Question
Aggiornato il
4 gen 2019
- Cinese tradizionale (Hong Kong)
- Cinese tradizionale (Taiwan)
-
Giapponese
-
Inglese (Regno Unito)
-
Inglese (Stati Uniti)
Domande Giappone
Is English widely used in Japan?
Is it Important to your career?
Is English widely used in Japan?
Is it Important to your career?
Is it Important to your career?
Risposte

Utente eliminato
Not at all. English is not commonly spoken in Japan. You might only need it if you’re working in an international firm.
- Paese o regione Giappone
Almost 100% of the Japanese living in Japan speak Japanese as their native tongue and almost 100% of their colleagues and customers are native Japanese speakers. No need to speak English at all, if they can speak other languages they may have options to work in/for foreign countries/companies though.
- Paese o regione Giappone
Reading and writing English would be important to some occupations like IT engineers, doctors, professors and so on.Because, they have to read English papers or sometimes write papers.
- Paese o regione Giappone
- Paese o regione Grecia
@chiui I've come across papers about machine learning and aerodynamics that were in English and have authors with Japanese looking names. Most of them were co-written with researchers from other countries though. Some electronics companies have global patents in English too.
- Paese o regione Giappone
- Paese o regione Grecia
- Paese o regione Giappone
- Paese o regione Grecia
@chiui It's not crucial, but it undeniably helps. There is a huge community of English speakers anyone can seek help from, with sites like stack overflow. IT engineers also have to be able to understand the documentation of tools and stay up to date with the the latest platforms and technologies of today.
I was mainly focusing on researchers on my previous post though.
- Paese o regione Giappone
@teotyrov Aren’t you talking about other engineers? “Patent”. This is a word barely used in the IT field.
If you have read through 100 job ads for IT engineers, you should have noticed none or just a few of them require English.
That person above tends to lie about things he doesn’t really know.
Leggi ulteriori commenti
- Paese o regione Giappone
Thanks for all the comments.
However, would I gain any benefits from it? Maybe something likes a higher salary, better offers, etc
However, would I gain any benefits from it? Maybe something likes a higher salary, better offers, etc
- Paese o regione Giappone
- Paese o regione Giappone
@teotyrov I totally agree with that, no matter what kind of knowledge, it's always good for us.
I just want to know the situation in Japan.
I just want to know the situation in Japan.
- Paese o regione Giappone
@chiui
Now I'm a university student in japan. Maybe it's too soon to consider about it but i would like to work in japan for a few years. That’s why i asked such kind of question.
I don't know if i good enough in Japanese... But i I've learned it for a couple years
Some professors told me that it would be tough to work in japan but i still want to try it...
Now I'm a university student in japan. Maybe it's too soon to consider about it but i would like to work in japan for a few years. That’s why i asked such kind of question.
I don't know if i good enough in Japanese... But i I've learned it for a couple years
Some professors told me that it would be tough to work in japan but i still want to try it...
- Paese o regione Giappone
@Yan_William If you can’t ask questions in Japanese here, you shouldn’t be fluent enough.
No companies would hire an interpreter for a rookie.
- Paese o regione Giappone
I apologise if you found any offences of this.
I aimed to collect the opinions for different groups, (locals, foreigners work in Japan, etc) and I consider maybe some of those people might not speak fluent Japanese. Thus, I used English instead of Japanese.
It might be true my Japanese is not fluent enough at this moment.
I just want to know if I can gain any benefits if I can speak fluent Japanese and English in Japan.
I aimed to collect the opinions for different groups, (locals, foreigners work in Japan, etc) and I consider maybe some of those people might not speak fluent Japanese. Thus, I used English instead of Japanese.
It might be true my Japanese is not fluent enough at this moment.
I just want to know if I can gain any benefits if I can speak fluent Japanese and English in Japan.
- Paese o regione Spagna
I saw this question many times in this Web and others. and the answers are always more or less the same. about the fact that English is not needed in Japan. and Japanese people speaks only Japanese. so when you find a Japanese that has fluency in English think that this person is in the top. I don't work or live in Japan. but I read and watch all I can about japan. by the way many people who can write English very well doesn't have speaking fluency in it. I study Japanese and my level is still low but this low level helped me much more than English when I went to Japan(as a tourist). 僕はスペイン人です。日本語が好きです。でも。ぜんぜん分かりません。I don't know anything.
0
likes
1
disagree
- Paese o regione Spagna
@hayabusa6797 what I know is more than what you think that I know but less than what I would want to know. I know that I don't know. I don't know anything.
- Paese o regione Giappone
- Paese o regione Spagna

[Novità] Ehi tu! Dico a te che stai imparando una lingua!
Sai come migliorare le tue abilità linguistiche❓ Basta far correggere ciò che scrivi da un madrelingua!
Con HiNative, puoi ricevere correzioni su ciò che scrivi da utenti madrelingua gratis ✍️✨.
Con HiNative, puoi ricevere correzioni su ciò che scrivi da utenti madrelingua gratis ✍️✨.
Registrazione
domande simili
-
英語は日本で広く使用されています?
RispostaNo
-
Do people know English well in Japan?
RispostaMost are horrible. Btw, if you're looking for a free guide i might be what you're looking for, as i'm a native English speaker.
-
Do a lot of people in Japan already know English?
RispostaOnly highly studious people. Many youtubers have conducted English speaking tests and many of these types of videos show Japanese people's En...
- Is it important to know Japanese to work in a Japanese company even if I know English well?
-
Do you think fluently speaking English, Japanese, and Korean would be useful when living in Japan?
RispostaVery useful
Domande suggerite
- Aplicaciones o sitios web para leer manga en su idioma original gratis
- what is the name "anime" that came the famous yamete kudasai ??
- On the Netflix show "Old Enough", I heard a song with the lyrics: "Shouganai deyo baby" What so...
- 「大会まであと10日を切っている」っていう言葉には「切る」が何の意味でしょうか、どうして「切っていた」という変型にするんでしょうか、よかったら教えてくだい
- ¿Cual es la diferencia entre ramen y sopa maru-chan ?
Previous question/ Next question