The necessity of the knowledge of foreign language, particular in English, is brought home to me.
Firstly, the Olympic will held at Tokyo, 2020. So we will be communicate with English whether we like it or not because English is a dominant language in the world.
Secondly, we Japanese are faced with the globalization. We meet a lot of foreigner who speak English at all, in spite of a rural suburbs. Some one criticize this type of Globalization, but I am interested in and excited to this situations.
Today I talked to a colleague from the Philippines in English. It was great time for me because here, this rural suburbs, no one speak and figure out in English. My pronunciation is very bad because I could not get a good education. Despite my bad pronunciation, we could communicate with each other. Education of the grammer is the basic of communication.
It is difficult for me to speak Japanese because Japanese language is very complex and context-based. English is easy to express my feelings in a sense. On the other hand, acquiring the English is very hard for us, as you know.
After all, if we improve our language skills very hard, it will not be in time for the Tokyo Olympic. However, the next wave has certainly been comming. If we thinking more about the situation and prepering for, Everything will work out all right.
