Re: URL: Nova goes belly up in Japan.

Jim Breen wrote:

I see there is a debate going on in Italy about making English
a compulsory school subject (it isn't at present.) My experience in
Italy is that despite it not being compulsory in schools, English
competence, while low compared with Germany, the Netherlands, etc.,
is higher than in Japan, where it is compulsory.

I would describe them as equivalent. I had the occasional Italian tour
group stay in my hotel, and we always found it best to shift to mutually
broken Spanish to communicate. The Dutch do tend to do fairly well with
English, the only real exception being the group that was in school
during the Nazi occupation, when English instruction was not permitted.
KWW
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