I worked late today. This morning, I went to AEON as usual as a morning activity. However, even though I have some tasks to do right now (the preparation for the presentation I'm going to do, reading Roald Dahl's book "Matilda" for the English Studying Club, and so on), I could find no motivation to enjoy those things. Finally, I just wasted this morning's precious free time. At about 11 am, I read an interesting newspaper article on the net through a user's post on Twitter.
It says that Japanese people's primal ability to use English has been decreasing by a survey. I also found that another user had pointed out that this survey must be so suspicious, and now I can't tell which side could be more correct. However, at least I can feel a certain power of logic from this article which let me think it "could" be true enough. Then, WHY can I believe that our skills (yes, we Japanese) in using English must be worse than others? And also, even if it could be true, what could be any matter?
As a Japanese guy who once adored various European or American countries (what a shame!), now I can feel that Japan must have several good aspects, and the Japanese language also has beautiful essences, as does English. The problem can be this: why should I move beyond the limitations of the Japanese language field? In other words, why should I move from the monolingual state to the bilingual state?
I also try to ask this; even though I could be a monolingual person, in this isle country I can live a peaceful life relatively smoothly because I can live a daily life without speaking English fluently/actually. Then, what can the motivation/incentive of learning English be? Any better jobs or a better life?
Of course, I'm never a pro critic/commentator. As an ordinary/nameless guy, I just want to tell my opinions about this; even though now I can enjoy daily life as a monolingual without causing trouble, I want to keep learning English because by that serial trial, I can enjoy building plenty of friendships/connections with others on Discord and other social media. However, I feel that my story (as I've written above) can sound too easy, or too free to follow.
