My idea about education in Japan I've lived in 19 years here in Japan and been educated as a typical Japanese student. And now I'm 19 and came to tink anout our counties' education. I think, Japanese

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My idea about education in Japan I've lived in 19 years here in Japan and been educated as a typical Japanese student. And now I'm 19 and came to tink anout our counties' education. I think, Japanese education is not good in terms of language education. This problem has made a lot of controversy here, this means lots of Japanese think this's not good and should be improved. Japanese government and companies have emphasized English's importantness for our future. But the way they teach English to us is totallly crazy, wasting time and means almost nothing. If you have Japanese friend, you may notice that they can read English but can't speak English at all! If you don't, take a look at our president in interenational council, you'll see, it's so embarassing for us though. Of course we can't, cause we just have learned lots of words and read so gramatically made sentenses and it's gramatical structure which teachers take our 6 years. No speaking. How is it possible to speak fluently? How's your countries' education of foreign languages? I'm really curious about it.

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My idea about education in Japan

I've lived 19 years here in Japan and been educated as a typical Japanese student. And now I'm 19 and came to think about our country's education.
I think, Japanese education is not good in terms of language education. This problem has made a lot of controversy here, that means lots of Japanese think this's not good and should be improved.
Japanese government and companies have emphasized English's importantness for our future. But the way they teach English to us is totallly crazy, wasting time and means almost nothing.
If you have Japanese friend, you may notice that they can read English but can't speak English at all! If you don't, look at our president in interenational council, you'll see, it's so embarassing for us though.
Of course we can't, because we just have learned a lot of words and read so gramatically made sentenses and it's gramatical structure which teachers take our 6 years. No speaking. How is it possible to speak fluently?
How's your countries's education of foreign languages? I'm really curious about it.

My idea about education in Japan

I've lived in Japan for 19 years, and I was educated as a typical Japanese student. And now I'm 19 and came to think about our country's education.
I think, Japanese education is not good in terms of language education. This problem has made a lot of controversy here, this means lots of Japanese think it's not good and should be improved.
Japanese government and companies have emphasized English's importantness importance for our future. But the way they teach English to us is totallly crazy, wasting time and means learns almost nothing.
If you have a Japanese friend, you may have noticed that they can read English but can't speak English at all! If you don't, take a look at our president at the interenational council, you'll see, it's so embarassing for us though.
Of course we can't, cause we just have learned lots of words and read, so gramatically made sentenses make gramatical sentences and it's gramatical structure which teachers took our 6 years. No speaking. How is it possible to speak fluently?
How's your countries' education of foreign languages? I'm really curious about it.

僕はスペイン人です、私の教育はことが良いです

Even though I'm not a native english speaker I can speak fluently because in my country english is teached as a second language, I studied half of my subjects during high school such as biology or history in english and having the same number of english lessons such as spanish. But now, many children study everything in english except Spanish language and maths (the hardest haha). I consider spanish education good when we talk about languages but the system is not good at all, there is too much failure between children and many people can't finish their obligatory education. I bet this happens because many people have difficulties and because we are lazy too haha, many spanish people would kill me for saying this. and also the government doesn't help :(

Our president and none of the people who are politicians can speak a second language, when they go to another country they speak spanish and say a few words like "Thank you, hello, nice to meet you" in the country's language, it is sooo embarrasing for us, you can see this example of our president in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjpfTuPVQ54 (many people over the social medias made fun of this, because in Spain japanese culture is very well known and some people like to act as japanese saying basic japanese words while they talk in spanish and it gets a bit annoying)

I think that japanese is a difficult language that makes difficult to their speakers to learn another languages, also, japanese people have their own social medias where they not connect to people from around the world, such as niconico, LINE or ameba. English is used as a global language to communicate with the world and at the moment, Japan does not need (or dont want to?) that.

Here is the summary in Japanese about what I wrote in English and what I came up with later. 日本人がそれなりに英語を話せるようになるには3000時間の学習が必要と言われています．検索すれば多くの情報を得られるでしょう．時間で考えれば以下のことが分かりやすくなります．学校教育で英語学習の時間は６年間で1200時間程度です．この1200時間はヨーロッパの人にとっては言語の類似性により十分な時間です．彼らはもちろん英語を聞いたり話したりする機会もあります．６年間で毎日英語を自習するとさらに1200時間追加されますね（これは学生には相当な量だと思います）．これで2400時間です．さらに３年間のスピーキングとリスニングの練習をして，始めて3000時間です（毎日１時間練習すればほぼ２年ですね）．これは単純な計算ですので，本当は全てのことを同時に学習する必要があるでしょう．学校で習う文法は英会話においても重要です．受験などで英語を猛勉強し，これは学生には相当な量に見えます．しかし後によい英語話者になるには実はこれは大した学習量ではないと私は思います．

I'm Japanese. Let me write this in English so that everyone can understand. First, you need to know how long is needed to be a good English speaker for Japanese people. This is based on the difference of these two languages and is different from learning English for Europeans for example. In general, it is said that at least 3000 hours is needed. You will find a lot of information online about this. Japanese people learn English for 1200 hours in the school curriculum for 6 years (Do a simple calculation). This 1200 hours is enough for Europeans because of the similarity of their mother tongues with English. They also have opportunities to hear and speak English. The grammatical knowledge that Japanese people learn in the 6 years is definitely needed. Unfortunately, we do not have extra time to spend speaking and listening practice at school. If you want be a good English speaker, first master what you learn at school. If you study everyday, this gives you additional 1200 hours in 6 years. Then, practice speaking and listening for at least 3 years. All of these make 3000 hours. This is just a rough calculation so you should study everything at the same time.

@Catherine Our emvironment is like yours. We're surrounded by Japanese. Perhaps you're right.

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