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by anthonj
21 days ago
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Some level of english is required in every country. And you are exposed to it quite frequently in a way or the other (which european country doest start teaching it from elementary school? ).
My uni required me to follow course in english and write and defend a thesis in English. You are exposed to english a lot.
And on top of that it's a simple lanuge. Try to lean polish, or chinese. Or german as a Japanese native.
Won't be that easy. |
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I never had English lessons in primary school (Germany), and as far as I am aware, English lessons in primary school are still not that common.
> You are exposed to english a lot.
This is not my experience.
> And on top of that it's a simple lanuge.
Getting some elementary, broken knowledge of English is not very hard (English is more forgiving here than German or Russian). Getting good in English is insanely hard (much harder than for many other languages like French).
> Try to lean polish, or chinese. [...] Won't be that easy.
For me, finding a (near-)native speaker for widespread languages would be rather easy:
Option 1: I work for an international company. Thus finding someone who is either native speaker or at least very good in the respective language would not be hard.
Option 2: You are aware of "superconnectors", i.e. the persons who know "everybody"? Well, I know a few of these people. Just give one of them a call: "Hey, do you know someone cool who speaks language X well and is willing to serve as a teacher for Y hours/week? For this, I am willing, for example, to teach this person programming or whatever this person wants."
The non-easy part is just finding the necessary time for learning the respective language.