slight differences in the ways the two countries interpret the same compound."

The missionary who had a hard time trying to learn Japanese thought that it was a language invented by the Devil to frustrate humankind.

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

Quite a number of Japanese intellectuals are under the false impression that their culture can hardly be appreciated by foreigners.

One of the reasons Twitter is popular in Japan is a characteristic of Japanese itself: Japanese uses ideograms which enable it to convey more information in just 140 characters than other languages, not counting Chinese. Incidentally, the Japanese version of this sentence is written with exactly 140 characters. How many characters does it take in other languages?

Many people easily understand the injustice of the current language situation in the world where English dominates. But they also see the collective advantages, as for example a relatively good and direct communication between intellectuals and leaders of different languages through the English language, and the personal advantages as their own knowledge of the English language. About a neutral language such as Esperanto, one does not know much and does not seek information.

"What do robots sound like when speaking English? Do they speak smoothly?" "More than you."