Do you know how long typical Japanese learns English? Now some school starts earlier than that, but officially, we start learning English from junior high school, 12 or 13 years old.
Thus, 3 years at junior high school and another 3 years at high school. Many people learn additional 4 years at university.
On the other hand, it is well known that Japanese English skill is bad especially, listening and speaking. I think that there are two major reasons.
The issue is number of consonants. Basically, there are only, a k s t n h m y r w g z d b p. the major issue here is that there are no distinction between "L" and "R", "B" and "V" and no "TH" sound.
Thus, Japanese doesn't have a circuit to distinguish another consonants. People says that such a circuit is established by age of three.
Thus, an order of Japanese sentence is
This is because that Japanese has a handicap born to be.
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