Japan ranks 92nd in English proficiency, lowest ever: survey - eviltoast

Summary

Japan’s English proficiency ranking dropped to 92nd out of 116 countries, the lowest ever recorded.

The decline is attributed to stagnant English proficiency among young people, particularly due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Netherlands ranked first, followed by European countries, while the Philippines and Malaysia ranked 22nd and 26th, respectively.

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    1 month ago

    Brasil is higher than Japan?? It’s Japan that don’t care to learn English because they can do “everything” in their country without the need to know english?

    • Psythik@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Is it really that surprising? If you’ve ever played a video game before, you’d know that pretty much every Brazilian speaks English.