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Many adults in Japan complain that learning a language is too difficult because of their lack of success while learning a language at junior and senior high school. I wonder if Japanese should start learning languages earlier like many other countries throughout Asia. For example in Taiwan, South Korea and the Philippines, English language education starts much sooner than Japan. Even in a poor developing country like the Philippines you can meet many English speakers who did not spend thousands of dollars on after school classes but can speak English much more confidently. Maybe Japan has got it wrong and everyone should start learning languages at a younger age. (by Prof. Wendy Tada)
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