As one of recent dendencies in Japan, more and more companies are emphasizing the importance of mastering English due to improve the international competitiveness which is the most concern for current Japan. Indeed, learning another language, most likely, English is a must, an inevitable key to survive economically for the future. However, I doubt that most people fully understand what it means to catch up with this incrediblly fast internationalization.It's likely that learning English is enough to compete with other countries, but obviously it's not enough because english is only a part of tool to communicate with the world. After all, it's just a language, that's that. There is necessity to comprehend various cultural background in each country. And, we shouldn't focus too much on only english, rather should learn another language besides englsih nowadays. In this sense, Japan is terribly left behind compared with other developed countries.
Moreover, another point that I'm concerned is that we should make it sure what kind of position to take in terms of leaning english. Even though I mentioned above, "language is just a language", leaning another language itself more or less can be cultural enlightenment of the place where that language is mainly spoken. I love learning other languages, for example English and Chinise, yet to be honest, as for english, I sometimes hate it. It's because some people take english only as imports from Western Countries, mostly U.S. For instance, when it comes to study abroad in order to improve English or whatsoever, it's still maintream to go to U.S..... according to my personal assumption, the definition of "foreign country" is so grossly one-sided especially among people who have never been abroad. "Foreign country"can be wherever outside of Japan, plus "foreign people" can be from anywhere, Asia, Africa, Middle East... In such a internationalized world, that image should be removed right away; otherwise, we'll be just absorbed by the Western Country.
The flexiblity and adaptivity of other languages and cultures will play an important role regarding international competitiveness from now on.
Well...my thoughts are messed up in this post, sorry!:( There are too many things in my mind to sort it out, hahhhaaa.
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