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.
America is the past, why learn the language? China is where the future is
Doesn’t matter if America is the past. English is the language the world has settled on as the lingua franca. Yes, there are advantages to dealing with China if you speak Mandarin, but good luck trying to raise your voice while dragging out every syllable and getting yourself understood anywhere outside of China.
“The world has settled on”. Can we do an English homework and rephrase this passive sentence into an active one?
Lets start with an English homework diving into WHY the passive voice is so bad in this particular case, that you felt the need to call it out in particular? There is nothing grammatically wrong with the passive voice, and it can be a valid stylistic choice. In this case, it was used because I as the author chose to emphasise the subject (English) as opposed to the responsible party (the world). The usual reasons to avoid passive voice do not seem to apply here. Would you care to explain why you decided to be a nitpicky asshole?
Why conflate English with the US? And English being easy to learn makes it the equivalent of the “common” language in fantasy universes.
Lemmy users do not like this take!
Americans on Lemmy aren’t a reasonable bunch