How comes there are so many Japanese who write very good English but who can't really pronounce well ?
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English is a very difficult language to learn, and one of the many resons for this is that English has so many sounds which speakers of other languages don't generally learn to produce.  In Japanese, for example, there is no 'l' sound.  When an English word containing l is written in katakana, which is the alphabet in which most Japanese first encounter English words,  the character which SHOULD have an l sound is replaced with a character that actually has an r sound.  For this reason, gettings ls and rs confused is one of the most common mistakes Japanese make when speaking in English.  The other part is that English simply has more different types of sounds than Japanese does, and it's easy to get confused about pronunciation.\n\nThe simple answer: English has many sounds which can't be written in Japanese; and even when Japanese  people branch off from katakana and learn to use the Roman alphabet, there are still so many different sounds in English that some of them are easy to forget.\n\nOn an interesting footnote, it is also very difficult for Japanese people to end words with letters that aren't vowels.  The only consonant that can end a Japanese word is n, which is why many native Japanese speakes will accidentally throw a vowel sound at the end of a word which shouldn't actually have a vowel sound at the end.  They are simply not used to all of those extra consonants.
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You probably refer to Foreignese: if a speaker of a foreign language does not understand you, you will suddently start speaking LOUDER and slower to them...\n\nIt's very interesting and everybody seems to do that, even people who are not US Americans or other native speakers of English.\n\nMaybe it's some kind of patronising or caretaking discourse they are adopting?
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'Y' don't people learn how to spell and make complete sentences?
206053
The lack of the ability to speak the English language sufficiently.
878860
you might try learnig to spell JAPANESE first- just a thought
851865
It's almost impossible for any woman other than a Japanese woman to get a decent corporate job in Japan. It's hard enough for Japanese women. They would have already used your two spelling mistakes to disqualify you.
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I'm afraid that some of us (foreigners) actually know a little English, and most of us seem to be able to spell a lot better than most of you from what I can see here.
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You asked "is Japanese easy (to learn)?" I have learned Japanese for more than two years and I can tell you it is not easy at all. It isn't like English--You can study all the grammar at the first place then the problem is only about vocabulary. Japanese grammar system is very complecated.  English native speakers may not understand its honorifics! However, comparatively speaking, Japanese language is somewhat easier for the Chinese or Korean.
284397
I often wonder why their reps do not speak English very well.  If they DO speak English well, then it is their personality that strikes me as "hot" or not.
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Probably \n- 90% is Japanese.\n- Nearly 100% of them speaks Japanese.
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The reason is very simple. Non-native users of the language normally tend to spell by the sound rather than focus on punctuation and/or spelling. And with English being the global language that it has become, native users should be a bit more considerate, taking into consideration that they are in a state of being able to decipher what actually is meant to be conveyed by the non-natives.
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That's certainly true in some ways of writing Japanese. There may be other languages written that way as well, that I'm not aware of.
820686
The majority of native English speakers cannot speak any language but their own........ I let that be their own problem, not mine.\n\nI'm Dutch and I'm happy that I learned to speak more than one language.
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Japanese, the main reason for this is that it is a fun langague to speak, but it also allows you to work internationally, and then help whatever company you are in reach globally.\n\nPersonally, most companies where i'm from look heavily on people who know more than one language, and will often put them in higher positions to be able to use such abilities.
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can you speak or read / write the japanese, if so go to nippon@nippon.com there you can chat all the japanese people you want
193446
Perhaps they can't spell?
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English is a tricky language. Many words have silent letters so its important to listen to the pronunciation so that you say the word right.