2003 Overseas Japanese-Language Education Org. Survey

[Schye]

The number of people learning Japanese language keep
on increasing year to year, the country with most
learners is Korea, followed by China, then
Australia.....even Thailand, Indonesia and New Zealand
have more learners than Malaysia......please see the
survey done below.


http://www.jpf.go.jp/e/japan/news/0407/07_01.html


2.35 million people in 127 foreign countries and
regions study the Japanese language.
<General Overview>
This survey made it clear that, as of 2003, the
Japanese language is being taught in 127 countries
(strictly speaking, 120 countries and 7 regions).
Number of Educational Institutions 12,222
Number of Japanese-Language Teachers 33,124
Number of Learners of the Japanese Language 2,356,745

Between 1979, when the Japan Foundation began this
survey, and 2003, the number of educational
institutions, teachers, and learners increased by a
factor of 10.7, 8.1, and 18.5 respectively.

In comparison with the previous survey, which was
conducted in 1998, the number of institutions,
teachers, and learners increased by 11.8%, 20.0%, and
12.1%, respectively, over the last five years.

Just want to share it with you all and "hope more will join Japanese animeSIG 8) "

[windy_city]

What the point of this, more people should join anime SIG???
Just kidding!!

I think learning a new language is interesting and fun. It allows you to understand a culture better through you own perspective if you learn its language. For example if you read a book that is translated to English, you are reading from the translator?s perspective, the real meaning maybe lost when the book is translated. Same go for foreign language movie with subtitle.
Hope more people will learn another language, it is a good to equip yourself with another language!!

[luke]

let's learn C++ language!! you can understand the value of programs from the programmers' point of view .. like why the heck windows crashes all the time ... yay yay yatta yatta *dance dance dance* ... wheeee .... :lol: :lol: :lol:

[digimushu]

I thought windows is written in c#?

[ElansarGelmir]

I want to learn Japanese, French, Chinese, German..... A little too much, huh? Got to set my priorities... is learning Japanese easier compared to German or French?

[windy_city]

I want to learn Japanese, French, Chinese, German..... A little too much, huh? Got to set my priorities... is learning Japanese easier compared to German or French?

It should be easier than learning French.

It is tres dfficile (very difficult) to learn french (at least for me) haha.
:D

[ElansarGelmir]

It is tres dfficile (very difficult) to learn french (at least for me) haha.

Why do vous thinkz so?

i think japanese is kinda hard for the speaking part coz they speak really fast. hard to catch their articulations

[luke]

i think japanese is kinda hard for the speaking part coz they speak really fast. hard to catch their articulations
it's like when we were in standard three and tried to understand what macgyver was talking in TV .. now I'm sure some of us can listen to spoken english so well ... the same with any language ... if we don't know the language, no matter how slow the foreigners speak, we won't catch what words they are uttering .. I only started learning japanese one year ago but I think I already can understand some anime dialogues without the subtitles ...

まあ、日本語は難しそうだけです。勉強すればきっとやさしくなると思いますよ。
"Well, japanese only looks difficult. I think if you learn it, it will surely become easy."

[Schye]

I think Japanese will be easier to learn if you have already known Mandarin as most of the Japanese Kanji is same as Mandarin.
It will be better if you know Tamil too as its grammer is the same as Tamil.So if you know Tamil you can master it faster too (I think :wink: ...)

After all, practice makes perfect ... there is no short cut in learning languages.

By the way, i hope someone really looks into the link ...
It seems that the popularity of Msians who know Japanese are not that many compared to other countries, ability of speaking/communicating in Japanese will be a good asset in the future 8)

[ElansarGelmir]

aiyah... so many languages to take up. Uhmm... do Japanese borrow terms and words from other languages as well? IS it a derived language, since it shares the same as that of Mandarin?

[budakkerek]

my friend told me that she stimes cheat, esp when she doesnt know certain words in jap, she'd write using chinese characters, alter a bit here n there, pretending that she's writing in kanji LOL and the best thing is, her sensei would be like.."oh you clever gurl...you know kanji when most ppl cant even get it" LOL :lol: