B2 – Upper intermediate
It’s no surprise that English has become the world’s language when it comes to business and learning English in companies is now the norm.
Click the title and read the article to know more about the company Rakuten and its journey with the English language.
Discussion Questions:
- Explain the reason why Japanese managers would like their employees to be able to speak in English. Do you agree with their logic?
- How do you feel about the whole experience of learning English?
- In the article, it said that “…it is humiliating for Japanese workers to speak English. It is thought of as a way of getting rid of unwanted workers.” What is your reaction to this?
- Aside from English, what other languages do you think are very useful to learn?
- How would you describe your country’s education of English in schools?
One reply on “Japanese Managers Tell Employees to Learn English”
Hi!
Japanese managers and companies want their staff to speak in english because nowadays in business it’s very important, most of all in internet companies.
I totally agree with this decision, because knowing english it’s very good for the professional develop of the person and for the dealing with other companies/users over the world. I don’t think that that rule was a way of getting rid of unwanted workers, I think that is an opportunity to improve personally and with the company.
Apart from english, I think that chinese would be an important option to learn, because nowadays there’s a big market developing there and there’s a great commerce with chinese companies.
Personally I think that all of us must learn english, most of all for our professional career and in our country the education is properly and in the last years I have seen more interest in teaching the language between the children.
By, bye!! ;-D