http://www.longcountdown.com/2007/10/25/dont-forget-your-pencil/ Nick Ramsay blogging from Gifu, Japan. Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:30:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.longcountdown.com/2007/10/25/dont-forget-your-pencil/#comment-2547 Mike Fri, 26 Oct 2007 23:46:22 +0000 http://www.longcountdown.com/2007/10/25/dont-forget-your-pencil/#comment-2547 Ahh Nick don't stress about it.. and yeah the kids arent there to learn they are there to have fun or whatever.. I love Japan, but if English was a priority the country would be completely fluent by now.. when you consider all of the money spent on English education in Japan in the past 30 years, its amazing that hardly anyone actually speaks it.... But I guess it all comes down to what the Education ministry there feels is important... University entrance exams dont test spoken English and so its not a priority... Oh well.. it's their money! Ahh Nick don’t stress about it.. and yeah the kids arent there to learn they are there to have fun or whatever.. I love Japan, but if English was a priority the country would be completely fluent by now.. when you consider all of the money spent on English education in Japan in the past 30 years, its amazing that hardly anyone actually speaks it…. But I guess it all comes down to what the Education ministry there feels is important… University entrance exams dont test spoken English and so its not a priority… Oh well.. it’s their money!

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