2006-10-14 00:04:40 · 8 answers · asked by bogsDgreat 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Other - Education
You think that's bad? Americans, Aussies, Brits, Canadians, and South Africans all speak poor English as well!
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2006-10-14 00:13:08 · answer #1 · answered by Jack430 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Philippines according to a survey before. Almost every Filipino can understand English and can communicate in English in a clear manner. Since Pre-school up to the end of the student's year, English is a part of the curriculum. That's why many foreigners are astonished when they talk to a Filipino in a foreign country in a very fluent manner. They can also easily adapt to any accent of talking and sometimes imitate the accent easily. Singapore too speaks good English. Very clear too. This is a no-bias approach.
2016-03-28 08:41:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually they speak a lot better English than most of us are ever going to learn their language. I used to work for a major IT/computer company. I monitored global WAN's. I dealt with people from all over the world especially Asia Pacific. You have to develop an "ear" in order to understand each accent but that's true of any language.
People make fun of the Japanese because they can't make the "R" sound. That's because there is no "R" sound in their language. To a major extent, the sounds you make depends on where you place your tongue. In regards to tongue placement,
the closest the Japanese have to an "R" sound in their language is the "L" sound. So that is what their tongue does. It moves to where they say the "L" sound.
I had friends (one of whom was a native Japanese) try and teach me Japanese. The Japanese speak a language that does not put "accents" or emphasis on individual syllables. So every syllable in every word gets the same "emphasis". That's tough to do. Also I found I couldn't even hear some of the distinctions they make in sounds. If you can't hear the sound, you can not reproduce it.
They told me that some forms of Chinese were even harder to learn as the only difference in some words was in that pronunciation of sound of which I couldn't even hear the difference. What looks to be the same word in some forms of Chinese may have many different meanings that depend solely on a very slight difference in pronunciation - a difference that many English speakers can't even hear.
So I, for one, don't throw stones. No matter how bad you may think their English is, their English is better than your or my Japanese, Thai, Cantonese, Mandarin, Vietnamese, etc. will ever be.
2006-10-14 00:27:18 · answer #3 · answered by Spiritual but not religious 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i worked for an IT firm at singapore for a while, i would say people who can handle english well may be 1-3%. I would call it manglish(mandrin-english),at same time if you go to delhi you get world class english.
2006-10-14 00:16:57 · answer #4 · answered by howsureyouare 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Guess its the same reason western, english speaking countries don't speak good sinhalese.
2006-10-14 00:11:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
'asians' speak better english than native english speakers speak any asian language, overall.
btw, asia is an entire continent... you seem to think it's all one community.
how good is your hindi or mandarin?
2006-10-14 00:11:21 · answer #6 · answered by velvt_wi 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
you are wrong. come to india and see we speak better than londoners'.
2006-10-14 00:11:33 · answer #7 · answered by Pirate of the Bassein Creek 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know.
How is your Japanese?
2006-10-14 00:11:58 · answer #8 · answered by mmd 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋