請教一段關於語言的中翻英(10點)

Question

有許多的東南亞國家都曾為英語系國家統治過，英語已形同是他們的母語之一。他們學習英語的環境是和我們迥然不同的。相較於日本，我們就幸運多了；因為日本人受其母語口音的影響，說起英語要比我們費更大的力氣才能讓別人聽懂。

↑↑上面這段，主要是第一句請教教我，因為我對時態很不熟，如果主詞是東南亞國家，應該就要用被動語態，又要用過去式，怎麼拼都拼不出來= ="

謝謝!

Answer 1

Many of the Eastern-Southern Asian countries had been governed by English-speaking countries, with English pretty much used as their native language. They have a totally different environment for learning English from ours. Compared to Japan, we are much luckier in that Japanese people reqire more efforts to make themselves understood while speaking English than we do, due to the affection of the accent of their native language.

2006-10-22 14:26:20 補充：
reqire --> require