内容や考え方の多くは言語に依存しないものではありますが、単語の分かち書きをしない点や統語構造等の違いから、日本語を対象とする場合、いくつか気をつけなければいけない点があります。の英語

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.

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".

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

American people tend to ask broad, philosophical questions about Japan. On the other hand, Japanese tend to ask specific and pragmatic questions about the United States.

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

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.

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

There is a tendency for Japanese to want to know a certain amount of personal information about someone such as age, position and whether they are married or not, before they feel comfortable talking with a stranger.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

There I realized that what Japanese think is natural is not always regarded as natural by people in other countries.

No nation can exist completely isolated from others.

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.

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

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.

I worry that, because the Japanese lines in this site are written with furigana, they take up a lot of space, and the people who don't even care about them in the first place might find them annoying.

While American methods are often successful, the Japanese educational system that produces the most literate people in the world surely has some lessons to teach the U.S.

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